[Responsibility2nd]

From last week.

Hacker Uses Nest Camera to Broadcast Hoax Nuke Alert
security week ^ | 1/23/2019 | AFP

“5 minutes of sheer terror”: Hackers infiltrate East Bay family’s Nest surveillance camera (tr)
Mercury News ^ | 1/21/2019 | Matthia Gafni

[CaptainK]

This is why I won't bring any of this security crap into my home.

Or Alexa.

Or anything that can hear or see or take commands from me.

[BipolarBob]

Open the pod bay doors, Alexa.

[Paladin2]

Apple stuff "just always works^TM"

[bgill]

Another hacked baby monitor.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Reports on this incident have emphasized that Nest security wasn’t compromised. This Nest owner had an insecure password that he used at multiple sites - the hackers used that insecure password retrieved elsewhere to access his in-house equipment.

[-YYZ-]

Newsflash: if you’re using IP-connected devices that you can access from outside the home, chances are others can access it from outside your home, too. Especially if you haven’t changed the default passwords (or the manufacturer hasn’t left active backdoor passwords enabled).

I have been working in technology for nearly 30 years, and it only makes me leery of having any of this IOT stuff in my house. My TV has to be connected to the internets if I want to use the smart apps, but it doesn’t have a camera.

[\/\/ayne]

I wonder if they had default passwords.

[bigbob]

IOIT

Internet Of Invasive Things

[Sooth2222]

The hacker hurled obscenities at them, including the N-word, Sud said. "It was terrifying," his wife Jessica Sud told WBBM-TV.

Chicago? Was the hacker wearing a MAGA hat and carrying a bottle of bleach?

[YogicCowboy]

Smart devices: maybe a wee bit too smart.

[Rebelbase]