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Apparent burglars identified with help of home security camera
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Rochester, N.Y. - You can see who is at your front door before you open it.
You can check in on your loved ones in the palm of your hand.
With technology increasing at a rapid rate, more families are choosing to install home security cameras.
The Caufields wanted their security system for peace of mind.
It was my husband's decision, he felt safer knowing that I'd be protected, that we'd have the camera and the alarm, homeowner Cassandra Caufield said.
But that peace of mind can be disrupted by hackers gaining access to your home.
The New York State Attorney General issued a warning.
Using simple software, anyone can find internet cameras whose default security settings have not been changed.
Not only can criminals see your live feed but they can change settings, taking complete control of your security system.
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Updated: Thursday, December 4 2014, 11:37 AM EST
Rochester, N.Y. - You can see who is at your front door before you open it.
You can check in on your loved ones in the palm of your hand.
With technology increasing at a rapid rate, more families are choosing to install home security cameras.
The Caufields wanted their security system for peace of mind.
It was my husband's decision, he felt safer knowing that I'd be protected, that we'd have the camera and the alarm, homeowner Cassandra Caufield said.
But that peace of mind can be disrupted by hackers gaining access to your home.
The New York State Attorney General issued a warning.
Using simple software, anyone can find internet cameras whose default security settings have not been changed.
Not only can criminals see your live feed but they can change settings, taking complete control of your security system.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to gain steam in Japan, Korea, and the U.S. aswearable and mobile device usage grows every day. As a result of the benefits of smart home products, which include increased efficiency, cost savings, and even saving lives, the technology looks to explode over the next few years. In fact, according to research from Intel Corp., the IoT market is expected to grow from 2 billion objects in 2006 to 200 billion by 2020.
Thats a lot of gadgets expected to hit the market, and even in 2014 we got a glimpse of how popular IoT has become. Kickstarter, Inc.and Indiegogo, Inc. put out dozens of IoT-related projects daily, supporting a startup community of crowd-funded business opportunities. Traditional technology providers are also making the shift to IoT services, with smart home security offerings from AT&T, remote control appliance management from Samsung and a dedicated storefront for smart home gadgets at top retailers like Amazon and Best Buy.
As weve seen with the smartphone market, gadget trends are fleeting as manufacturers fight to differentiate their products in a consumer-driven market. We can expect that IoT devices will face the same plight - just over the past two years weve seen dozens oftypes of object trackers launched, including 8.3 million wearable trackersbought by consumers in 2012 alone, and over 97,000 applications for monitoring health were recorded in 2013.
How can an IoT business devise a plan to factor fickle consumer trends while also curbing competition from industry stalwarts that can bundle services to existing customers, as well as disruptive startups crafting breakthrough products?
Today we hear from a handful of executives facing the challenges of excelling in the rapidly evolving world of IoT.Products like AOptix Technologies, Inc.s wireless fiber is literally laying the groundwork to support an IoT industry far into the future.And retailer Staples Inc. has made future-proofing a selling point with its Staples Connect platform powered by Zonoff Inc. software. Hewlett-Packard Co. sees new opportunity in providing the backend for businesses looking to prepare for future consumer demand, offering Unified Information Access technology that integrates the old and the new instantiations of machine-to-machine communications required for a profitable IoT market.
Kevin Meagher, VP and GM, Lowes Companies, Inc. Smart Home Division
We are working to make sure our retail strategy is future proof by providing an open platform that will scale to meet our customers needs over time. Lowes Companies, Inc. was the first to target the mass consumer market with a broad home automation solution, Iris, which makes smart homes easily accessible and affordable. We took technology that is perceived as expensive and difficult to install and made it available and easy-to-use by creating simple Do-it-Yourself (DIY) kits at affordable price points.
Getting new technology to work with old is a challenge. For example, some homes have the old type security systems with wired sensors that have limited functionality. We can connect these to Iris, but its old technology that would need a professional to rewire. An Iris Safe and Secure system has so much more functionality; its simple to install, and at $179 for a complete kit, it is cheaper than trying to rework the old security systems.
