CNET – “Last year, an ADT customer noticed an unfamiliar email address connected to her home security account — a professionally monitored system that included cameras and other devices inside her home. That simple discovery, and her report of it to the company, began to topple a long line of dominoes leading back to a technician who had spied, over the course of four and a half years, on hundreds of customers, watching them live their private lives…. ADT says it has closed the loopholes that the technician exploited, implementing “new safeguards, training and policies to strengthen… account security and customer privacy.” But invasions of privacy are not unique to ADT and some vulnerabilities are harder to safeguard than others. Whether you’re using professionally monitored security systems like ADT, Comcast Xfinity or Vivint, or you just have a few standalone cameras from off-the-shelf companies like Ring, Nest or Arlo, here are a few practices that can help protect your device security and data privacy…”