The Hacker In My Ring Camera: A Tale of Trolls And A Podcast

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Imagine installing security cameras in your house to protect your family. Then one day those cameras start talking to you. Trolling you, in fact.

After last week when the news broke that Amazon’s super sketchy security camera company Ring, had its products compromised, Motherboard got even more scoop: There’s a livestream-podcast over a Discord channel where hackers take over people's Ring cameras and use their speakers to troll its owners in the comfort of their own homes.

Then Motherboard tested the security of Ring and found, well, Ring accounts are lacking basic security measures.

On this week’s CYBER we have our reporter Joseph Cox, who broke the stories, to tell us more.

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0:00.0	It's got the code it's going to launch.
0:10.7	It's a unit system.
0:13.2	I know this.
0:15.1	It's all the files of the whole park.
0:17.3	It tells her everything.
0:19.1	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.8	Eagle one.
0:22.6	The package is being delivered.
0:24.7	Imagine installing security cameras in your house to protect your family.
0:28.8	Then one day those cameras start talking to you,
0:31.6	trolling you, actually.
0:33.4	After last week when news broke that Amazon's super sketchy security camera company,
0:37.8	Ring,
0:39.5	had its products compromised.
0:41.2	We got even more scoop.
0:45.5	There's a live stream podcast where hackers take over people's ring smart home cameras and use their speakers to troll its owners in the comfort of their own homes.
0:51.1	Joseph Cox, our motherboard reporter extraordinaire, broke the story and he's here to tell us more.
0:56.6	I'm Ben Maku, and this is Cyber.
1:03.8	So, Joseph, it has not been a very good year, 2019, for Ring.
1:10.5	Amazon's super sketchy surveillance camera company has it.
1:14.6	No, I mean, they've had a wave of coverage about how they planned to potentially put
1:19.8	facial recognition into that technology, which obviously has a load of privacy issues.
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