A Ring camera in Las Vegas live-streamed a hacker’s voice taunting an 8-year-old girl through the device in her bedroom. A Wyze camera glitch exposed still images from 13,000 users’ home feeds to the wrong accounts. An ADT technician admitted to accessing customer cameras to watch women in their homes over 9,000 times over four … Read more
You check into your beach rental, drop your bags, walk straight to the ocean, and don’t think about home for a week. That’s the whole point. But while you’re doing that, your house is back home doing something you didn’t plan for — broadcasting to anyone paying attention that it’s empty. Not subtly. Loud and … Read more
Most burglaries don’t happen in the dark of night during a thunderstorm. But when they do, there’s a real question worth asking: what is your security system actually doing right now? The power went out 40 minutes ago. Your router has been dark since then. Your Wi-Fi-only security system — the hub, the sensors, the … Read more
Walk through any suburban neighborhood and you’ll spot them everywhere — yellow diamond signs bolted to fences, stickers on front doors, sometimes just a laminated sheet in a window. “Beware of Dog.” The assumption is that any burglar reading it will picture a snarling Rottweiler on the other side and keep walking. Some do. But … Read more
Your lease says no permanent modifications. So you do nothing, figure a lock is a lock, and move on. That’s the thought process in most rental apartments — and it’s exactly why renters are nearly twice as likely to be burglarized as homeowners. The security industry didn’t help. For years, every product worth buying required … Read more
Security cameras get all the attention. Smart locks get the marketing budgets. But neither of them matters much if a burglar walks in through a door you forgot was even an entry point. The front door gets secured, the alarm sign goes in the yard, and everything else gets ignored — the connecting garage door, … Read more
Your baby can’t move yet, so you have time. That’s what everyone thinks — until the morning they turn their back for 90 seconds and find their eight-month-old pulling a lamp off a side table. Babies go from stationary to mobile faster than any first-time parent expects, and the hazards that were abstract last month … Read more
Renters are twice as likely to be burglarized as homeowners. Here are 5 security upgrades — under $200 total — that require no drilling, leave zero damage, and go with you when you move.
Most burglars select targets by reading environmental signals — occupancy cues, concealment, escape routes, predictable vacancy patterns. Here are the 7 specific signals, based on convicted burglar research and criminology studies, and how to change what your home communicates.
A $300 security camera documents a burglary. A $47 door reinforcement kit prevents one. Here’s the physics-based case for hardening your door frame before buying any camera — and the three products that do it best.
