Ukraine’s SBU said that Russia's intelligence hacked surveillance cameras to direct a missile strike on Kyiv

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Man, I hadn’t thought of that as being a threat.

  There are probably zillions of brands of inexpensive, insecure cameras out there from companies that have gone out of business and which were poorly-set-up or configured. Usually not a huge issue, but for military operations in urban areas, it’s gonna be a pain.

  Countering that is going to be tough.

  Maybe disallow security cameras above the third story or something like that, so that any one camera can only see so much. If you can break into one way up and rotate it, which it sounds like they did, then you have good odds of being able to see a lot.

  Or disguise the military hardware, which also helps address humans who might be spying.

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  • tesseract@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you kidding me? Governments are trying to expand surveillance on us plebs by expanding their own coverage and forcing access to private ones. We wouldn’t have such cameras if they cared about our privacy or safety.

    PS: This case should be considered as a slap in the face for those “I don’t need privacy because I have nothing to hide” people

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• megopie@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I remember a while back stumbling arose a forum or web page or something that was just a list of web cams with open IPs, part of it was people playing a sort of geo gesser game and figure out exactly where the camera was.

  Always felt super weird and surreal, like, I remember two in particular, one was probably a cam in some officer building in Japan. I sat there and watched this guy work on his computer for a like a minute and realized this did probably had no idea he was being watched by some random weirdo.

  Another was a camera on what was probably a Venezuela oil rig, this one had little in built servos so it could pan left right up and down, the inputs for this were open along with the video feed. I wiggled it up and down a bunch out of fascination for like a minute, then a guy I. A hard had and a high vis fest was walking by, he froze and looked at the camera. I stoped moving it and then slowly nodded it up and down. He just started and I closed the page, feeling a little freaked out.

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  • Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you can even google unsecured webcams with querries like: inurl:/view.shtml

    and thats just the easy way,
    people are constantly portscanning all over the internet.

    if you have any device that is publicly reachable,
    people know it exists, and will try to hack it

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    • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      www.shodan.io/search?query=webcam

      Geolocalized for easier browsing.

      I always suggest everyone to check their own IP in shodan, lots of surprises await.

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• sub_@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I remember Mirai botnet that scanned for default password on IoT cameras.

  They could definitely become a weak link.

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