Hackers Watching You: 50 Million Cameras Exposed To Hackers Due To Massive Security Breach
Internet users, beware: new security research has revealed that 40-50 million network-enabled device can be hacked and controlled remotely, with vulnerable products including cameras, printers and routers.
By hijacking personal devices like cameras, hackers can easily watch the every move of the device’s owner and invade the privacy of millions of users.
Internet routers that use a protocol called Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) allow network-connected devices such as computer and printers to make themselves easily discoverable, but new research by the security firm Rapid7 shows that this discoverability can be exploited by hackers.
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Many routers are set to use the UPnP by default, thereby subjecting all network-enabled devices using the router to the damage that hackers are able to inflict. As many as 50 million unique devices can be exploited and about 6,900 products are vulnerable to software bugs that have already been found in three different implementations of the protocol.
Vendors including Cisco’s Linksys, Belkin, D-Link, and Netgear produce routers that make themselves and their connected devices susceptible to software bugs. At least 23 million types of connectible devices could be hijacked and permanently disabled, while others would face temporary incapacitation.
Using the discoverability of the devices, hackers could invade the network itself, regardless of any sort of firewalls that might be in place, thereby endangering personal information. Hackers could use UPnP-enabled routers and their devices to access confidential files, steal passwords, take full control of computers and access webcams, printers and other security systems.
“We never expected this much UPnP to be exposed on the Internet. The scope of the exposure just blew us away,”Rapid7’s chief security officer H.D. Moore told Forbes.
“This is the most pervasive bug I’ve ever seen,” he told Reuters, referring to the software bugs that Rapid7 discovered in most of the vulnerable devices that were tested.
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Rapid7 recommends that Internet users check their routers for UPnP capabilities and disable the feature to protect their devices from being invaded by hackers. The new research also prompted CERT to issue a warning and Cisco to disseminate information about their susceptible products.
“Linksys is aware of the industry-wide UPnP library security vulnerability announced by the US CERT on January 29th,” a spokesperson wrote on the company website. “We recommend Linksys customers visit our website to understand if their home router is affected, and learn how to disable UPnP through the user interface to avoid being impacted.”
Unless Internet users take steps to ensure their network’s security, tens of millions could be at risk of having their information stolen, being watched through their own webcams, or having their devices destroyed.
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Well they are not the only ones, Face book might be using our cameras and mics with our permission if it is added in next terms of service, have you ever read facebook or google’s terms of service? I did once, it is long for a reason. To keep people from reading it. You really throw away a lot of rights when you click the i agree button and then use a site.
Aside from facebook governments are doing much the same thing.
Your webcam has to be connected before any of the above could take place.
That is correct… unplug your stuff if you are worried!
However, internal cams would have to be disconnected from the logic board. Simply removing the drivers may not be enough if they could be re-installed covertly. One could simply place a piece of electrical tape over the lens, but that would not solve the issue of an internal microphone. It cannot be assumed that the mic just needs to be muted, as it is easily un-muted.
There is a tiny (22k) called UnPlug n’ Pray available free from trusted Gibson research, that will disable/re-enable the Universal Plug & Play system. It is simple to use. One click does it all.
https://www.grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm
To test it go here;
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
And while your on the website, do a port probe and be amazed at how vulnerable your computer is or is not.
You will find it under the “Exposure Test” button;
ShieldsUP!! Services
click-
ShieldsUP!! Services>All Service Ports
It’s all free and he has a lot of little test devices.
so, what’s the difference between a hacker watching everybody VS a .gov perv jerking off to your wife while she’s changing?
What youse people fail to realize is this so called ‘hacking’ wasn’t hacking at all, but criminal ‘friends’ of cops,,you know supposed ‘cop helpers’ were given the ‘in’ to the cameras by cops,,HAR! HAR! This was done to gain even more info,,than the cops can readily gain, you know they have tickets to write and such,,infonuts won’t reveal such info because of status quo beliefs held onto tightly,,but amurikans,,your cop buddies are doing you all dirty. HAR! HAR! dummy amurikans, whatcha complaining about?,,your already enslaved, your just too dumb to realise it.