Comcast Xfinity's Home Security System Is Easy To Disable, Claim Researchers

The cable giant says it is looking into claims that the jamming system's wireless signals disconnect intrusion sensors from hub.

Cable providers want to do more than just service the dumb pipe that shuttles information and content to and from your home. One way of expanding their reach is to provide online home automation and home security systems, as cable giant Comcast does with its wireless Xfinity Home offering. But that system is apparently easy to undermine, reports cybersecurity firm Rapid7, which claims that it had difficulty reaching Comcast to alert it to the vulnerability. Comcast says it is looking into the claims, adding that Rapid7 didn't make much of an effort to alert it to the purported vulnerability.

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