Category Archives: security cameras

185,000+ vulnerable Wi-Fi cameras just waiting to be hijacked

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A generic wireless camera manufactured by a Chinese company and sold around the world under different names and brands can be easily hijacked and/or roped into a botnet. The flaw that allows this to happen is found in a custom version of GoAhead, a lightweight embedded web server that has been fitted into the devices. This and other vulnerabilities have been found by security researcher Pierre Kim, who tested one of the branded cameras – … More → Continue reading 185,000+ vulnerable Wi-Fi cameras just waiting to be hijacked→

BASHLITE malware turning millions of Linux Based IoT Devices into DDoS botnet

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Researchers have exposed millions of Linux-based IoT devices infected with BASHLITE

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Unsecured security cameras lead to privacy erosion

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The results of a recent analysis of some 6,000 open security cameras across the United States has shown that 15 percent of them are located in users’ private homes. Open cameras are those whose feeds are open to anyone because they are protected with a widely known default password, or not password-protected at all. While we expect feeds of cameras in public places like streets, shops, libraries and so on to be accessible to a … More → Continue reading Unsecured security cameras lead to privacy erosion→