Star Wars toy has vulnerable firmware

I’ve been avoiding news on IoT security, since the New Year has all the news sites full of IoT predictions, most related to security concerns…

Since Star Wars is topical again, there’s a firmware vulnerability in the new movie’s droid toy:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/08/star_wars_iot_bb8_toy_vuln/

https://www.pentestpartners.com/blog/star-wars-bb-8-iot-toy-awesome-fun-but-can-it-be-turned-to-the-dark-side-with-this-vulnerability/