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Security researchers accessed Ring's Android app to view consumer security camera video. After Amazon-owned Ring had an opportunity to address a flaw in May discreetly, Checkmarx reported the bug that could watch a customer's recorded camera footage.
The video doorbell maker quietly fixed the vulnerability in May.
A now-patched vulnerability in the Amazon Ring mobile app could have been exploited to expose users’ video recordings, but was complex to exploit, according to the researchers who stumbled upon it.
A bug in the Ring Neighbors app exposed the precise location data and home addresses of users who posted on the neighborhood watch platform. Public user posts on Neighbors are anonymized, but a security lapse in the app may have allowed attackers to retrieve sensitive user information that isn't normally accessible, a new report by TechCrunch claims. While posts on Neighbors incorporate video footage from Ring products, they don't include publicly viewable names or location data. However, the flaw caused certain data like a user's latitude, longitude, and home address to become extractab...
A bug in the Ring Neighbors app exposed the precise location data and home addresses of users who posted on the neighborhood watch platform. Credit: Ring Public user posts on Neighbors are anonymized, but a security lapse in the app may have allowed attackers to retrieve sensitive user information that isn't normally accessible, a new report by TechCrunch claims. While posts on Neighbors incorporate video footage from Ring products, they don't include publicly viewable names or location data. However, the flaw caused certain data like a user's latitude, longitude, and ho...