Google Nest ’ s Dropcam , Dropcam Pro , Nest Cam Outdoor and Nest Cam Indoor security cameras can be easily disabled by an attacker that ’ s in their Bluetooth range , a security researcher has found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . The vulnerabilities are present in Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the latest firmware version running on the devices ( v5.2.1 ) . They were discovered Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by researcher Jason Doyle last fall , and their existence responsibly disclosed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability to Google , but have still not been patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability . The first two flaws can be triggered and lead to a buffer overflow condition if the attacker sends to the camera a too-long Wi-Fi SSID parameter or a long encrypted password parameter , respectively . That ’ s easy to do as Bluetooth is never disabled after the initial setup of the cameras , and attackers ( e.g . burglars ) can usually come close enough to them to perform the attack . Triggering one of these flaws will make the devices crash and reboot . The third flaw is a bit more serious , as it allows the attacker to force the camera to temporarily disconnect from the wireless network to which it is connected by supplying it a new SSID to connect to . If that particular SSID does not exist , the camera drops its attempt to associate with it and return to the original Wi-Fi network , but the whole process can last from 60 to 90 seconds , during which the camera won ’ t be recording . Unfortunately , Bluetooth can ’ t be disabled on these cameras , so there is little users can do to minimize this particular risk . Nest has apparently already prepared Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a patch but hasn’t pushed it out Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability yet . It is supposedly scheduled to be released Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability soon , but no definite date has been offered