Data moving between your smartwatch and phone can be easily stolen

While we have been getting quite a bit of good news today when it comes to wearables, and specifically the Android 5.0 Lollipop update coming to Android Wear smartwatches, there is also some bad news to pass along. It turns out that the data moving between your smartwatch and smartphone is not secured very well, and can be easily stolen.

The exploit was recently proven by Bitdefender using a Samsung Gear Live and a Google Nexus 4 running a preview version of Android 5.0. The exploit gains access, because Bluetooth's PIN number pairing method is easily overcome by a brute force ...



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