Security News > 2021 > January > ADT techie admits he peeked into women's home security cams thousands of times to watch them undress, have sex

One-time ADT security engineer Telesforo Aviles, 35, pleaded guilty to computer fraud in the US after spying on women through their home surveillance cameras.

As we reported last year, Aviles added himself as an admin user, using his personal email address, to the accounts of customers' home security systems, giving him full access to every part of their lives.

"SonicWall identified a coordinated attack on its internal systems by highly sophisticated threat actors exploiting probable zero-day vulnerabilities on certain SonicWall secure remote access products," the Silicon Valley biz said on Friday night.

Organizations using SonicWall products - such as the Secure Mobile Access 100 series - are urged to configure their systems to only accept connections from known trusted IP addresses, among other mitigations, to keep out whoever has these exploits for SonicWall software.

The Hacker News, which broke the news of the hack, said it received reports that earlier in the week SonicWall's internal systems had fallen over and that miscreants had accessed the vendor's source code.

Last week on January 15 we became aware of an issue affecting the security of Qualcomm's visitor check-in system.

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