smart devices that hook up to the
internet and can be controlled by your
phone those will be hot items this
holiday season yes indeed and tonight
these devices are the focus of a
demonstration you really need to see
five on your site investigator Jonathan
Walsh shows us just how easy it is to
hack your home I can see who's in the
driveway and who's coming up the front
walk and who's at the front door Gloria
Bevan has a ring camera system a smart
TV and a wireless printer she's worried
about just how exposed she is I don't
like that you have access to what I'm
doing in my house so we started with one
of Gloria's neighbors we are in an
undisclosed location in our mobile unit
our ethical hacker Rob it's going to
show us how it's done a lot of these
things can be done pretty easily
Rob Simon has been hacking for years he
tells us a simple tossed out light bulb
in trash your personal accounts we can
pull the internals of that out and then
we can look for the flash memory chips
that are on there that's for all of the
information as well as the settings for
connecting to your network he extracted
potentially damaging info like passwords
all with the help of this you can get
this anywhere yeah you can get this
anywhere this is just a cheap device it
cost about fifteen dollars while sitting
in our band rob was able to gain control
of this thermostat using just commonly
known passwords not only can he create
problems with freezing out the home but
it's a high-tech way of casing the house
using the calendar on the thermostat
maybe he's scheduling a lower
temperature than you would typically use
first say about a week it might be
possible that the user is gonna be on
vacation during that time so they might
not be home money thing is the house Rob
just hack belongs to Alex hammerstone
from trusted set who helped us with this
demonstration if you use the same
password across multiple sites your
account is only going to be as secure as
the weakest site where you use it
problems
are prevalent data breaches are
happening all the time affecting
millions of people's private info people
are paying to get this type of
information there's always going to be
people out there that are going to be
doing it plus a quick Google search
shows hacking courses popping up and
under a second we found hackers
presentations on YouTube pack all the
20 devices in 45 minutes it's such a
massive worldwide issue that hits the
u.s. heart it's like leaving your blinds
open and people looking in at you a
previous five on your side investigation
found a website that's hacked into
thousands of cameras online for anyone
to see medical procedures a naked man
and children plenty of them in schools
in daycare and at home we found a local
victim whose home camera was hacked
should have been very much more diligent
about realizing it's a window into your
home with so many Internet connected
products out there even microwaves
vacuums and door locks the experts say
it's time for all of us not just Laurium
especially for older people like me we
don't really know what we're doing with
this stuff to use protections like
multi-layer authentication where a text
can tell if it's you in an account
that's gonna help prevent someone from
gaining access even if they did have
your credentials and pay a lot more
attention to our internet connected
products people oftentimes think of
their technology devices like a toaster
which you buy you use for 20 years and
then you another one but really it's a
lot more like a car's updates and
maintenance so let's close the door on
the criminals I'm 5 on your side
investigated Jonathan Walsh
