Wearable Plain-Text Communication Exposed Through Brute-Force, Bitdefender Finds

Dec. 11, 2014

Everything from SMS messages to Facebook or Google Hangouts chats are constantly being forwarded to your smartwatch. So all this communication should be safe, right? It turns out that, with a little ingenuity and some open-source tools, it’s actually easy to tap into smartwatch-smartphone communication and read everything in plain-text.