Posted on 01/23/2019 6:09:11 PM PST by bitt
Edited on 01/23/2019 8:48:09 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
Nest urged owners of its security cameras Tuesday to use enhanced authentication to thwart hackers, after one terrified a family with a hoax nuclear missile attack.
A couple living in a California town near San Francisco told local media they experienced "sheer terror" over the weekend when a Nest security camera atop their family's television issued a realistic-sounding warning of missiles heading to the United States from North Korea.
(Excerpt) Read more at securityweek.com ...
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“People can check online at sites such as www.haveibeenpwned.com to see whether their email addresses have been found in troves of stolen data.”
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Let me see if I understand this..... go to an e-mail to see if you’ve been punked. Wonder what would happen if THAT site then gets hacked with all the additional information?
“commandeered camera control” is a sentence that probably terrifies some folks for other reasons . . .
www.haveibeenpwned.com
ENTER YOUR EMAIL TO SEE IF YOUR EMAIL HAS BEEN EXPOSED.
I entered my email and saw the same 4 instances my email was exposed that I saw at experian. Exposed, not cracked.
bad enough our cell phones are spying on us..go ogle knows all...
Another Network of Things designed with almost zero security.
Again, stay away from these, folks.
Compared to the malicious stuff they could have done, broadcasting a fake nuke alert is fairly mild. And I think rather hilarious, especially if the owner was a one of the “no nukes” types.
“People can check online at sites such as www.haveibeenpwned.com to see whether their email addresses have been found in troves of stolen data.”
How do I know this site is ran by the hackers themselves?
Just like the IP Camera security site that scans the ports of the your router to check to see if it can get in any of your cameras or devices
Or that email site, where you type in your email address and password to see if you account has been “hacked”
people actually trust these sites? The hackers could be running them, themselves.
Opposed to ‘shaken and not stirred,’ I guess.
Okay. Sick, I admit. It was the first thought in my little pea brain when I read your reply.
I hope generations following me still quote from movies!
So glad for your being cracked and not exposed.
Strange though that sounds. LOL
I would be more worried they can spy on anyone with the camera like Alexis and the others like them.
IP cameras: United States - click on Countries to view other countries
https://www.insecam.org/en/bycountry/US/
Peeping into 73,000 unsecured security cameras thanks to default passwords
https://www.csoonline.com/article/2844283/microsoft-subnet/peeping-into-73-000-unsecured-security-cameras-thanks-to-default-passwords.html
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