Elamb Cybersecurity

Category: security camera

  • Physical Security Ring Video Door Bell Review

    Just bought the Ring.com video door bell and I like it!  If you have not heard of this device, what it does is sends a notification to your phone whenever someone rings your doorbell or comes within close proximity of your front door.  The notification allows you to see them on video and talk to them straight from your phone.

    We went on a trip to another state and I was able to talk to guest when they were talking outside my front door.  They were shocked.  For a small fee of $3/month (or $30 for the year) you can have Ring.com save the video footage.  This would come in handy if someone was at your door doing something they were not supposed to be doing.

    There are a few issues I have with the device.  It does not allow you to see your front time on demand.  Meaning, you cannot hit a button and see what is going on.  Someone has to be trigger the motion detection or ring to doorbell in order to be prompted to see what is going on.  Also there was a vulnerability in the ring.com software that was had the secret key of your wifi network unencrypted, but this was fixed by ring.com as soon as they discovered it.  The other thing I have an issue with, is the lag.  There is like a 5+ second delay from the time the system is activated to the time it gets to your phone.

     

  • Scam YOUR URGENT RESPONSE IS HIGHLY NEEDED World Bank

    419 Scam

    THE WORLD BANK
                                                OFFICE OF THE WORLD BANK
                                           DELEGATE TO NIGERIA LAGOS  NIGERIA
                                                PHONE: +2349050094484
     
     
     
    Attn:Beneficiary,
     
    Sorry for the delay in your inheritance payment, because of the
    distraction we have from Mr.Axenidou Antigoni,Prof Charles Soludo and
    Dr. James Baker who came to our office trying to claim your fund, and
    also they said that
    you are dead, and my wife is in trouble now because she is the only
    one who knows that you are alive but there are greedy people over here
    who did not want you to receive what belong to you, and they have
    conspired a great deal to transfer my wife to World Bank in
    Switzerland so that my wife will not sue them to court, so please we
    want to be sure before releasing your fund, did you send them to claim
    your $10.5m dollars, if not, reconfirm.
     
    Name#
    House Address#
    Phone#
    0ccupation#
    Age/Sex#
    Your Bank Name#
    Your Bank Address#
     
    The only luck you have is that nobody can claim this money without
    your consent even me, because it was registered on your name on the
    Computer data system this is the more reason your so called partner
    and other fraudsters are using the advantage to defraud you.
     
    If you can prove that you are the owner of this email ID, I will like
    you to furnish me with your remaining information to enable me
    cross-check it with the one I have so that i can be convinced that i
    am talking to the right person and i am taking this preventive measure
    because I do not want to talk to the wrong person due to the
    sensitivity of the information involved. Other details will be
    forwarded to you as soon as I am convinced that I am communicating
    with the right person.Please reply to me immediately.
     
    YOURS SINCERELY,
     
    MR.FRANKLIN MULEN
    OFFICE OF THE WORLD BANK
    DELEGATE TO LAGOS NIGERIA.

  • Plaza East public housing development Security Cameras Ineffective?

    An article at the SF Chronicle discusses the ineffectiveness of 178 cameras in a public housing development.

    “[The cameras] have never helped police officers arrest a homicide suspect even though about a quarter of the city’s homicides occur on or near public housing property, city officials say.

    But it may not necessarily be the security cameras that are ineffective as much as the security program using that tool. The article inadvertently mentions this:

    NOBODY MONITORS THE CAMERAS, and the videos are seen only if police specifically request it from San Francisco Housing Authority officials. The cameras have occasionally managed to miss crimes happening in front of them because they were trained in another direction, and FOOTAGE IS PARTICULARLY GRAINY AT NIGHT when most crime occurs, according to police and city officials.

    Without a proper security program that requires tasks such as an individual monitoring the cameras, a camera system is simply a deterrent for some crimes instead of a proactive extension of security to preventing most (if not all) crimes.