This Halloween, a cheap LED party mask could do more than make you glow — it might let a stranger a few yards away swap your grin for a fox, a pumpkin, or whatever image they please. Security researchers at Bishop Fox have turned a seasonal gadget into a case study in how anecdotally safe — but technically sloppy — consumer electronics can become a live demo of insecure-by-design Internet-of-Things. Their work shows that numerous Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) LED masks, many of which are...
