Videos: streaming από κάμερες επιτήρησης σε όλο τον κόσμο είναι διαθέσιμες στο κοινό σε μία ιστοσελίδα, όχι επειδή έχουν παραβιαστεί, αλλά επειδή οι ιδιοκτήτες τους δεν κατάφεραν να προστατεύσουν την πρόσβαση χρησιμοποιώντας ένα κωδικό access.
Insufficient security protection is bound to be controlled by third parties. Nonetheless, many users seem to appreciate their privacy, not even their customers. Do not laugh because you may well be the customer that your store, hotel, or business has taken advantage of in the air.
So, administrators of the insecam.com website have created a system that automatically searches webcams and DVR systems that for their protection against unauthorized access have the default username and password the classic pair admin: admin and admin: 12345 2014 please).
You may wonder how there may be users to send stream video on the internet having left the default name and pass? And yet they exist and the worst thing 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 just as you can see this information, so can hackers online. All they have to do is press its button enrollmentand to record the victim's daily life.
Now mind you, 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 tools that help you locate them. The 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 new ones are constantly being added. If you recognize a place you know, you can ask its owners to remove them modes, 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.
In 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.
