ADT Pulse System #39;s 1 Millionth Customer
http://www.californiasecuritypro.com/blog/?Tag=ADT+Pulse This video highlights the celebration of ADT #39;s one millionth customer for the ADT Pulse system and a major milestone for home security....
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Branchburg, NJ (PRWEB) December 09, 2014
Homeowners in Central NJ have been on edge in recent weeks with a rash of home invasions in Middlesex County and the surrounding area. Robbers see the holiday season as an opportunity to target homes during this gift-giving time of year. Cars and homes filled with easy to grab gifts are targets for predators. Somerville Aluminum, one of the largest home remodeling contractors in NJ, is encouraging homeowners to be mindful of home safety during the holidays and offers the following suggestions for securing homes and their families.
Be cautious about locking windows and doors, even when you are home.
According to home security expert ADT, 40% of burglaries are no force entries, meaning robbers gain access to your home through an unlocked door or window. Keep windows and doors locked at all times. Always close your garage door, as thieves will steal lawn equipment and tools. If you keep a garage door opener in your car, always be sure to keep it out of sight in the glove compartment or center console and keep car doors locked.
Do you have the right doors?
Statistics show that most burglars enter a house through the front or back door- by kicking them in. Doors made of insubstantial material, even locked, are too weak to withstand being kicked in. All exterior doors should be solid and made from strong material such as fiberglass, solid wood, and wood- core or metal, with deadbolts for added security.
Somerville Aluminum installs Extra Strength Legacy Steel Entry Doors by Provia. Built with a 20-gauge security plate for extra strength, these entry doors are made with one continuous piece of steel on the edges and face for extra strength and durability, which also prevents doors from being kicked in. The doors have an exclusive tab and lock system of mechanical interlocks to give the door additional structural strength and Provia reinforces the lock and deadbolt area and has a rigid composite lock block for extra strength and to help prevent kick-ins.
Added strength and security is a must for any home entry door. You can never have too much protection against home invasion. We have peace of mind with the Legacy Steel Entry Doors we install by Provia because we know the door will keep our customers safe, states Somerville Aluminum Co-Owner Gary Shiman.
A few simple tips for protecting your home:
Keep quiet on social media. Do not alert friends that you will be out of town or going on vacation over the holidays. Do not post photos of an expensive gift you have just received. This information can be seen by the wrong people and expose you to potential theft.
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UK home Wi-Fi security is as bad as PC security was in the 1990s, according to a new study.
Security software firm Avast found that more than half of all routers are poorly protected by default or common, easily hacked password/ID combinations. Easily hacked password combinations such as admin/admin or admin/password, or even admin/
The survey of 2,000 UK households also found that an additional 23 per cent of consumers use their address, name, phone number, street name, or other easily guessed terms as their passwords.
Unsecured routers create an easy entry point for hackers, opening the door to all kinds of attacks ranging from stealing personal information to hijacking browser sessions.
One of the biggest risks on any Wi-Fi network is DNS hijacking. Malware can be used to screw with DNS settings in order to surreptitiously redirects prospective victims from a known site, such as a bank website, to a counterfeit site controlled by cybercriminals.
A big majority (88 per cent) of wired households in the UK have six or more devices connected to a Wi-Fi network. In addition to PCs and laptops, users have mobile devices (28 per cent), printers and scanners (17 per cent), smart TVs (12 per cent), and DVD or Blu-ray players (4 per cent) connected to their Wi-Fi networks.
The Avast poll found that nearly three in four (74 per cent) respondents would be extremely uncomfortable if they found out a neighbour or uninvited guest were secretly logging onto their personal home Wi-Fi network. A minority (8 per cent) admitted they had used a neighbours Wi-Fi network without the neighbours knowledge or permission.
Todays router security situation is very reminiscent of PCs in the 1990s, with lax attitudes towards security combined with new vulnerabilities being discovered every day creating an easily exploitable environment," said Vince Steckler, chief executive officer of Avast. "The main difference is people have much more personal information stored on their devices today than they did back then."
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GLENDALE (WITI) A Glendale man says he let a worker into his home, and soon realized that worker wasnt who he claimed to be. Now, the Glendale manis warning others by sharing his story.
Constantine Savagios and his family have a new security system after what happened to them last week. They say they believe the only reason the worker entered their home was to see whether there was anything to steal.
It was around 7:30 a.m. last Tuesday, December 2nd.
It was early in the morning. I was disoriented. He said he was from We Energies and he needed to check the gas pipes, Savagios said.
Savagios, a stay-at-home father of a six-month-old girl let the man into his basement. He was only inside for about five minutes, but after he left, Savagios became suspicious.
There was no We Energies truck. You know, there was nothing in the mail saying we will be in the area. Everything is just going through my mind like wow, where was the notice?' Savagios said.
We Energies confirmed the man who stopped by Savagios home was not one of their employees.
Just within the past week or two, we have seen a couple reports come in where customers have called saying that an individual has shown up attheir home, claiming to be from We Energies when they really arent, We Energies spokeswoman Cathy Schulze said.
Glendale police say they believe the man was casing the home for items to steal. They say what happened to Savagios appears to be an isolated incident.
All our folks in the field, whether its a contract worker or a We Energies worker, we do all have ID badges. We are clearly identified they can look for a company car sometimes as well, Schulze said.
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Home Of The Future - home security
In the past couple of years the emergence of connected devices have opened up new ways of interacting with everything in our home from the thermostat to locking our doors to turning off...
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RubyConf 2014 - Sauron: DIY Home Security with Ruby! by Jonan Scheffler
This is the story of how I built an all-seeing eye with Ruby, and how I use it to defend the sanctity of my suburban home. Using a Raspberry Pi and some homemade motion detection software...
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A ghostly looking image of a mountain lion, pale and blurry, was caught via home security camera by a resident near Beverly Park, east of the 405 Freeway, last week.
Though the photo raises alarm among area residents, it also raises questions for local wildlife experts. This could be the second mountain lion to have crossed the 405.
The image, circulated on Twitter, shows a mountain lion that looks to be at least a year old running down a street about 4:30 a.m, said Seth Riley, wildlife ecologist for the National Park Service.
If the photo was actually shot in the Beverly Park area -- and Riley said there's no reason to assume it was not -- the cat could have crossed over the 405 from the Santa Monica Mountains to reach the neighborhood.
The image was posted Nov. 29 on the account of musician and actor Christopher Stills, son of musician Stephen Stills.
P-22, the resident Griffith Park mountain lion, had been thought to be the first to journey across the 405. Before ecologists were tracking P-22 by radio, it's assumed the big cat crossed two freeways to reach the park.
"It's very likely [P-22] came from the Santa Monica Mountains," Riley said, so "he would have had to cross the 405 and the Hollywood Freeway."
The angle and quality of the photo provides little clues as to the gender and exact age of the mountain lion.
The puma in the photo is part of a small community. Riley said an estimated eight or nine mountain lions, not including kittens, live in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Pumas in the Santa Monicas are trapped on an island of habitat, bound by freeways, the ocean and Oxnard's agricultural fields.
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Apparent burglars identified with help of home security camera
A home burglary caught on video, in which suspects were identified has gone viral. Subscribe to WPTZ on YouTube now for more: http://bit.ly/1e9vG0j Get more Burlington/Plattsburgh news:...
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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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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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Protecting your home security cameras from hackers