CBR rounds up five vulnerabilities already found in Google Glass by hackers just a week after Google made the high-tech specs available to the entire public for one day.
1. Jailbreaking
Google Glass wearers could be exposed to jailbreaking techniques, which would allow hackers to gain full access of the headset’s operating system.
"If you jailbreak a device you then run everything as the administrative user versus just a standard user, which gives you a much wider access to the underlining hardware and software characteristics of the platform," explained Lawrence Pingree, a research director and analyst of security technologies at Gartner.
He told CBR: "If you go to a meeting wearing your Google Glass, and a hacker jail breaks a device and malware happens to get on the device, it brings a whole new level to spying."
Jay Freeman, a technology consultant, also known as Saurik, already used an exploit in Android, developed by a hacker called Bin4ry, to gain root access into a version of Google Glass in 2013.
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"Once the attacker has root on your Glass, they have much more power than if they had access to your phone or even your computer: they have control over a camera and a microphone that are attached to your head," he wrote in a blog.
"A bugged Glass doesn’t just watch your every move: it watches everything you are looking at (intentionally or furtively) and hears everything you do."
