Push To Hack: Reverse Engineering an IP Camera (contextis.com)

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 4, 2016 @05:27AM from the well-lookie-here dept.

New submitter tetraverse writes: For our most recent IoT adventure, we've examined an outdoor cloud security camera [the Motorola Focus 73] which like many devices of its generation a) has an associated mobile app b) is quick to setup and c) presents new security threats to your network. From the article: This blog describes in detail how we were able to exploit the camera without access to the local network, steal secrets including the home networkâ(TM)s Wi-Fi password, obtain full control of the PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) controls and redirect the video feed and movement alerts to our own server; effectively watching the watchers.

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dimothy continues to fail by edittard · 2016-02-04 06:21 · Score: -1, Troll

Verb, meaning to install or configure = "set up". Two words.
Noun, referring to the output or result of the above = "setup". One word.
Not fucking hard, is it?

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