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 …
Beetle-mounted camera streams insect adventures – BBC
You have seen it in the movies – an insect sized spy camera – now it is a fact!
