Researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design have recently discovered a family of 20 vulnerabilities that they have collectively labelled as BrakTooth. This affects more than 1,400 products based on 13 different Bluetooth devices from various major brands.

According to the researchers (Via PCMag), the security flaw has been confirmed to affect over 1,400 smartphones, laptops, keyboards, headphones, and other Bluetooth enabled devices. Although, the researchers claimed that this is just a low ball figure as “the BT stack is often shared across many products,” and that “it is highly probable that many other products (beyond the ≈1400 entries observed in Bluetooth listing) are affected by BrakTooth.”

This series of vulnerabilities can apparently be exploited to conduct denial of service (DoS) attacks and enable arbitrary code execution (ACE) on target devices. These DoS attacks can disrupt the victim’s Bluetooth connection or could even require Bluetooth connectivity to be manually restarted to function normally again. Furthermore, ACE can also be used to erase user data, disable wireless connectivity, or interact with other devices as well.

As of right now, BrakTooth is only capable of enabling ACE on the ESP32 system on chip (SoC) made by Espressif Systems. Although, these chips are commonly found in IoT products as well as industrial systems. The researchers noted that this SoC is so common that proof of concept exploit actually uses an ESP32 development kit to conduct attacks on target devices. At the moment, the researchers have informed the various top vendors of this exploit and certain companies have already released firmware patches to fix the vulnerabilities while others are investigating the issue.

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realme has already proven itself to be the fastest-growing smartphone brand this year. However, the company is yet to do that in the IoT(Internet of Things) segment. And if the list of products launched in 2020 weren’t enough, a report says it’s aiming for more.

Vice President, realme, and realme India CEO, Madhav Sheth has told to IANS(via Zee Business) that the company is looking to bring more than 100 AIoT and lifestyle products in 2021. These include the already explored TWS, Smart TVs, Smart Sockets in addition to newer ones like Smart Bulb, Trimmers.

Madhav adds that the TWS will extend to new generations of realme Buds Air, realme Buds Q, and newer editions of Smart TVs. If we recall, the company recently launched a Master Edition of the Buds Air Pro and a second-gen Buds(Buds Q2) is already on the radar of leaks. Looking at the market perspective, a recent counterpoint report shows realme has beaten popular JBL to occupy the Top-3 position(as of Q3 2020) in India.

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Coming back, Madhav says the company is finishing 2020 on a successful note with over 190,000 units of smart TVs and 2 million AIoT products sales during the Festive season. Besides, the company is no slouch in the smartwatch category either. From a nowhere to be seen brand towards the beginning to emerging as the No.1 Watch Brand in India, the company has seen it all.

That said, we are going to witness a multifaceted realme next year as per Madhav’s statement. In the runup to top the charts in every category, he says the company is planning to expand hybrid offline channels(eg. to Pharmacies) for products like Toothbrush, Suitcase.

Upon heavier demand, it is also considering to include Smart Speakers, Air Purifiers, Electric Juice Jar, ACs to the portfolio. Anyway, let’s wish the company good luck for a successful 2021 outing.

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Huawei has scheduled the Mate 20 series launch on October 26 in China. While everything is known about the three models (including the gaming-centric Mate 20 X) except for their official Chinese pricing, it looks like we’ll see more products at the event. The company’s official smart home weibo account has released four new teasers which give us a basic idea of the upcoming products.

From the released posters, it looks like the four products could be: smart speaker, air purifier, smart cameras and a smart door lock. Huawei may not have a huge portfolio of smart home products like Xiaomi but the company does offer products like smart routers. So, we could see some really interesting additions to the company’s IoT product range at the event.

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Mate 20 turned out to be one of the biggest launches of Huawei this year. The phone comes feature packed with things like the new Kirin 980 chipset, 6GB RAM, reverse wireless charging, and a beautiful design making for a well-balanced flagship smartphone of 2018. Despite its high price tag, the phone should be popular in its home country.

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