Videos: streaming from surveillance cameras around the world are publicly available on a website, not because they have been hacked, but because their owners have failed to protect access using a password.
Inadequate protection security είναι βέβαιο ότι θα γίνει αντικείμενο ελέγχου από τρίτα άτομα. Παρόλα αυτά, πολλοί χρήστες φαίνεται ότι δεν εκτιμούν την προστασία της ιδιωτικής τους ζωής, αλλά ούτε και των πελατών τους. Μην γελάτε γιατί μπορεί κάλλιστα να είστε εσείς ο πελάτης που το store, ξενοδοχείο, ή επιχείρηση σας έχει βγάλει αφελέστατα στο αέρα.
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 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.
Watch out now, in the FAQ section of the site, it is clearly stated that the availability of streaming video is not the result of a hack attempt but simply the use of publicly available and free online tools to help you locate them. Google is a way to get started, but there are other search engines that can be used, such as Shodanhq.com, which is specially designed to find online accessories based on various criteria.
"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.
In Greece there are 335 cameras and searching among them we found private villas, the interior of a hotel in Attica (lobby, swimming pool, gym, corridors, parking, etc.), shops (exterior and interior cameras that "see" the till), tutoring centers and a bunch of businesses. The photo of this article is from a hotel in Attica where we have remove some spaces that were crowded at the time of sampling, for privacy reasons.
