How to Keep Your Ring Cameras Safe From the Latest Hacker Attacks
If you have a ring camera and have seen headlines like “How Hackers Break into Ring Cameras,” you are sure to be a little nervous. Has someone broken into your own home? Are they looking at you? Are your pets? Your children?
Maybe, but there is something easy to do to stop it. As it turns out, the responsibility for keeping your Ring account secure lies right on your shoulders. There is no crazy backdoor method or major vulnerabilities that hackers use to hack into Ring accounts and view people’s cameras ( or contact them ). They use weak user security techniques to hack into these accounts.
The attacks, Vice reports, use tools that explode Ring with potential accounts that were likely stolen in other hacks. It shouldn’t take the usefulness of an attacker that long to find a working login, given that most people are lazy and use their usernames and passwords across multiple sites.
So, owner of the ring: take the following measures right now to block your account from such hacking attempts:
- Stop reusing the same password across multiple sites. Create aunique password for Ring (and everywhere else) and store it either in your browser’s password manager or one of the excellent third-party tools designed for this purpose . (They can also help you create strong, unique passwords.)
- Do not give your Ring username to anyone. If you need to give others access to your Ring devices, add them as a public user and make sure they also use strong password protection.
- Turn on two-factor authentication . It’s easy, and it can help prevent intruders from getting into your account, even if they know your username and password. At the very least, you will receive a notification that a login attempt has been made and you can change your password to something unique and secure.
And it’s all. These security measures are hardly onerous; It should take the average person less than five minutes to set them up and help you prevent others from seeing the cameras you have installed throughout your home.