A short summary digest of key smart home highlights from Linkdhome and the wider industry for the month of October 2025.

A short summary digest of key smart home highlights from Linkdhome and the wider industry for the month of August 2025.

A short summary digest of key smart home highlights from Linkdhome and the wider industry for the month of June 2025.

Cheap consumer camera products are always a risky proposition when it comes to privacy. Eken video doorbells show us just how bad things can get when companies don’t care.

Some fixable design flaws in the WiFi standard, coupled with a bunch of implementation issues, means that virtually all WiFi devices are at risk.

Ring has been under increasing scrutiny for their commitment to privacy for a while. This new feature throws users a bone.

While not necessarily building a smart home, many families now have connected TVs and media players, and increasingly are opting for connected cameras. Unfortunately these cameras are proving to be the greatest weak point in home networks.

For users of HomeKit in Australia and New Zealand, smart power outlet options have been pretty scarce. Now Australian electrical supplier HPM is bringing a range of smart in-wall devices through it’s parent’s ownership of smart device company Netatmo.

The Mirai worm is arguably the most well known as the source of massive attacks in the past. Things have been quiet on that front in the recent past, but research from Palo Alto networks has uncovered a new variant of both the Mirai and Gafgyt worm families that expand their attack profile.

Smart home hubs are growing in popularity, largely through the necessity of tying dozens of disparate devices together in the home. Logitech’s offering, the Harmony Hub, is a popular choice which has been examined by security firm Tenable and found lacking.

Assuming you have adequate WiFi and Bluetooth coverage for your devices, HomeKit users have had smooth sailing for a year. However, with the release of iOS 12, multiple users have reported a plethora of issues, most notably with Bluetooth devices.

Using any connected camera products comes with an unstated element of risk, and those of us with some sense of the inherent risks of connected devices deploy them with that in mind. Even so, we tend to hope that the service provider treats our video content with the appropriate level of encryption and privacy controls. 

Sometimes even the respected players can stumble. If your Sonos (or Bose) speaker has been acting weird lately, researchers at Trend Micro may have found the answer.

After reading up on the various tech coverage of the last couple of weeks, things have settled down somewhat. We've gone through the usual phases of "ZOMG everything is broken!", through "It's bad, but not as bad as we thought" and now we've landed on "OK, we can work with this".

When device makers are unable, or unwilling, to put the effort into the security of consumer networking products, innocent people are left exposed to the very real threat of personal and financial damage. See how D-Link is doing things wrong.

Analysis of U-Verse modem firmware has revealed a slew of major vulnerabilities in what can only be called a security house of horrors for AT&T customers. The exposure is glaring and complete that all AT&T customers need to take action immediately. Read on to see just how bad things are.

In a case of unbelievably bad security design, researchers at Bitdefender have exposed a range of cheap security cameras in a perfect case study of how to do IoT wrong, and why poor device security is a major problem.

Following on from the Floodlight Cam product is a new range of smaller LED-lit security cameras intended to plug gaps in the coverage of any installed Floodlight Cams you might have.

Two new products in the Ring doorbell lineup were announced this month. But if you already have a Ring Video Doorbell, there's nothing to get too excited about.

IP Cameras have been particularly bad citizens, with exposed Telnet ports and poor privacy controls have gained some high profile attention in the past. Scandinavian Security company F-Secure has now turned it's attention to popular home security models made by Foscam.