![]() You have to have a way to recover or reset it.Ī good password reset procedure includes some safety protocols to make sure that you are who you claim to be. The reality is that we're all human and people forget passwords. People are Human, and Forget PasswordsĪll devices that use a password need to have a "forgot password" override protocol. This is also why Congress recently banned several security camera equipment manufacturers from federal jobs. ![]() Nuclear power plants, military tech, and Internet Service Providers are at risk. The reality is that the processors in low-cost security cameras are being used to attack critical US infrastructure by hostile foreign actors. Blacking out critical military tech, like battlefield communications, or GPS location data can result in loss of life and change the outcome of a battle. If you bring the dozens of servers that maintain an energy grid, down simultaneously, you can blackout or part (or all) of a country. Also, there are types of servers that really should never be rebooted-the energy grid or your ISP hubs, for example. This may sound like it is not a big deal, but it is.īecause servers are more vulnerable when rebooting, this can expose them to have malicious code injected into them during this reboot process. This causes it to crash and have to reboot. A DDOS attack is a type of cyber warfare that brings down servers by giving those servers an unprecedented number of requests at such a frequency and scale that the server just gets overwhelmed and can't process anything. What is a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) AttackĭDOS is basically the computer equivalent of someone who interrupts you repeatedly, but millions of times a second. In other words, a botnet is when 10,000 or 10,000,000 devices with a processor (like most modern security cameras) can be controlled in mass remotely, and are directed to perform a DDOS attack (Distributed Denial of Service). Botnets can include PCs with viruses or IoT (internet of things) devices like smart thermostats or security cameras that have malware or have such easy access to their administration accounts, that they can be collectively controlled by remote code execution. Most troubling is that some hackers are using the cameras to create a botnet.Ī botnet is a collection of internet-connected devices (things with processors) that have malicious code on them that can be used to collectively attack other high-value targets. Other's are reporting wide-scale disabling of camera feeds. It tries to drop a downloader that exhibits infection behavior." One payload in particular caught our attention. Some installers of cheaper systems are reporting things like, "One of our property managers had her bank account compromised because of the back door access to her network, through this camera" or the hack reported by Forinet which claimed "we observed numerous payloads attempting to leverage this vulnerability to probing the status of devices or extracting sensitive data from victims. Just because a camera is programmed to take video doesn't mean that its processor can't be reprogrammed to watch for credit card numbers being transmitted across your networks, or catalog and copy all internal documents or emails, or be used to send outgoing messages or requests. A Processor is a Processor, Whether it is in a Camera or a Computer The real issue isn't hackers looking into the camera feeds (although that can be a very big invasion of privacy) as much as they are using the camera's processors to do something that the camera was not designed to do. You're probably thinking, "I don't have anything important enough on camera for a hacker to look at, so this doesn't concern me," but that's not what's happening. It is estimated that over 1 Million Dahua / Lorex cameras have been affected by the Bashlight malware. On Nov 15th, 2017, The Washington Post claimed that Dahua (Lorex) added this backdoor "deliberately based on the way the code was written." ![]() On Oct 23rd, 2017, Forbes called the vulnerability "The Next Web Crisis" since the hackers have access but have hardly used the devices, yet. On Sept 25th, 2017, Dahua (Lorex), a major competitor of SCW, had all of their camera systems hacked and put into the Mirai botnet and customers lost their video feeds. Vice news called this Mirai botnet, in 2016, "the biggest attack we've ever seen." 30, 2016, the Wall Street Journal found that several additional major manufacturers of security camera were hacked in a different attack, and the cameras and recorders were used to wreck havoc on US companies and network infrastructure, resulting in massive amounts of lost productivity when the internet was down for nearly twenty-four hours in most of the USA. Early in 2016, PC Word found a 25,000 camera network that was compromised and being prepared for an attack. ![]()
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