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WHEN AMAZON LAUNCHED[sic] its Amazon Key service last month, it also offered a remedy for anyone—realistically, most people—who might be creeped out that the service gives random strangers unfettered access to your home. That security antidote? An internet-enabled camera called Cloud Cam, designed to sit opposite your door and reassuringly record every Amazon Key delivery.
But now security researchers have demonstrated that with a simple program run from any computer in Wi-Fi range, that camera can be not only disabled but frozen. A viewer watching its live or recorded stream sees only a closed door, even as their actual door is opened and someone slips inside. That attack would potentially enable rogue delivery people to stealthily steal from Amazon customers, or otherwise invade their inner sanctum.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-key-flaw-let-deliverymen-disable-your-camera/
Previously: Walmart Wants to Deliver Groceries Directly Into Your Fridge
Amazon Wants to Deliver Purchases into Your Home
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday November 18 2017, @10:17PM (1 child)
Oh, I feel safer already.
Lockers are cool if they are close. Around here every Safeway store and 7/11 have them.
You got three days to pick up locker packages. And not everything is eligible to be shipped that way, but the trucks usually drop stuff earlier in the day than the home delivery. I think the lockers get first priority.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Virindi on Sunday November 19 2017, @07:51AM
Why not? The purpose of a mall "security guard" is that if there is an obvious problem they call the real police. Amazon packages don't tend to be worth the effort of a sophisticated attack. Criminals do know about risk vs. reward.