In just the last week, a number of disturbing Ring hack videos have surfaced online and the company is now investigating further to protect its devices and customers.
The company has a lot of ground to cover before it regains the trust of 28-year-old Tania Amador.
She and her boyfriend pay Ring an annual fee of $100 to monitor their home and to notify police if anything suspicious is captured on camera.
"I was asleep and our Ring alarm was going off like an intruder had entered our home," Amador said. "Then we heard a voice coming from our camera."
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How to protect your brokerage account from email scams
The complaint against Parfionovas, who was extradited to the U.S. from Ukraine on Nov. 21, reads like a list of do's and don'ts for protecting your accounts from one of the most common and costliest types of wire fraud. Here's what you need to know.
Know your advisors well. Work face to face or over the phone with financial advisors who you know and trust, and communicate to them that you are concerned about cybercrimes and fraud.
These systems aren't perfect. Some cybercriminals have found ways around even two-factor authentication using mobile devices. But for most individuals, this will be enough to stop most types of wire fraud.
'I can see you': Georgia Ring customers say stranger hacked camera
A Brookhaven couple recently installed a security camera to keep an eye on their new puppy, but it has offered them anything but peace of mind.
The couple believes a stranger hacked into their Ring camera system Monday night to harass them. They shared the video with Channel 2 Action News as a warning to other Ring users.
The woman, who did not want to be identified, told the news station she had just put the puppy in a crate and laid down for the night when she heard a cough come from the camera in her bedroom. A blue light indicated that someone had tapped into the video feed.
Hackers in Finland Test 5G Networks, Devices in Security Exercise - WSJ
Cybersecurity researchers gathered Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 in Oulu, a city of about 200,000 in northern Finland, for the competition. The test was organized by Finland-based Nokia Corp. and Sweden-based Ericsson AB, two major suppliers of equipment used in 5G networks, the Finnish government and the University of Oulu.
The competition was the first 5G security test that was open to independent hackers, said Sauli Pahlman, head of business development at Finland's National Cyber Security Centre.
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Boston cybersecurity competition turns students into hackers for a day - News @ Northeastern
It would be alarmingly easy for a hacker to steal your private information starting simply with your Instagram selfies and connecting them to your online shopping.
That's what Nithin Gangadharan, a master's student of computer science at Northeastern, was trying to do on a recent Wednesday in a programming lab. So to speak: It was all part of a hacking competition for students attending universities in Boston.
Gangadharan, who won third place that day, was part of the group of Northeastern students who dominated the competition by taking the top five spots.
Family says hackers accessed a Ring camera in their 8-year-old daughter's room
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - It's chilling video from inside a children's room in one Desoto County home.
The Ring camera was only up for four days in the girls' room before the family says someone found a way to manipulate it, turning the security device into a room of horror.
"I did a lot of research on these before I got them. You know, I really felt like it was safe," said Ashley LeMay.
The camera was supposed to add a level of protection, a way for LeMay to keep an eye on her three daughters and seem close by while working her overnight nurse shifts.
North Korean Hackers Use New TrickBot Module - Infosecurity Magazine
North Korea’s infamous Lazarus Group has been using a new stealth module developed by the group behind TrickBot for covert data theft, according to new research.
The Anchor module is a framework of tools designed “for targeted data extraction from secure environments and long-term persistency,” according to SentinelOne .
It includes memory scrapers, POS malware, backdoor installers and submodules enabling lateral movement, among other capabilities.
'I can see you in bed. Wake up!' Woman says stranger hacked Ring camera
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A Brookhaven couple is sharing chilling video of the moment they say a stranger hacked into their Ring security camera.
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The woman, who asked not to be identified, said she and her boyfriend installed the camera, so they could keep a close eye on their dog Beau while they're at work.
"I was laying there and had just put him in his crate, and I hear a cough over the Ring camera," the woman said. "I see the blue light come on, so I text my boyfriend saying, 'Why are you watching?' We're laying down, and we're about to go to sleep, and he's like, 'What are you talking about?'"
Happening on Twitter
"Very scary to hear a threat shouted over the camera for a ransom," Tania Amador said. "The fact that the person wa… https://t.co/8jolL6zXTY wfaa (from Dallas, TX) Thu Dec 12 04:24:03 +0000 2019
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