A Korean cybersecurity expert has been sentenced to prison for illegally accessing and distributing private videos from vulnerable “wallpad” cameras in 400,000 private households.
A Korean cybersecurity expert has been sentenced to prison for illegally accessing and distributing private videos from vulnerable “wallpad” cameras in 400,000 private households.
While thats clearly fucked, its also a great example of why those devices should never be connected to WAN if at all possible
Anything with a camera or mic especially. My thermostat, don’t really care
You could use thermostat data to get a record of when a person is and isn’t in their home, which is also pretty sensitive information
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A separate wifi network may still be connected to WAN. The only benefit to separating from your usual wifi network is to minimize the attack surface for a bad actor to access other devices on your network. But that’s not the topic being discussed here.
If you’re suggesting that the separate wifi network not be exposed to WAN, but to be LAN only, then yes that’s one possible solution to avoiding exposing these devices to WAN, which is exactly what we suggested. But thanks for your input, dolt.
Yup. I want a home monitoring service, but I’m too lazy to go wire up my house with Ethernet, and there’s no way I’m buying anything Wi-Fi. I worked with cameras at work for years, and I know how awful their security is.
So I have no surveillance at home. I think I’m probably safer with no surveillance than insecure surveillance…