Posted On 09 Mar 2021

NurseryCam Concerns
NurseryCam, which offers remote video monitoring services allowing parents to see their children in nursery, has experienced a data breach in which an unauthorized actor has accessed client accounts, harvesting email addresses, names, passwords, and usernames. It appears that the attacker was not acting maliciously but attempting to signpost weaknesses in security for the company; thus far all they have done is inform the company of what has happened and how it was achieved.
This is not the first time that NurseryCam has been in the news for the wrong reasons: in 2015, concerned parents raised the possibility that anyone on the Internet could potentially access the company’s cameras and view their children while at nursery. It is believed that the company took action to remedy this breach and that it is not connected with this most recent problem.

LinkedIn Dropped Out
LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network, suffered a massive two hour global outage on February 23, from 2 pm to 4:21 pm ET. The network did not give any reasons for this drop in service, although their Twitter account jokingly attempted to pin the blame on the WandaVision character Agatha. Outages are uncommon for LinkedIn, with the last big problem coming in January 2020 when for a time it was impossible to make any posts or link with any other users; however, this latest incident was a full global outage rather than a loss of any functionality.