Ring has been under increasing scrutiny for their commitment to privacy for a while. This new feature throws users a bone.

While not necessarily building a smart home, many families now have connected TVs and media players, and increasingly are opting for connected cameras. Unfortunately these cameras are proving to be the greatest weak point in home networks.

Using any connected camera products comes with an unstated element of risk, and those of us with some sense of the inherent risks of connected devices deploy them with that in mind. Even so, we tend to hope that the service provider treats our video content with the appropriate level of encryption and privacy controls. 

In a case of unbelievably bad security design, researchers at Bitdefender have exposed a range of cheap security cameras in a perfect case study of how to do IoT wrong, and why poor device security is a major problem.

Following on from the Floodlight Cam product is a new range of smaller LED-lit security cameras intended to plug gaps in the coverage of any installed Floodlight Cams you might have.

IP Cameras have been particularly bad citizens, with exposed Telnet ports and poor privacy controls have gained some high profile attention in the past. Scandinavian Security company F-Secure has now turned it's attention to popular home security models made by Foscam.