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LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells (www.tomshardware.com)

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The Los Angeles Police Department has warned residents to be wary of thieves using technology to break into homes undetected. High-tech burglars have apparently knocked out their victims' wireless cameras and alarms in the Los Angeles Wilshire-area neighborhoods before getting away with swag bags full of valuables. An LAPD social media post highlights the Wi-Fi jammer-supported burglaries and provides a helpful checklist of precautions residents can take.

Criminals can easily find the hardware for Wi-Fi jamming online. It can also be cheap, with prices starting from $40. However, jammers are illegal to use in the U.S.

We have previously reported on Wi-Fi jammer-assisted burglaries in Edina, Minnesota. Criminals deployed Wi-Fi jammer(s) to ensure homeowners weren't alerted of intrusions and that incriminating video evidence wasn't available to investigators.

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[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

back in the day, the trick was to cut the phone line, then shove the cut wire back in the phone box. wait for the police to come and see that there's nothing wrong, then you go and burgle.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 5 months ago

Me being cheap pays off; wifi cameras are expensive as fuck so I just have wired ones that don't do anything on the Internet.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Physical locks, physical keys. We are collectively becoming too "smart" for our own good

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Physical locks and keys are also easy to bypass.

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[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

FCC is gunna start blasting

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That's why wireless security devices are a joke. And it is not only WiFi, this is BlueTooth and other protocols like that, too.

Good security (and common sense, too) would be to have such devices wired up. And check the spectrum for jammers and raise an alarm about that, too.

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I’m curious if these are actual jammers or just deauth devices.

It also seems really risky because I think we have three different bands Wi-Fi devices use now?

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