Over the past four years, I’ve posted several links to news stories identifying privacy and security concerns with Foscam baby cams. When I saw another story recently about parents being frightened by a stranger controlling their baby cam remotely, I tweeted, “Why are these breaches still happening?” My tweet wasn’t rhetorical and [Read More…]
A company that markets video cameras designed to allow consumers to monitor their homes remotely has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that its lax security practices exposed the private lives of hundreds of consumers to public viewing on the Internet. This is the agency’s first action against a marketer of [Read More…]
Brian Krebs reports: A bug in the software that powers a broad array of Webcams, IP surveillance cameras and baby monitors made by Chinese camera giant Foscam allows anyone with access to the device’s Internet address to view live and recorded video footage, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The issue came to light on the company’s [Read More…]
Kashmir Hill has a disturbing follow-up to a report she did about how someone easily hacked into a baby monitor and said lewd things that the baby and homeowner could hear. Shodan crawls the Internet looking for devices, many of which are programmed to answer. It has found cars, fetal [Read More…]