In the future, everything in the home will be connected to the Internet. Common home improvement products will offer connectivity to better provide consumers with safety, convenience, and overall peace of mind. Smart devices in-store today, such as door locks, thermostats, and even garage door openers, work and operate like traditional components of home improvement, but they bring the consumer-added functionality and ease to make managing their home simpler and more affordable. They give consumers the ability to remotely monitor and control their home so they have greater peace of mind.
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Documents leaked online include the personal information, salaries, and home addresses for employees and freelancers who worked at the studio, a data security analyst finds.
Much of the data leaked from Sony hack was stored in Microsoft Excel files without password protection.
The security breach suffered by Sony Pictures Entertainment last month appears to have leaked far more personal information than previously believed, revealing the Social Security numbers of more than 47,000 celebrities, freelancers, and current and former Sony employees.
An analysis of 33,000 leaked SPE documents by data security software firm Identity Finder found the leaked files included the personal information, salaries, and home addresses for employees and freelancers who worked at the studio. Some of the celebrities include Sylvester Stallone, director Judd Apatow and Australian actress Rebel Wilson, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the analysis.
Other data identified as leaked to file-sharing networks after the breach include contracts, termination dates, termination reason, and other sensitive information, nearly all of which was stored in Microsoft Excel files without password protection, said Identity Finder CEO Todd Feinman.
SPE representatives did not respond to a request for comment.
The leak highlights the risk posed to large companies and organizations that store customer and employee information on computers attached to the Internet, Feinman said.
"This is a common theme of corporations today," Feinman told CNET, ticking off a list of recent security breach victims including Target, Home Depot and PF Changs. "They think they are protected by firewalls and perimeter security, but the border is becoming blurred, and attacks get through."
Identity Finder said it discovered more than 1.1 million SSNs in the files, but that many were duplicates. Sony Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal's Social Security number was found in 104 separate locations, while Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton's was found in 93 files.
The discovery of multiple copies of data this sensitive on multiple employees' computers or multiple times on a single employee's computer is unusual and dramatically raises a company's security risk, Feinman said.
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GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) The heating and cooling system is up and running at Guntersville Middle School.
School board officials say crews worked through Thanksgiving break to repair the system.
This week, it is fully functioning.
Weve repaired the system with a concrete pit and we hope that will be much more substantial than what we had before and will have few problems in the future, Principal Jeff Jones says.
Construction on the system was a scene that had been constant throughout the last few weeks.
School board officials say the system has not been fully operational in that time, and the repair process took longer than expected.
The system is not very old. The pit they had put in originally just did not hold up as it perhaps should have, Jones says.
Jones says they dont anticipate any more issues with the heating and cooling system.
School officials say when the unusually cold weather hit the Valley several weeks ago, they put space heaters in the classrooms. They say moving the students was not possible, and they did not want to take them away from class for that duration of time.
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Handyman Services East Chicago, In. (Northwest Indiana)
This video is simply a slide show of the last few projects I #39;ve completed in 2014.
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OKLAHOMA COUNTY, Oklahoma -
Christmas is three weeks from today, and for some kids in Oklahoma, there won't be any presents under the tree this year. But one organization is trying to change that.
Youth Services for Oklahoma County hosted its annual Christmas party for homeless teens. It's all part of their SKIL program, or supporting kids in independent living.
Gabrel and Paula are two teenagers out there on their own. They told News 9 they sometimes bounce around from couch to couch, but both have big dreams.
Paula wants to join the National Guard and become a registered nurse. Her favorite present? A book to help her study.
Gabrel has worked as a handyman since he was 12, and for the first time, he now has his own set of tools.
But even with the great presents, which both teenagers say are more necessity than want, they get something even more out of the SKIL program.
The YSOC is always asking for donations.
