Hello everyone,
I recently read some good news coming out of Krebs on Security. It talks about two men arrested recently for swatting victims and using their ring cameras to taunt police and cause trouble.
Should we really be worried about hacked cameras when a company like Anker can lie about their privacy practices?
blog post leading to article and blog post leading to podcast 124 of tsb
When you listen to podcast 124, you’ll need the first hour where we talk about this in our news section.
Let me say that I’m happy that there may be justice that will come from this article titled Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims. While swatting is not necessarily a good thing on its own, these suspects taunted police through the hacked cameras which made it much more dangerous in my opinion.
We’ve got plenty of blog posts covering swatting but it is still going on.
This blog post links to an article where the swatter only gets 1 year in jail for doing the crime. This blog post talks about me reading a book and learning that a blind swatter got 135 months in jail. That’s roughly 11 years, and I understand this individual is out.
In one of the other linked articles, the actor only got 5 years. There’s plenty to read on the Krebs article linked here, including that one of the suspects was bragging on discord, another social media platform.
Both suspects were in different parts of the United States, says the article.
Again, we want to bring to you what’s going on in this industry, and swatting, while not as big as ransomware, can still be a problem.
Again, the article is titled Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims and it comes from Krebs on Security.
I’d suggest a read, learn how you can make sure your camera as safe as possible, and learn. Only have the video for you, not for everyone else to see or commandeer.
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