cameras

Cheap Video Doorbell Cams: Tools of Stalkers and Thieves
Richi Jennings | | Andoe, Anker, camera, camera hijacking, camera vulnerability, cameras, CCTV camera, CCTV cameras, Consumer IoT, Consumer Reports, Doorbell Camera, Eken, enshittification, Eufy, Fishbot, Gemee, hacked Wi-FI, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, internet-enabled cameras, iot, IoT camera, IoT security camera, IP surveillance cameras, ipcamera, Luckwolf, Rakeblue, Ring Camera, Ring Doorbell, safe wifi, SB Blogwatch, Sears, SHEIN, The ‘S’ in IoT stands for Security, Tuck, unsecure Wi-FI, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi hacking, Wi-Fi networks, wi-fi security, Wyze
EKEN IoT FAIL: Amazon, Sears and Shein still sell security swerving stuff ...
Security Boulevard

ALERT: Thieves❤️Wi-Fi Camera Jammers
Richi Jennings | | camera, camera hijacking, camera vulnerability, cameras, CCTV camera, CCTV cameras, Consumer IoT, hacked Wi-FI, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, internet-enabled cameras, iot, IoT camera, IoT security camera, IP surveillance cameras, ipcamera, Ring Camera, safe wifi, SB Blogwatch, unsecure Wi-FI, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi hacking, Wi-Fi networks, wi-fi security
I❤️POE: Does your home security need a rethink? Wireless cameras are kinda useless, say cops ...
Security Boulevard
Power LED Side-Channel Attack
This is a clever new side-channel attack: The first attack uses an Internet-connected surveillance camera to take a high-speed video of the power LED on a smart card reader—or of an attached ...
Recovering Passwords by Measuring Residual Heat
Researchers have used thermal cameras and ML guessing techniques to recover passwords from measuring the residual heat left by fingers on keyboards. From the abstract: We detail the implementation of ThermoSecure and ...
Ring Gives Videos to Police without a Warrant or User Consent
Amazon has revealed that it gives police videos from its Ring doorbells without a warrant and without user consent. Ring recently revealed how often the answer to that question has been yes ...
San Francisco Police Want Real-Time Access to Private Surveillance Cameras
Surely no one could have predicted this: The new proposal—championed by Mayor London Breed after November’s wild weekend of orchestrated burglaries and theft in the San Francisco Bay Area—would authorize the police ...

Twitter Hack Lessons Learned, TikTok Ban, Rite Aid Facial Recognition Cameras
Tom Eston | | cameras, Cybersecurity, Digital Privacy, Episodes, facial recognition, Hacking, Podcast, Privacy, Rite Aid, surveillance, TikTok, Twitter, Weekly Edition
In episode 133 for August 10th 2020: What we can learn from the big Twitter hack, why everyone is trying to ban TikTok, and pharmacy chain Rite Aid’s use of facial recognition ...
Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate
Bruce Schneier | | cameras, essays, facerecognition, identification, lawenforcement, laws, Privacy, smartphones, surveillance
Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In May of last year, San Francisco banned facial recognition; the neighboring city of Oakland soon followed, as did Somerville ...
Police Surveillance Tools from Special Services Group
Bruce Schneier | | cameras, eavesdropping, Espionage, foia, lawenforcement, police, Privacy, surveillance
Special Services Group, a company that sells surveillance tools to the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other US government agencies, has had its secret sales brochure published. Motherboard received the brochure as part ...
Zoom Vulnerability
The Zoom conferencing app has a vulnerability that allows someone to remotely take over the computer's camera. It's a bad vulnerability, made worse by the fact that it remains even if you ...