{"id":148525,"date":"2017-01-03T09:08:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T07:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=148525"},"modified":"2017-01-03T14:55:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T12:55:21","slug":"watch-how-criminals-get-past-your-houses-security-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/148525\/watch-how-criminals-get-past-your-houses-security-sensors\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch how criminals get past your house&#8217;s security sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New footage has emerged of criminals trying to break into a home, and how they move across your lawn to avoid security sensors.<\/p>\n<p>Many homes have outdoor sensors installed as a further safety measure to protect their homes from criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>The sensor beams are spread across the yard, around the house, and are set to trigger an alarm once disturbed. However, some sensors are adjusted to not reach below a certain height to avoid having pets &#8211; large dogs in particular &#8211; trigger the alarm.<\/p>\n<p>The footage shows\u00a0that criminals are aware of this limitation to the sensors, using the &#8216;pet-friendly&#8217; system to their advantage. The video shows a criminal crawling across the grass and checking for potential entry points into the house.<\/p>\n<p>The unsettling\u00a0footage was captured by CCTV over December 2016.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pQeIrhr1KUw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Watch: How ATM skimmers are used to steal your money\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/145891\/watch-how-atm-skimmers-are-used-to-steal-your-money\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Watch: How ATM skimmers are used to steal your money<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New footage has emerged of criminals trying to break into a home, and how they move across your lawn to avoid security sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":148535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-148525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148525"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148633,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148525\/revisions\/148633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}