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Amazon's Ring reveals where it's partnering with law enforcement
Amazon's Ring security service now works with 405 law enforcement agencies across the US. Today, Ring released a map showing every police department it's partnered with, as well as details on when each partnership began. The hundreds of departments listed have access to Ring's Neighbors Portal, which allows them to request footage from Ring's video doorbells.
Now the Android Gmail app keeps an eye out for phishing links
In a particularly timely upgrade, Google is rolling out new protection against phishing links on its Gmail app for Android. According to the notes, when a user clicks on a suspicious link, they'll get a warning like the one shown above revealing that this could lead to a forged website (similar warnings came to web Gmail last year). Interestingly, this wouldn't have done much to mitigate the fake Google Docs invite that went around earlier since that linked to Google's own website. Still, we have more than enough evidence of what havoc can come about as a result of one fake email -- it's good to see Google doing more to protect users.
Suspicious 'game board' causes airport evacuation
A suspicious item found yesterday at Long Beach Airport, Calif. caused the terminal to be evacuated for about 90 minutes and left five aircraft stranded on the tarmac. The item, found in a checked bag, ended up being a "handheld game board." Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Peppin says, "It certainly was nothing but it certainly looked like something. It had all the wires and components that you would see in an explosive device." The bomb squad was called to the airport -- but no word if they disposed of the nefarious device. Also, the adult passenger is "being interviewed."We wonder if those TSA agents played the Airport Security game to train for their jobs. So, best suggestion on how to avoid a similar incident would probably be not to put your gaming devices together in your bag. A bundled up package of DS, games with cord could look like a bomb to the untrained eye TSA. Better safe than sorry, please wrap each component separately and keep your DS and/or PSP on your body at all times.[Thanks Tacohead]
