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Multiple Vulnerabilities found in Wink and Insteon Systems

Rapid 7 reported that they detected major vulnerabilities in the Wink and Insteon Smart Hub systems.

This is of particular concern to me as a Wink hub user. The Wink Android app was storing sensitive information insecurely, which has now been patched.

The other vulnerability is apparently being fixed. The Wink API does not revoke authentication tokens when you log out, and new tokens do not invalidate the use of old tokens.

I’ve long been concerned about the long term health of Wink. It’s been with two different owners and it is hard to understand where it might go. And hubs in general might go away in favor of wifi or bluetooth as a standard over things like zigbee and z-wave.

But the fact they fixed these issues at least suggests that they plan to move forward.

Published on September 28, 2017

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