{"id":185148,"date":"2024-03-15T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/clever-thieves-using-wifi-jammers-to-shut-down-those-crappy-security-cameras-you-bought-on-amazon"},"modified":"2024-03-15T10:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:24:06","slug":"clever-thieves-using-wifi-jammers-to-shut-down-those-crappy-security-cameras-you-bought-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/clever-thieves-using-wifi-jammers-to-shut-down-those-crappy-security-cameras-you-bought-on-amazon","title":{"rendered":"Clever Thieves Using WiFi Jammers to Shut Down Those Crappy Security Cameras You Bought on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clever-thieves-using-wifi-jammers-to-shut-down-those-crappy-security-cameras-you-bought-on-amazon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Police Department is warning residents that burglars are using WiFi jammers to easily disarm \u201cconnected\u201d surveillance cameras and alarms that are available for cheap on marketplaces like Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>As LA-based news station <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/police-warn-of-thieves-using-wifi-jamming-tech-to-disarm-cameras-alarms\/\" class=\"\"><em>KTLA5<\/em> reports<\/a>, tech-savvy burglars have been using WiFi jammers, which are small devices that can confuse and overload wireless devices with traffic, to enter homes without setting off alarms \u2014 a worrying demonstration of just how easily affordable home security devices from the likes of Ring and Eufy can be disarmed.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/networking\/wi-fi-jamming-to-knock-out-cameras-suspected-in-nine-minnesota-burglaries-smart-security-systems-vulnerable-as-tech-becomes-cheaper-and-easier-to-acquire\" class=\"\"><em>Tom\u2019s Hardware<\/em> reported<\/a> last month, instances of WiFi jammers being used by criminals go back several years. Jammers are not only easily available to purchase online, they\u2019re also pretty cheap and can go for as little as $40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Police Department is warning residents that burglars are using WiFi jammers to easily disarm \u201cconnected\u201d surveillance cameras and alarms that are available for cheap on marketplaces like Amazon. As LA-based news station KTLA5 reports, tech-savvy burglars have been using WiFi jammers, which are small devices that can confuse and overload wireless devices [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,418,1492,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-internet","category-security","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}