Re: Cheap DVR's Get Hacked

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/2/2013 10:21 PM, spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Saturday, February 2, 2013 9:14:01 AM UTC-5, JoeRaisin wrote:
>> On 2/1/2013 3:07 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
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>>> "JoeRaisin" <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> news:kech5b$ha4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>>> On 1/30/2013 8:21 PM, Frank Kurz wrote:
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>>>>> On 1/30/2013 10:58 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
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>>>>>> "Frank Kurz" <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>>>> news:v_qdnSlB07rQW5XMnZ2dnUVZ_qudnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>>>>>> On 1/29/2013 10:51 AM, Bill wrote:
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>>>>>>>> In article <d03c0282-39d9-453a-b233-e2a9d9f58639@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
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>>>>>>>> chriswheeldon@xxxxxxxxx says...
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>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>> Every now and then I think "maybe the cheap store-bought DVR's
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>>>>>>>>> aren't so bad for the price," then I find a link like this...
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>>>>>>>>> http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/01/29/0111238/58000-security-camera-systems-critically-vulnerable-to-attackers
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>>>>>>>>> Enjoy.
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>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>> I once worked for a company which had their personnel / payroll
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>>>>>>>> computer
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>>>>>>>> (mainframe with terminals for employees) in a separate locked metal
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>>>>>>>> cage
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>>>>>>>> in the computer room. NOT connected to the internet. And all wires
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>>>>>>>> going
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>>>>>>>> to terminals in the personnel office run in metal conduit pipes!
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>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>> Other high security computers are NOT connected to any phone lines or
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>>>>>>>> the internet.
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>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>> I guess that is a good idea!
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>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> We live in a scary world.  My son's PlayStation account information
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>>>>>>> was one of the ones that were compromised when Sony got hacked.  Sony
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>>>>>>> was complacent about security and left their customers vulnerable.
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>>>>>>> Totally unacceptable for a company to not take appropriate precautions
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>>>>>>> in this day and age.  My son will never buy another Sony branded
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>>>>>>> product as a result.
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>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>> Fire Protection Technicians Network
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>>>>>>> www.firetechs.net
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>>>>>> You guys know Chinese IBMs were manufactured with spyware on the bios
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>>>>>> right? When the spyware is inside your network already its like trying
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>>>>>> to block Skype.  You can't.  It would not surprise me to find out that
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>>>>>> this was not a flaw, but a designed exploit.
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>>>>>>
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>>>>> Good point.  That's likely the reason why security equipment from China
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>>>>> is so cheap!
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>>>>>
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>>>>> *** Buy this cheap DVR for $79.99 and pay thousands more later after we
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>>>>> hack it and threaten to send your wife/girlfriend/best buddies/PETA
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>>>>> pictures of you naked screwing that duck. ***
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>>>>>
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>>>>> What a racket!
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>>>>>
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>>>>> :-)
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>>>>
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>>>> Well YOU try screwing a duck without raising a racket...
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>>> Besides... anybody doing the boinky boinky thing in front of a camera
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>>> has got to expect somebody else is going to see it eventually.
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>> First five rules of sexual shenanigans (which includes affairs and/or
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>> embarrassing behaviors/partners), never write anything down, never take
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>> any pictures, deny, deny, deny...
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>> Having done more than a few camera installs, and having installed and/or
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>> serviced systems with covert cameras and those with full perimeter
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>> coverage, I just assume that anytime I am out of my house, I am on some
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>> sort of a camera.
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>> And sooner or later, those cameras are going to able to do the shit they
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>> already do in movies and on the TV.
>
> Ever watch the TV show "Person of Interest"?
> Now....Go Google­? "Trapwire"
>

I love person of interest and know what you're talking about.

Heck, just the run of the mill security cameras that connect to the 'net
are bad enough, imagine if someone really could hack any camera lens
that exists...