Your CCTV devices can be hacked and weaponized
In this interview for Help Net Security, Camellia Chan, CEO at Flexxon, talks about the dangers of closed-circuit television (CCTV) hacks and what users can do to protect …
AI to greatly enhance urban surveillance technologies
Urban surveillance and public safety technologies are finding new use cases following the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing AI capabilities. COVID-19 has spurred the use of …
Exposing the privacy risks of home security cameras
An international study has used data from a major provider of home IP security cameras to evaluate potential privacy risks for users. Privacy-compromising information IP home …
DoS attacks against hard disk drives using acoustic signals
A group of Princeton and Purdue researchers has shown that it’s possible to mount a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against hard disk drives via acoustic signals. Threat …
Using security cameras and infrared light to extract data from air-gapped networks
Researchers have demonstrated that it’s possible for attackers to covertly exfiltrate data from and send data into an air-gapped network by using the infrared light …
130,000 Avtech IP cameras, DVRs can be easily roped into IoT botnets
Security researcher Gergely Eberhardt has unearthed over dozen of vulnerabilities in most IP cameras, NVRs and DVRs by Taiwanese manufacturer Avtech, including things like …
25,000-strong CCTV botnet used for crippling DDoS attacks
A DDoS attack against a jewelry shop website has lead researchers to the discovery of a CCTV botnet comprised of some 25,000 cameras from around the globe. The website had …
CCTV botnets proliferate due to unchanged default factory credentials
Incapsula researchers have uncovered a botnet consisting of some 9,000 CCTV cameras located around the world, which was being used to target, among others, one of the …
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