No, Nest Cams are not being hacked to issue fake nuclear bomb threats

The scare might have been real. The hack? Not so much. But the fact that a family spent five minutes fearing that North Korea was launching intercontinental ballistic missiles at the United States is definitely a teachable moment for the rest of us. “five minutes of sheer terror” The Mercury News has the story of Laura Lyons, a mother in Orinda, California whose Nest security camera gave her family what she called “five minutes of sheer terror” — when she suddenly heard a legitimate-sounding emergency warning that Los Angeles, Chicago and Ohio had only hours to evacuate before they might be hit by nuclear weapons. It turned out the warning came from their Nest Cam — and reportedly, a Nest customer service supervisor suggested that they... Continue reading…