Videos: streaming surveillance cameras around the world are available to the public on a website, not because they have been tampered with, but because their owners have failed to protect access by using a password.
The incomplete protection security is certain to be subject to third-party review. However, many users don't seem to value their privacy, and neither do their customers. Don't laugh because you may very well be the customer that your store, hotel, or business has needlessly ripped off.
So the administrators of the insecam.com website have created a system that automatically searches for Internet cameras and DVR systems that to protect them from unauthorized access have the default username and password the classic pair admin: admin and admin: 12345 (in 2014 please).
You may be wondering how can there be users who send stream video on the internet having left the default name and pass? And yet there are and the worst part is that they are usually professionals.
Please note that cameras built into personal computers or USB-connected cameras are not taken into account. But besides these, there are also IP cameras (cameras with built-in IP address to be able to connect directly to the Internet) that are used for house control, indoor or outdoor, or even in public places avoid thefts.
It seems that administrators of the insecam.com website want to raise awareness about the importance of implementing a personal password to keep the data private, otherwise anyone can search the Internet and find cameras using default credentials to access .
Also imagine that as you can see this information you can do the same to burglars and even online. All they have to do is press the register button and record the daily life of the victim.
Notice now, in the FAQ section of the website it is clearly stated that the availability of stream videos is not the result of a hack attempt, but simply the use of publicly available and free online εργαλείων που σας βοηθούν να τα εντοπίσετε. Το Google είναι ένας τρόπος για να ξεκινήσετε, αλλά υπάρχουν και άλλες μηχανές αναζήτησης που μπορούν να χρησιμοποιηθούν, όπως το Shodanhq.com που είναι ειδικά σχεδιασμένο για την εύρεση στο διαδίκτυο εξαρτημάτων με βάση διάφορα κριτήρια.
"The owners of these cameras use the default password for an unknown reason. There are many ways to search for such cameras on the internet using Google, search software or other specialized search sites, ”we read in the site FAQ.
Tens of thousands of cameras are on insecam.com, and they are continually adding new ones. If you recognize a well-known place, you can ask its owners to turn them off or change the default password.
At the time we wrote this article, 12 in November 2014, the top of the list with insecure IP cameras is the United States with 11.046, the Republic of Korea with 6.536, China with 4.770, etc. With a snapshot account we value the total around 73.000.
At Greece there are 335 cameras and searching among them we found private villas, the interiors of a hotel in Attica (lobby, swimming pool, gym treadmills, parking etc), shops (external and internal cameras that "see" the box office), tutoring and a lot of business. The photo of this article is from a hotel in Attica where we have removed some places that were crowded at the time of sampling, for reasons of privacy.