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Six months after the Bharatiya Janata Partys sole poster boy Narendra Modi comprehensively won the April-May general elections and pulped the entire opposition to become the Indian prime minister, the opposition parties are now slowly getting back their lost voices. The opposition misery had been accentuated further in the recently concluded assembly polls in two states Maharashtra and Haryana and both the states witnessed installation of BJP governments for the first time in history. After the ongoing five-phase poll process in the states of Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand, which will be concluded with announcement of results on Dec. 23, the political battlefield will shift to Delhi for the 70-seat assembly. Incidentally, BJPs main rivals in Delhi elections, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have been successful in hogging medias attention after a long time. The Modi governments performance and various acts of omission and commission by BJP leaders are mainly responsible for a small but noticeable revival in political fortunes of Congress and AAP. But whether these two parties will be able to stop the BJPs juggernaut will be known only when the Delhi elections are held in February or March next year. Two specific instances in the past few days demonstrate how the BJP ceded political space to the opposition. In the first instance, the Congress party came up with a booklet lampooning the BJP government for 25 U-turns or policy reversals in past six months since the Modi government came to power one policy reversal per week on an average. Six months down the lane, the Modi model of governance stands out for three shameful characteristics U-Turn on promises, mere renaming and plagiarizing of UPA (United Progressive Alliance) programs and schemes and decisions that involve selling out public/national interests for the benefit of friendly industrial and corporate houses, says the Congress booklet titled Chhe maheene paar, U-Turn Sarkaar (Six months later, a U-Turn government). This is a brutal frontal assault by the Congress on the Modi government as it effectively says that PM Modi has no vision; that he is a mere talking wonder, a copycat and worse, a plagiarist. The Congress party got a lot of attention in print, electronic and digital media because of this major well-prepared political onslaught on the BJP government. The second instance pertains to the gutter-level politics that several ministers of PM Modi indulged in while addressing election rallies in Delhi. Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti kicked off a controversy on Dec. 1 by claiming that everyone including Muslims and Christians are sons of Ram. Jyoti, a newly-inducted minister and BJP MP from Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh, said while launching the BJP election campaign in Delhi that the voters must choose between Ramzadon (those born of Ram) and haramzadon (illegitimately born). Here is the English translation of Jyotis remarks made in Hindi: Modi has given a mantra that we will neither take bribe nor let others take bribe. Now you have to decide whom to choose. Will you choose the sons of Ram or those who are illegitimate?" Jyotis remarks triggered immediate condemnation from opposition parties. Congress leader Randeep Surjewala said, We condemn the use of words by Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti. The BJP is practicing politics of division. The prime minister should answer this as she belongs to his Cabinet. Biju Janata Dal leader Jay Panda castigated Sadhvi Jyoti while Nationalist Congress Partys Majid Memon said, It does not matter what a persons religion is. Hours later the minister was forced to offer an unconditional apology in both houses of parliament. But what is even more galling is the fact that Modi did not snub his foul-mouthed minister and chose to remain silent on the controversy. However, Modi issued a warning to BJP leaders at a meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Board meeting in New Delhi on Dec. 2 and told them not to address the nation out of turn, adding that I will not compromise on this. Giriraj Singh, another BJP leader who was recently inducted into Modis Cabinet despite his controversial remark during the general elections campaign that all those oppose Modi should better go to Pakistan, has stoked another controversy. His speech at an election rally in Delhi was couched in references to Hindu mythology wherein he targeted AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal as a fake Hanuman. Singh said: Do you know Hanuman? We are all Hanuman. Hanuman told Ram that he has no identity of his own. We are all followers of Modi in this country. People wanted to know the reason for my victory in Lok Sabha. I told them it is only Narendra Modi. Singh also compared Kejriwal to Maarch, a demon in the Hindu epic Ramayana who had the ability to disguise himself. Kejriwal is that fake Hanuman, he is the demon Maarich who changes shape but will get caught one day, Singh said. In this case, the language is not abusive but what the opposition parties are objecting to is Singhs attempts to polarize voters with subtle usage of religious similes and comparisons. Haroon Yusuf, Delhis Congress leader and a former minister in Delhi government, voiced his worries on this count thus: This is what the BJP has been doing in Delhi for the past few months. They have been trying to polarize Delhi on the basis of religion; this is what they did in Trilokpuri and Bawana. This politics of religious polarization is very dangerous and spreads hatred. But Delhi wont accept this. Indian general elections 2014 witnessed politicians across the political spectrum stooping low and hitting their rivals below the belt. These elections also witnessed the BJP successfully polarizing the electorate. This trend has continued and almost become a norm. It is for the Indian voters to decide whether they would allow politicians to indulge in this kind of gutter-level politics. All political parties in India are responsible for the plummeting standards of election campaigning.
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