How To Hack A Garage Door Opener

Please note we have left some aspects out of the video for the protection of the people.

How to hack a garage door opener.

A garage door hack requires only your garage door opener code to get inside. How to hack any garage door. It s important that you understand that this may happen to you as well. Burglars don t need to do any physical damage to the door to get inside.

The first electric garage door opener was introduced in 1926 but didn t gain in popularity until after world war ii. Again with older fixed code openers he modified the im me messaging device to identify the correct code in under 10 seconds. Our demonstration is a proof of concept of what could be done if not properly protected by a rolling encryption coded garage door opener. The garage door is a vulnerable point of entry for criminals looking to steal your valuable belongings.

This is much simpler than you may think. We know this is cause for much concern. This is the most secure form of garage door opening technology and very difficult. Smart garage door openers can be hacked too through the wifi network if it has weak security attributes.

This can be done with just a few simple household items and a little knowledge. More sophisticated ones that use rolling codes make it harder to hack but it is still possible. Older garage door openers use a fixed code which makes it incredibly easy. Lately you can see a lot of articles and reports circulating on the web that mentions the fact that a garage door equipped with an electric door opener can be opened with a hack kid toy that s right.

Someone can hack your garage door in 10 seconds. Before we get into the details of the vulnerability let s explain a bit about how automatic garage door openers developed. How garage door openers work. A security expert named samy kamkar discovered that he could hack his garage door opener using a readily available child s toy.