Another article has been written about security vulnerabilities found in the Nest IoT thermostat, and yet a more fundamental issue may still be open to exploits. Researchers at the University of Florida found that Nest updates itself over an HTTP (non-encrypted) connection. Read this article for more information https://goo.gl/ChZbWK
Researchers at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) found security vulnerabilities in many of the most popular IoT devices that they looked at, including Google's Nest Thermostat.