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Smart Cameras, Baby Monitors at Risk from Hackers: UK Cyber Security Agency

Baby monitors and wireless cameras risk being hacked by cyber criminals unless people take security measures to protect themselves, British security experts warned on Tuesday [March 3]. Internet-connected cameras used in the home are becoming popular and affordable but security …

Lebanon Spy Agency Turns Smartphones into Spycams in 21 Countries: Researchers

Lebanon’s intelligence service may have turned the smartphones of thousands of targeted individuals into cyber-spying machines in one of the first known examples of large-scale state hacking of phones rather than computers, researchers say. Lebanon’s General Directorate of General Security …