![]() Someone with access can hear conversations and watch people, potentially without alerting the victims that they are being spied on. Through an issue in the way a Ring-related app functions, Gizmodo found these cameras are installed all across the country. Some customers install these cameras in their bedrooms or those of their children. Rather than a username and password protecting messages or snippets of personal information, such as with, say, a video game account, breaking into a Ring account can grant access to exceptionally intimate and private parts of someone's life and potentially puts their physical security at risk. But rather than implementing its own safeguards, Ring is putting this onus on users to deploy security best practices time and time again we've seen that people using mass-market consumer devices aren't going to know or implement robust security measures at all times.Ī Ring account is not a normal online account. ![]() To be clear, a user who decides to use a unique password on their Ring device and two-factor authentication is going to be safer than one who is reusing previously hacked credentials from another website. As a precaution, we highly encourage all Ring users to follow security best practices to ensure your Ring account stays secure," it said. ![]() "Customer trust is important to us, and we take the security of our devices and service extremely seriously. In response to the hacks, Ring put much of the blame for these hacks on its users in a blog post Thursday. Motherboard found hackers have made dedicated software for more swiftly gaining access to Ring cameras by churning through previously compromised email addresses and passwords, and that some hackers were live-streaming the Ring abuse on their own so-called podcast dubbed "NulledCast." In one case a hacker taunted a child in Mississippi, in another someone hurled racist insults at a Florida family. Last week a wave of local media reports found hackers harassed people through Ring devices. My colleagues were only able to access my Ring camera because they had the relevant email address and password, but Amazon-owned home security company Ring is not doing enough to stop hackers breaking into customer accounts, and in turn, their cameras, according to multiple cybersecurity experts, people who write tools to break into accounts, and Motherboard's own analysis with a Ring camera it bought to test the company's security protections. But I still couldn't shake the feeling of someone may be tuning in. ![]() The blue light which signals someone is watching the camera feed faded away. "Joe can you tell I'm watching you type," they added in a Slack message. ![]()
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