Thieves Hack Garage Door Opener

How to protect your home from burglars taking advantage of new technologies.

Thieves hack garage door opener.

Vancouver wa kptv a vancouver family s home was burglarized while they slept and it was all caught on camera. It s called a code grabber. How to protect your home from burglars taking advantage of new technologies. The security researcher known for his droll and scary hacks has created a device called rolljam.

Thieves use garage door opener in unlocked van to burglarize vancouver garage. Transcript for could a thief intercept the radio signal of your garage door opener. He walked in and walked off with no telltale. Police warn thieves are breaking into garages by getting ahold of your garage door opener.

If you use a remote control to open your garage door you could be a perfect target. You probably don t think about thieves when you unlock your car but samy kamkar certainly does. Tonight new concerns raised by a small device that can help thieves gain easy access to homes. When boyle left his house and activated his garage door opener a thief with a code grabber was able to retransmit the signal and open the door.

Many of you may leave it in your car. Wfla it s a new hack on an old trend.