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How To Protect Your Wyze Account After The Recent Data Breach
A recent security breach has leaked the information of over 2.4 million Wyze security camera users. The compromised database was left unsecured and publically accessible, and it appears that the information was being collected and stored by the Alibaba cloud computing company in China.
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How To Keep Your Ring Cameras Safe From The Latest Hacks
1If you own a Ring camera and you’ve seen headlines like Vice’s “How Hackers Are Breaking Into Ring Cameras,” you’re undoubtedly a bit nervous. Has someone broken into your own home setup? Are they watching you? Your pets? Your kids?
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If You Use Amazon’s Ring Doorbell Devices, Change Your Wi-Fi Password
If you’re using one of Amazon’s Ring doorbell devices, you should change your home Wi-Fi network password immediately. According to Techcrunch, Ring doorbell devices were sharing Wi-Fi passwords as cleartext—unencrypted text data, essentially—with users’ smartphones during setup. This leaves home networks and any devices connected to them vulnerable to exploitation by hackers or really anyone…
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Are You Morally Obligated To Tell House Guests About Your Smart Devices?
Should you ever tell someone that you’ve stashed a smart speaker, camera, or display in your home somewhere? If the person lives with you, absolutely. If you’re having some friends over, though, is this overkill? Do you have a responsibility to let people know, or are you making a mountain out of a (smart) molehill?