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Is your Dropcam live feed being watched by someone else? |
August 04, 2014
Dropcam, the popular video monitoring camera, bills itself as “super simple security.” But a pair of researchers plan to show at the Defcon hacking conference later this week how a Dropcam could be a weak point.Patrick Wardle and Colby Moore, both of whom work for security firm Synack, tore apart a US$200 Dropcam and figured out how its software works.They found several vulnerabilities, none of which granted the holy grail of remote online access, but say their examination portends security problems because of the increasing pervasiveness of Internet-connected embedded devices, often referred to as the “Internet of things.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2461000/is-your-dropcam-live-feed-being-watched-by-someone-else.html#tk.rss_all
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