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Owning a Wireless Camera, Its User and Its Network

Posted by Zonk on from the is-that-owning-or-pwning dept.

twistedmoney99 writes "InformIT has posted a two part article by Seth Fogie that describes how a wireless IP camera can be owned and abused. The first part describes how the camera's feed can be sniffed, replaced, or even DoSed off the air by a PDA. The second part then takes a look at the web application interface of the camera (an Axis207W) and exposes numerous vulnerabilities that lead to exposed passwords, a software based DoS, global XSS — and the kicker — a CRSF attack through which an attacker can remotely penetrate the network it is installed on."

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  1. skipping the spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative


    And people wonder why adblock is gaining 400k users a month
    this site with its multiple pages is one of the reasons

    http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1016102&rl=1

  2. Re:not too surprizing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    >I've seen far too many installations where people don't install one these http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/hgln_cat5-2.php on their externally mounted wired equipment.

    Physics says 3 inches of ANYTHING won't block a direct lightning strike that travelled through miles of air. However, as the mythbusters did show, that amount of metal (and larger) is about at the point where it might attract lightning that strikes nearby.

    Now, an indirect lightning strike it might block, perhaps; Although I wouldn't care much about the reliability of the link if the equipment on the one side has melted.

    If you're going to run a cable outside, and you get to choose the type of cable, why aren't you running fiber? For the distances ethernet is good to, it's more expensive, sure, but it's not a bank account crusher in any way that matters.