Friday, June 4, 2010

10 Bizarre But True Ways Your Home Is Susceptible To Hackers (foxnews.com)

Reality is scarier than fiction -- especially when it comes to what hackers can do. In many bizarre-but-true ways, your home is wide open to hacker attacks. Right now.

While you're reading this, a criminal could be logging in to your router and using it as a porn server. He could be using a Bluetooth "sniper rifle" (like the one shown below) to tap into your phone while you chat by the window. He could even physically steal your printer and capture from its circuitry the financial records you printed last week.

Here are 10 scary -- and real -- home-security threats hackers may try, and how to block them -- if you can. more













By John Brandon | Published June 03, 2010 | FOXNews.com

PJL 4th June 2010