Comcast's Xfinity home alarms can be disabled by wireless jammers

And you thought its cable service was bad…

Shaun Nichols

Comcast’s wireless home alarm systems can be trivially jammed, rendering them useless and allowing burglars to slip in undetected.

By flooding the airwaves around an Xfinity Home Security System with network deauthentication frames, crooks can prevent intrusion sensors from sending data to the base station in the customer’s house or apartment. This means the alarm system is cut off from its sensors, which may have detected a break-in.

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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/

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