GoPro rides into Tour de France 2016 with new security faux pas

Action video camera vendor GoPro has announced that it is riding into the Tour de France with a promotional video to celebrate being named the official camera of the world's largest annual sporting event with a worldwide television audience of some 4 billion people, but not before the BBC reported how GoPro cameras could be used to spy on their owners. But it gets worse for GoPro, as now Pen Test Partners has also explained in a blog posting how the GoPro Studio editing software was making update requests using an unencrypted HTTP connection which could enable an attacker on public Wi-Fi to inject a potential fake malicious download code update instead. "It's fairly easy to add malicious code into pre-existing binaries and therefore we could abuse this to introduce backdoors to the victim whilst also letting them update their GoPro Studio software at the same time" the post warns.