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12 Best Home Security Cameras, Lab-Tested and Reviewed
Free video storage: Yes, on up to a 512-gigabyte microSD card (sold separately).Optional subscription costs: Through a Tapo Care Premium plan, you get 30 days of cloud video storage, starting at $3.49 per month (or $35 per year) for one camera and going up to $12 per month (or $120 per year) for 10 cameras. For Apple Home users, an…
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Hackers target critical zero-day vulnerability in PTZ cameras
Hackers are attempting to exploit two zero-day vulnerabilities in PTZOptics pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) live streaming cameras used in industrial, healthcare, business conferences, government, and courtroom settings. In April 2024, GreyNoise discovered CVE-2024-8956 and CVE-2024-8957 after its AI-powered threat detection tool, Sift, detected unusual activity on its honeypot network that did not match any known threats. Upon examination of the alert, GreyNoise researchers uncovered…
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DSLR Cameras Are Falling Out of Favor, But They’re Still Worth Considering
It’s no secret that DSLRs aren’t as popular as they used to be. A recent report from the Camera Imaging Products Association found that sales are down 20% year-over-year while mirrorless cameras continue to grow. For some people, though, a DSLR could be precisely what they need, even now. New DSLRs Are Affordable; Used DSLRs Are Even Cheaper Harry Guinness…
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The best video doorbell cameras
Writer’s note: Amazon’s fall Prime Day event is scheduled for October 8th and 9th. If you want to shop ahead of time, we’ve already assembled a guide to the best early Prime Day deals, which includes several of the video doorbells featured below. With a smart video doorbell, your front door’s communication skills go from 1980s landline to a modern smartphone.…
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Welcome to Meta’s future, where everyone wears cameras
All around Meta’s Menlo Park campus, cameras stared at me. I’m not talking about security cameras or my fellow reporters’ DSLRs. I’m not even talking about smartphones. I mean Ray-Ban and Meta’s smart glasses, which Meta hopes we’ll all — one day, in some form — wear. I visited Meta for this year’s Connect conference, where just about every hardware…
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Best Video Doorbell Cameras of 2024
Free video storage: Yes, using 8 gigabytes of built-in memory. (Eufy estimates it will store up to 90 days of motion-triggered video clips.) Optional storage plans: Through a Eufy Security storage plan, you get 30 days of cloud storage for one camera for $3 per month (or $30 per year) or 30 days for up to 10 cameras for $10…
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Malware exploits 5-year-old zero-day to infect end-of-life IP cameras
Image: Midjourney The Corona Mirai-based malware botnet is spreading through a 5-year-old remote code execution (RCE) zero-day in AVTECH IP cameras, which have been discontinued for years and will not receive a patch. The flaw, discovered by Akamai’s Aline Eliovich, is tracked as CVE-2024-7029 and is a high-severity (CVSS v4 score: 8.7) issue in the “brightness” function of the cameras,…
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Best Phone Cameras – Consumer Reports
Some popular smartphones failed to make the top 10 list below, but often only because the slightly more premium models in the same series outshined them by a hair. (The iPhone 14 or Samsung Galaxy S23, for example.) The bottom line: Just because a phone doesn’t make the cut here doesn’t mean it has poor cameras. Our head of electronics…
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Best instant cameras for 2024
Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, you can capture a moment in a photo that you can see and touch almost immediately. Images captured by an instant camera aren’t as pristine or perfect…
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