Exploring Hardware Vulnerabilities in Smartwatch Security: A Comprehensive Study

Smartwatches have gained widespread adoption across the world. In today’s day and age, smartwatches come with the integration of advanced sensors as well as computing and connectivity modules that provide users with convenience, but at the same time, they also increase the level of security problems associated with such complex systems. This paper focuses on hardware-related flaws and vulnerabilities that a typical smartwatch may come with which can lead to compromised device performance, loss of user data privacy, and breach of integrity. Building on case studies, the study classifies and describes hardware vulnerabilities into different severity ratings. The findings are intended to be useful to researchers, developers and individuals to diagnose critical hardware weaknesses and help create a strong hardware security measure.