Peeping into 73,000 unsecured security cameras thanks to default passwords

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Net neutrality advocates: Hybrid approach won't work NASA pondering $1.5 million stratospheric airship competition Network World Daily News PM November 07, 2014 Peeping into 73,000 unsecured security cameras thanks to default passwords Yesterday I stumbled onto a site indexing 73,011 locations with unsecured security cameras in 256 countries …unsecured as in "secured" with default usernames and passwords. The site with an IP address from Russia is further broken down into insecure security cameras by the manufacturers Foscam, Linksys, Panasonic, some listed only as "IP cameras," as well as AvTech and Hikvision DVRs. 11,046 of the links were to U.S. locations, more than any other country; one link could have up to eight or 16 channels, meaning that's how many different security camera views were displayed on one page. insecam Truthfully, I was torn about linking to the site which claims to be "designed in order to show the importance of security settings;" the purpose of the site is supposedly to show how not changing the default password means that the security surveillance system is "available for all Internet users" to view. Change the defaults to secure the camera, to make it private, and it disappears from the index. According to FAQs, people who choose not to secure their cameras can write the site administrator and ask for the URL to be removed. 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