LoRaWAN networks are spreading but security researchers say beware

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IOActive security researchers say LoRaWAN networks are vulnerable to cyber-attacks despite boastful claims about the protocol’s security features.
Security experts have published a report today warning that the new and fast-rising LoRaWAN technology is vulnerable to cyberattacks and misconfigurations, despite claims of improved security rooted in the protocol’s use of two layers of encryption.
LoRaWAN stands for “Long Range Wide Area Network.” It is a radio-based technology that works on top of the proprietary LoRa protocol.
The LoRa protocol was developed to allow companies to connect battery-powered or other low-powered devices to the internet via a wireless connection.
LoRaWAN takes the LoRa protocol and allows devices spread across a large geographical area to wirelessly connect to the internet via radio waves.
LoRaWAN is particularly popular with developers of Internet of Things devices.
Previously, to connect an IoT or other smart device to the internet, companies had to connect the IoT device to their private internet Wi-Fi network or devices had to ship with a SIM card, allowing the device to use a cellular network to report back to a command server.
An IoT device with a LoRaWAN client will broadcast data via radio waves to a nearby LoRaWAN gateway (in most cases, an antenna).
For example, smart parking, smart lighting, traffic management, or weather monitoring devices across a “smart city” use LoRaWAN to report to a central data collection station.
Due to this low cost approach, LoRaWAN networks are also often used across industrial installations (to report readings from different sensors or SCADA equipment), smart homes (to report alarms, gunshot detections, or home automation tasks across neighborhoods or cities), smart hospitals, smart crop fields, and so on

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