A 24 year old South Carolina mom, Jamie Summitt, got a rather rude lesson in cyber security. She purchased a “smart” baby monitor that she could watch from her equally smart phone, only to wake up one day to find the baby monitor pointed at her. She didn’t think much about that until she watched […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have said before, the Internet of Things is going to be a bit of a security ‘challenge’. Here is just one simple example. The security company Rapid7 analyzed a number of home video baby monitors. You know, the kind where you can put a monitor in the bedroom and you or the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Michigan woman is suing a police officer who used the baby monitor app on her fiance’s cell phone that he confiscated when the fiance was arrested, to spy on her while she was nude and breastfeeding her son. Note that nothing has been proved yet, so this is only claims and allegations, but it points […]
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