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AI to greatly enhance urban surveillance technologies

January 25, 2022

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

July 8, 2020

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

January 16, 2018

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

September 20, 2017

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

October 12, 2016

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

June 28, 2016

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

October 23, 2015

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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