{"id":289002,"date":"2026-02-17T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289002\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:33:07","slug":"dji-says-yes-it-will-fix-its-other-romo-robovac-security-hole-within-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289002\/","title":{"rendered":"DJI says yes, it will fix its other Romo robovac security hole within weeks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted Feb 17, 2026 at 10:48 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>DJI says yes, it will fix its other Romo robovac security hole within weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In case you missed our story, DJI\u2019s first robovac launched with now-patched holes that could\u2019ve let hackers or even tinkerers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/879088\/dji-romo-hack-vulnerability-remote-control-camera-access-mqtt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">see inside your home<\/a> from a world away. DJI tells us it\u2019ll also address another vulnerability, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/879088\/dji-romo-hack-vulnerability-remote-control-camera-access-mqtt#:~:text=Another%20one%20is%20so%20bad%20I%20won%E2%80%99t%20describe%20it%20until%20DJI%20has%20more%20time%20to%20fix%20it.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we deemed too risky to disclose<\/a>, in the coming months. We\u2019ll let you know if it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tm39ws4\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/879088\/dji-romo-hack-vulnerability-remote-control-camera-access-mqtt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"x271pn0\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' 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