Collaborate Disseminate
Anyone who’s ever slept through a morning’s alarm can tell you that sounds, even loud piercing ones, don’t always wake a person out of a deep sleep. Similarly, hearing a …read more Continue reading Haptic Baby Monitor Gets the Wearer’s Attention
The Taococo FREDI baby monitor has repeatedly been criticized for being easy to hack. Continue reading Parents say creep hacked their baby monitor to tell toddler they ‘love’ her
This IoT software flaw could render millions of consumer devices, including baby monitors and webcams, open to remote discovery and hijack. Continue reading Millions of consumer smart devices exposed by serious security flaw
Millions of security cameras, baby monitors and “smart” doorbells are open to hijack – and no solution is currently available. Continue reading 2 Million IoT Devices Vulnerable to Complete Takeover
Why a business spat resulted in Liberia falling off the internet, how the US Government shutdown is impacting website security, and the perplexing world of extreme IoT devices.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winn… Continue reading Smashing Security #111: When rivals hack, and ‘extreme’ baby monitors
Wi-Fi enabled or not? Digital or analog? Here are the features to look for, and how to secure your baby monitor out of the box. Continue reading How to buy (and set up) a safe and secure baby monitor
Famed whistleblower [Edward Snowden] has recently taken to YouTube to announce Haven: an Open Source application designed to allow security-conscious users turn old unused Android smartphones and tablets into high-tech monitoring devices for free. While arguably Haven doesn’t do anything that wasn’t already possible with software on the market, the fact that it’s Open Source and designed from the ground up for security does make it a bit more compelling than what’s been available thus far.
Developed by the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Haven is advertised as something of a role-reversal for the surveillance state. Instead of a smartphone’s …read more
Continue reading Edward Snowden Introduces Baby Monitor for Spies
Having a child is perhaps the greatest “hack” a human can perform. There’s no soldering iron, no Arduino (we hope), but in the end, you’ve managed to help create the most complex piece of machinery in the known galaxy. The joys of having a child are of course not lost on the geekier of our citizens, for they wonder the same things that all new parents do: how do we make sure the baby is comfortable, how many IR LEDs do we need to see her in the dark, and of course the age old question, should we do this …read more
Continue reading FruitNanny: The Raspberry Pi Baby Monitor For Geeks
You try to be good, but the temptation to drown out the noise of parenthood with some great tunes is just too much to resist. The music washes over you, bringing you back to simpler times. But alas, once you plug in the kids started running amok, and now the house is on fire and there’s the cleaning up to do and all that paperwork. Maybe you should have tried modifying a baby monitor to interrupt your music in case of emergency?
Starting with an off-the-shelf baby monitor, [Ben Heck] takes us through the design goals and does a quick …read more
Continue reading Modified Baby Monitor Interrupts Your Groove in Case of Emergency
“Quick! We’re having a baby and we need a baby monitor!” Rather than run to the local big box and plunk down cash for an off-the-shelf solution, any self-respecting hacker would rise to the challenge and hit the shop to build something like this live streaming eye-in-the-sky baby camera. Right?
At least that’s how [Antibore] handled the situation, and the results are pretty good. He designed his build around an old Raspberry Pi 2 that was hanging around. That required a WiFi adapter, and since he wanted video and audio he needed a camera and mic. The first USB mic …read more
