Surveillance cameras. BEWARE of the HIDDEN DANGER

Surveillance cameras. Here is what hidden danger exists for these devices, and why you have to be extremely careful after you decide to buy one to use in your own home.

Surveillance cameras

Surveillance cameras. More and more people are buying devices with which to monitor their homes, or any other locations that need such monitoring, most of them choosing cameras connected to the Internet. There are many types of surveillance cameras, such as those in this page, but those that connect to the Internet, and can be accessed remotely, are very popular, precisely because they can be accessed by the user when he is not in that location.

Surveillance cameras. The problem that a lot of people don't know is that these devices have a hidden danger, hackers being able to break them to see what those devices are recording. In even more serious cases, some surveillance cameras can be hacked and used in botnet networks, which are generally used by hackers to attack various websites, or servers, to block their activity, without the user he knows what's going on.

Surveillance cameras. BEWARE of the HIDDEN DANGER

Surveillance cameras. Such a device can be broken either if it has poorly thought-out software or if it is poorly configured by the user, the second case usually being the one that facilitates their access. There are many cases in which images were taken from surveillance cameras, such as those from this page, hacked to harm some people, and there are also many affected people in Romania, some of them even with vast knowledge in the IT field.

Surveillance cameras. In general, the owner of such a device finds it difficult to discover that it has been hacked, and may have various images stolen by hackers, some of which can be used against him or for theft. If you have surveillance cameras and they are poorly configured, they can also be used by thieves to know when to break in, of course without being recorded, so it is very important to manage them properly.

Surveillance cameras. In general, changing the default password is enough to secure a device of this kind to a certain extent, but you also need to properly configure the router to which the camera is connected via Wi-Fi.