The safety of your home and family is extremely important; you want to feel that you are safe and secure at all times. With smart technology, we’re closer than ever to having that feeling.

Keeping your home, family, and possessions safe is extremely important. Burglary is one of the most common crimes committed, but it is also a crime that you can prevent from happening to you. There are many ways to make your house less appealing to thieves. Here are the top 7 tips to protect your house: If you are going to be away, make your home look occupied.

Fireplaces are lovely in the winter, but they’re also the second-most dangerous home heating option, right behind space heaters. According to a report by the Fire Protection Association, fireplaces cause 38% of home heating fires altogether, and 6% of home heating-related deaths. However, most of these fires are avoidable.

Like the humans in every evil robot movie, most people today vastly underestimate how smart AI can be. We are already at the point where a reasonable hacking rig can mathematically crack a standard 8-character password in minutes. The old tricks don’t work anymore: AI programs know about our tendency to use numbers to substitute letters, to capitalize the last letter instead of the first, etc.

Valuable merchandise, especially small things like jewelry, electronics, fine wines, and cigars that can be easily carried off, are tempting targets for thieves. Why rob registers for hundreds of dollars, when you can fill a backpack with merchandise worth thousands? If you have a valuable merchandise store, someone has likely already put thought into how to rob you.