The Cybersecurity of Headsets

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
2 min readMar 3, 2023

For video sessions, I don’t like wearing audio headsets, and which enclose both ears. So this is the device I bought:

It is a great headset, and you can even connect it to multiple computers at the same time. But, what about its cybersecurity? Well, it fails completely, and shows some of the weakest security I have seen for the connection of devices to your machine. For this, we need to look at the digital…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.