Collaborate Disseminate
Cameras are getting less and less conspicuous. Now they’re hiding under the skin of robots.
A team of researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland have recently created a multi-camera optical tactile sensor that is able to monitor the space around it based on contact force distribution. The sensor uses a …read more
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In a world of hackable things, protocols in surveillance cameras sometimes get overlooked. The cameras used in commercial buildings aren’t necessarily a priority for researchers looking for the next big intrusion, and the devices are often seen as one-dimensional targets that only yield the data they collect. But that misses the point of how a camera can be a gateway to other devices in a building. Hacking an internet-connected camera could give an attacker a pathway to a device controlling physical access to a facility, for example. That concern prompted researchers at Forescout Technologies to dissect surveillance cameras in their test lab in the Netherlands. What they found were widely used cameras using weak communication protocols to transmit data over unencrypted channels. The researchers were able to carry out a “man-in-the-middle attack,” which intercepts and manipulates data, to replace footage recorded by the camera with their own. Altering security footage at an airport, for example, could be […]
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Only a year has passed since Sony rolled out its ultra-compact RX100 VI with blazing fast autofocus, but the company has already deemed it fit for a refresh. The RX100 VII arrives with the same 24-200mm telephoto lens as its predecessor, but … Continue reading Sony ramps up its blistering autofocus with RX100 VII ultra-compact camera
Lens filters are an important tool for many DSLR photographers, but dealing with different diameter lenses, stepping-rings, square filter mounts and the rest can be frustrating and expensive. But now, an ingenious filter system for mirrorless camera adapter mounts looks to shake everything up – except your photos.
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Sony has upped the ante considerably on its latest A7 full-frame camera. The A7R IV offers 61-megapixel resolution, 15-stop dynamic range, monster real-time autofocus in photo and video modes, twin ultra-high speed SD card slots and pixel-shi… Continue reading Sony crams 61 megapixels and wild autofocus into its new full-frame A7R IV
The Zoom conferencing app has a vulnerability that allows someone to remotely take over the computer’s camera. It’s a bad vulnerability, made worse by the fact that it remains even if you uninstall the Zoom app: This vulnerability allows any website to… Continue reading Zoom Vulnerability
The Zoom conferencing app has a vulnerability that allows someone to remotely take over the computer’s camera. It’s a bad vulnerability, made worse by the fact that it remains even if you uninstall the Zoom app: This vulnerability allows any website to forcibly join a user to a Zoom call, with their video camera activated, without the user’s permission. On… Continue reading Zoom Vulnerability
Homeowners trying to protect their property with surveillance cameras and smart locks may have actually made their households more vulnerable, according to security flaws unveiled by separate teams of researchers Tuesday. The Netgear Arlo system, which the company says streams more than 100 million videos every day, and certain types of Zipato smart hubs, which can lock or unlock doors, are affected by security flaws detailed in unrelated announcements from Tenable and researchers Chase Dardaman and Jason Wheeler, respectively. The discoveries again demonstrate how the same technology that promises to make life more convenient and secure also can put consumers at risk. Patches are available for both vulnerabilities, and hackers would need physical access in both cases to carry out attacks. The weakness in the Arlo devices could allow malicious outsiders to take control of all the cameras connected to a single hub, at which point they could disable the video […]
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It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. Maybe a bored guard watched a dozen different screens, scanning for something interesting. In either case, the video w… Continue reading Computers and Video Surveillance
It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. Maybe a bored guard watched a dozen different screens, scanning for something interesting. In either case, the video was only stored for a few days because storage was expensive. Increasingly, none of that is true. Recent… Continue reading Computers and Video Surveillance