iPhone hacking/hijacking

Kurt Lang wrote:

Your phones aren't the problem. Your router and or video cameras are.

Check your router settings. If they're using any Wifi security option lower than WPA-2, change the settings so they aren't. WEP and WPA (1) were broken long ago and provide no security. If the router is so old it doesn't offer anything higher than WPA, throw it away and get a new one.

The OP should also make sure to change the Wi-Fi password on the router and local administrative password on the router to ones that an intruder cannot easily guess. The administrative password is the one you would use to log into the router and change settings like whether to use Wi-Fi security in the first place.

Some people leave the passwords set to defaults like LINKSYS or PASSWORD that would take an intruder only a few seconds to try, in the hopes of an easy break-in.

Your phones aren't the problem. Your router and or video cameras are.

Check your router settings. If they're using any Wifi security option lower than WPA-2, change the settings so they aren't. WEP and WPA (1) were broken long ago and provide no security. If the router is so old it doesn't offer anything higher than WPA, throw it away and get a new one.

Your security cameras may be picking up stray radio signals from nearby sources. Try turning them off. If the problem goes away, then you know the cameras are the source of the ghost overlying signals.

Kurt Lang wrote:

Your security cameras may be picking up stray radio signals from nearby sources. Try turning them off. If the problem goes away, then you know the cameras are the source of the ghost overlying signals.

+1 The security cameras usually operate on the much congested 2.4 Ghz range where interference is common. Cordless phones and Baby Monitors also operate on that same frequency and will pick up those communications as well. In addition, if the Security Cameras are older, they may only work on a router that uses the WEP security standard that is no longer secure.

On older routers, that is a common problem. I'm sure you've seen as many old routers as I have with admin as the user name, and no password at all. Sometimes it's the reverse. No user name and admin as the password.

All newer routers I've seen come preconfigured with hard to guess user names and passwords. Which you can of course change in the settings, along the Wifi access passwords.