{"id":1717,"date":"2012-07-24T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T09:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2022-12-01T13:16:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:16:31","slug":"surveillance-cctv-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/2012\/07\/24\/surveillance-cctv-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers reveal the vulnerability of CCTV cameras."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a world where <strong>surveillance CCTV cameras<\/strong> are quite wide spread and often give us the impression of living in a huge Big Brother. Despite the various controversies about privacy, they have, however, proved their effectiveness in preventing crimes and in helping to identify and stop dangerous criminals.<\/p>\n<h2>The Vulnerability of Surveillance CCTV cameras<\/h2>\n<p>However, it has been shown that the usual <strong>closed circuit television cameras<\/strong> have a very weak safety system: they are often sold with Internet remote access enabled by default, and with a preset weak password. This allows hackers to control them and to favour, in this way, criminal actions.<\/p>\n<p>According to researcher Justin Cacak, safety manager of Gotham Digital Science, as a result of &#8220;penetration tests&#8221; carried out for customers to discover the <strong>vulnerability of the security<\/strong> of their Surveillance CCTV cameras networks, it has been demonstrated how these devices can be hacked and viewed from any part of the world.<br \/>\nBanks, research laboratories, universities, businesses, homes and other sensitive sites, are thus exposed to a huge risk: hackers could take control and steal important information and projects, or simply violate the privacy of thousands of people without these may realize.<\/p>\n<p>So, <strong>remote access<\/strong> to these Surveillance CCTV cameras is possible if the manufacturer allows such an access as a default setting. Moreover, in most cases, these settings remain permanently for the simple fact that users do not know how to change them, because they&#8217;re not experts. The situation appears even worst if you consider the fact that preset passwords are very weak and thus easily decipherable.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, according to experts headed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrazytourist.com\/15-best-things-cacak-serbia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cacak,<\/a> it was possible to enter the conference rooms of different important companies, such as the Boardroom of Goldman Sachs. That&#8217;s why it would be important, according to researchers, <strong>disable remote access<\/strong> to these surveillance cameras, provide them with stronger password or simply use a different type of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/spy-cameras.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>micro-cameras<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a world where surveillance CCTV cameras are quite wide spread and often give us the impression of living in a huge Big Brother. Despite the various controversies about privacy, they have, however, proved their effectiveness in preventing crimes and in helping to identify and stop dangerous criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","two-columns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}