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Report: Thieves Can Hack and Disable Your Home Alarm System | WIRED

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STIX ID: report--8643addf-678a-5260-8020-d080beb531f2

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2014-07-23

Date Updated: 2026-05-08

Author: Paul Roberts

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Research reported by Wired reveals that common consumer home alarm systems from vendors such as ADT, Vivint and Swann use unencrypted, unauthenticated radio communications between sensors and control panels, permitting attackers to intercept signals, perform replay attacks, or jam transmissions to disable alarms or trigger false alarms—weaknesses demonstrated independently by researchers Logan Lamb and Silvio Cesare.

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