Ring, owned by Amazon friend everywhere in the curious police departments, got another embarrassment stumble. The supervision company’s Bure app– Launched in 2018 as a sort of ‘neighborhood watch’ feature – users have apparently been exposed to precise geographic data and home address information on the iinternet.
Neighbors is Ring’s online forum where users can share public safety information about what’s going on in their communities. It is basically a more dystopian version of Nextdoor. Reports on neighbors are public, but supposedly anonymous, with the full name and location of a poster. Due to the recently discovered security flaw, a smart web explorer could gain access to information about the home addresses as well as the exact latitude and longitude of the location’s location, TechCrunch reported.
Similarly, every time a user posted to Neighbors, Ring servers generated a unique number for the mail. These numbers have increased with each placement, making it easy to link the identification number to other information about the poster, including geographic data, according to TechCrunch. However, all this was invisible to the app user.
The company claims to have solved the problem: “We fixed this problem shortly after we became aware of it,” said a spokesperson for Ring in a statement. “We have not identified any evidence that this information is being used or is being used maliciously.” These are, of course, famous last words.
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This is certainly not the first time that Ring has experienced security issues. In fact, last year, Gizmodo revealed how data is exposed by the app reporters allowed to indicate thousands of Ring users across the US. Even more unfortunate is the fact that Ring is currently being sued about a series of burglary incidents last year in which cyberbullying infiltrated their home security system and hurled racial insults, death threats and other obscenities at unsuspecting homeowners through internet-connected devices.
Ring, what was in 2018 for more than $ acquired by Amazon1 billion, has done its best to alleviate these problems by tightening security in other areas. Yesterday, for example, the company announced it would launch implementation of end-to-end coding for its products.
The company has is frequently criticized, not only for the security issues but also for the extensive relationship with law enforcement agencies across the country. From June last year, the company had at least partnerships 1,300 police departments across the US, making it essentially a ‘profitable oversight network. ”