This is a very good follow on article from – When hardware reaches EOL | Smart Thinking Solutions. Device cyber security is rarely taken seriously by organisations or individuals and it is really important when that device is connected to the internet, and what device today is not connected to …
Zerobot malware targets a wide range of vulnerable devices – are your devices on the list?
From online CCTV cameras to popular router modems, Zerobot malware is infecting devices that have not been patched to build a network to carry out distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS). New Zerobot malware has 21 exploits for BIG-IP, Zyxel, D-Link devices (bleepingcomputer.com) The Bleeping Computer article has the details …
A story of an internet connected cat feeder
There is no resolution to this story of a wireless camera connected cat feeder wanting to connect to the Chinese technology company Baidu: Why is My Cat Using Baidu? And Other IoT DNS Oddities – SANS Internet Storm Center The Internet of Things promises so many nice things – like …
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Connected technology reaches everywhere – it is the internet of things. But some of those things surely need special attention to their security?
Like medical devices: Four vulnerabilities discovered in popular infusion pumps, WiFi batteries – The Record by Recorded Future Your takeaway from this is to look at your IoT and connected devices (such as CCTV) and check they meet your cybersecurity standard, are patched and secured and if administered by a …
CCTV cameras being exploited
For a small business or home office, it seems very easy today to set up your own “view from anywhere” CCTV system, but we often find the security is not correctly configured. Add to that that the manufacturer’s security can be faulty… Over 80,000 exploitable Hikvision cameras exposed online – …
A challenge to facial recognition surveillance
There are a lot of issues around facial recognition (Kostka, Steinacker and Meckel. 2021). Law enforcement likes it, that makes sense, but then where do they get their footage to examine from? Should we have privacy when we walk down a street? What happens if the machine learning behind the …
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CCTV Camera vulnerabilities – are your IoT devices letting hackers into your house or office?
When did you last check your IoT devices? SANS Internet Storm Diary is reporting a cyber security issue with “Hikvision’s popular Internet of things (IoT) security camera”. Hikvision Security Cameras Potentially Exposed to Remote Code Execution (sans.edu) If you have any of these internet connected cameras, check them now. Even …
