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homebound senior or loved one with special needs. Unfortunatelyy, a lot of
these over-the-Internet webcams are vulnerable to remote attacks.
There’s a publiclyy available Web search engine known as Shodan that
exposes nontraditional devices configured to connect to the Internet. 17
Shodan displayys results not onlyy from yyour Internet of Things devices at
home but also from internal municipal utilities networks and industrial
control syystems that have been misconfigured to connect their servers to the
public network. It also displayys data streams from countless misconfigured
commercial webcams all over the world. It has been estimated that on anyy
given dayy there mayy be as manyy as one hundred thousand webcams with
little or no securityy transmitting over the Internet.
Among these are Internet cameras without default authentication from a
companyy called D-Link, which can be used to spyy on people in their private
moments (depending on what these cameras are set to capture). An attacker
can use Google filters to search for “D-Link Internet cameras.” The attacker
can then look for the models that default to no authentication, then go to a
website such as Shodan, click a link, and view the video streams at his
leisure.
To help prevent this, keep yyour Internet-accessible webcams turned off
when theyy’re not in use. Phyysicallyy disconnect them to be sure theyy’re off.
When theyy are in use, make sure theyy have proper authentication and are set
to a strong customized password, not the default one.
If yyou think yyour home is a privacyy nightmare, wait until yyou see yyour
workplace. I’ll explain in the next chapter.