Spying on and Talking to 8 Yr. Old Through a Ring Security Camera - Scary

[Hank77]

A Mississippi mom is warning parents everywhere after someone hacked her Ring surveillance cameras in her daughter’s bedroom and talked to her.

Watch the video.

I saw on the news that the same thing has happened with the outside doorbell surveillance product.
It seems there are lots of problems with smart electronic products.

Concerned mom warns about Ring surveillance cameras after hacker taunted daughter

 

[Sketcher]

In a statement responding to LeMay's incident, Ring said that "while [they] are still investigating this issue, [they] are able to confirm this incident is in no way related to a breach or compromise of Ring's security."

How can they confirm that it wasn't a security breach or compromise if they are still investigating the issue? Besides, when people do get hacked, most of the time it is through an exploit they had not previously considered to be a serious threat, or considered at all. The most they can confirm - to be extremely generous - is that the systems they know to check did not show signs of breach or compromise. This doesn't mean there aren't loopholes in those systems they don't know about, or there wasn't an exploit beyond the scope of those systems entirely.

 

[Albion]

There are ways to minimize this problem, but people are going to have to start holding back on putting everything about themselves onto all the electronic devices that are being produced these days, don't you think?

 

[timothyu]

Government ok. Creepy kid hacker, not so.

 

[Sketcher]

There are ways to minimize this problem, but people are going to have to start holding back on putting everything about themselves onto all the electronic devices that are being produced these days, don't you think?

It seems parents can't win these days. Kidnapping and human trafficking is a serious problem that has become more public and deserves serious attention. Since it's more visible, people want to find more ways to protect their kids. Put up cameras in your home to scare off and help catch intruders, and people can hack them and use them to spy on your family. Take the cameras away, and you're accepting more risk for your family. Put bars in the kid's windows to keep intruders out, and passersby that see them think you're trafficking kids. Don't put them up, and you're accepting more risk for your family. Etc.

 

[Albion]

How about Siri? Do you think we could maybe stick with a print directory instead of installing a listening device in our living rooms to answer the most trivial of questions? Or doing without the ability to do all of our banking online?

 

[Sketcher]

How about Siri? Do you think we could maybe stick with a print directory instead of installing a listening device in our living rooms? Or doing all of our banking online?

There's definite value in reducing your attack surface. I'm not going to say that online banking isn't safe if you actually know what you're doing.

 

[redleghunter]

There are ways to minimize this problem, but people are going to have to start holding back on putting everything about themselves onto all the electronic devices that are being produced these days, don't you think?

Indeed. We have home security vendors knock on the door from time to time. Each time they are greeted by my personal home security system named Molly-Penny 2.0. The man obviously backed up 7-10 steps as I answered the door and Molly and Penny gave him a dressing down. I introduced him to my reliable 24/7 system and said “I’m good.”