SCARY NEW APP LETS YOU SPY ON PEOPLES UNSECURE WEBCAMS

[ReedeFox]

A Chinese news station have just reported that there is now a new app that allows users to access and browse through webcams whose default passwords haven’t been changed. Subscribers pay $28 for the app and can look into people’s bedrooms, living rooms, anywhere where there's a webcam set up. How fucked up is that?



It's pretty much just hundreds of thousands of hackable webcams that have shit or unchanged default passwords. Eugene Aseev, vice-president of engineering at data protection firm said:

Once there is a weakness or vulnerability found in this firmware, all these devices [will] start to share this weakness or vulnerability.
Once you have unpacked a brand new internet-connected piece of hardware, spend a little time playing with its configuration. Common default unchanged [passwords] on thousands of devices…is a primary flaw that is being leveraged by attackers.

And this is why I put duct tape over all the cameras in my house. If you've not changed your password in a while guys, now is the time to do it.

[Friday]

This just further reinforces my belief that laptops should not come with inbuilt webcams, unless you specifically ask for one.