FAIRFAX, Va., June 9 -- George Mason University issued the following news release:
Roombas have become a familiar part of everyday life, quietly navigating living rooms and kitchens. But behind that convenience is a complex system of sensors, algorithms, and data processing-and, as a group of George Mason University cyber security engineering (CYSE) students-Finn Schaefer, Ryan Lam, Sidarth Kumar, Jimmy Tram, and Neil Sharma-discovered, a surprising vulnerability. Their capstone project research was accepted for presentation at one of the most prestigious venues for hardware-based security research, the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST).
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