185,000+ vulnerable Wi-Fi cameras just waiting to be hijacked

[Gerald309]

185,000+ vulnerable Wi-Fi cameras just waiting to be hijacked
Posted on Mar 09, 2017 07:45 pm
A generic wireless camera manufactured by a Chinese company and sold around the world under different names and brands can be easily hijacked and/or roped into a botnet. The flaw that allows this to happen is found in a custom version of GoAhead, a lightweight embedded web server that has been fitted into the devices. This and other vulnerabilities have been found by security researcher Pierre Kim, who tested one of the branded cameras – … More →
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