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Swatters used Ring cameras to livestream attacks, taunt police, prosecutors say

reader comments 25 with 0 posters participating Share this story Federal prosecutors have charged two men with allegedly taking part in a spree of swatting attacks against more than a dozen owners of compromised Ring home security cameras and using that access to livestream the police response on social media. Kya Christian Nelson, 21, of… Read More »

Ring patched an Android bug that could have exposed video footage

Enlarge / Ring camera images give you a view of what’s happening and, in one security firm’s experiments, a good base for machine learning surveillance. reader comments 27 with 21 posters participating Share this story Amazon quietly but quickly patched a vulnerability in its Ring app that could have exposed users’ camera recordings and other… Read More »