If you are a victim of high-profile recent obsession with hoverboards, you should think about security to them. Specialists discovered several key vulnerabilities in new Ninebot of Segway miniPRO, which can be used by hackers to remotely take complete control of the machine.
Ninebot is high self-balancing two-wheeled electric scooter, which makes hands-free. The interesting thing about it is that it can be controlled by a smartphone application remotely.
The software allows fans to adjust lights to perform diagnostics of the scooter, to enable or disable the alarm, and even to moving or stopped. The main security problem is unencrypted communication between the scooter and application. This allows the attacker to attack by traditional methods such as the famous Man-in-the-middle ( MitM) or "man in the middle". This is a form of interception of messages between communicating their machines. The attacker creates independent connections with the victims, becoming the intermediary of their relationship. Victims do not know they do not communicate directly with each other.