"OK got it...it's not rocket science.."
Posted on 12/20/2018 8:24:25 AM PST by bgill
A terrifying moment for a Houston-area family. The parents of a four-month old boy say a man hacked into their Nest Wi-Fi camera and threatened to kidnap their baby. "We heard sexual expletives being said in his room. So we throw on the light in our room. He turned that camera on and told us, said 'turn off the light' and then said, 'I'm going to kidnap your baby, I'm in your baby's room,'" said Ellen Rigney, the baby's mother. The parents raced up the stairs and found their son safe and sound.
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I'll go out on a limb here: UserName = "Admin"; Password = "Password"
"Hacked" -- SNORT!
*Change your SSID to something unique. (No, "FBI Surveillance Van," while cute, is hardly unique.) Then make your network password something hard to guess. It's not rocket science.*
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"OK got it...it's not rocket science.."
I seriously doubt this guy was within WiFi range and needed the SSIS. There is zero point making your SSID invisible or complex when there are tools like inSSIDer, NetStumbler, or Kismet that can scan the network for a short while to show all of the current networks out there. A hidden or complex SSIS does nothing to enhance your security. The biggest problem by far is not changing the default username or password on the camera.
Why on earth do people have baby monitors anyway?
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I recently bought a wi-fi printer, and it appears to have set up its own wi-fi network (I can see it as an optional network in my area).
It is connected to my home wi-fi, but I'm not certain the printer is secure itself.
My home wi-fi is as secure as I can make it, along with my router username/password, but I don't know a darn thing about the printer.
I can't seem to find anything on it in the manual. I do know that it requires a PIN that prints from the computer physically when I first print from a device, but after that, I'm not sure, as I've not used it much.
To monitor the baby?
SECURE your WIFI. It is simple.
We are the ‘baby’ monitors, not a camera...
Parents have been monitoring babies for eons-—this is just another unneeded “gadget” for the home.
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No, actually it does. The authentication token that the secure wifi protocol uses depends on both the SSID and password. Hackers have precomputed tables with tokens for common SSID/password combinations. If you have an obscure SSID, sure, they can see it, but it's not on their precomuputed table and they would have to (possibly write code) to try it against (a big number) of possible passwords.
Google "wifi rainbow table" for more info.
If the camera is open to the Internet, then it definitely needs its login credentials changed from the default — you are right. Not sure why you would export a baby monitor to the Internet, though.
So you can check in on baby from the bar! Duh!
Think your SSID can't be discovered? Check out what your phone is broadcasting about you (published three months ago)...
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