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10 Bizarre-but-True Ways Your Home Is Susceptible to Hackers


By News on the Net ——--June 4, 2010

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By John Brandon, Fox News 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.
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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 above) 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...

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