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06-19-2017, 03:14 PM
For $28, you can hack into a stranger's internet-enabled webcam
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If you have an web-connected camera, you should change your password ASAP.
For just 188 yuan ($28), you can buy software that would allow you to hack into connected cameras, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV warns (http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2017/06-19/8254561.shtml).*
SEE ALSO: Apple's new acquisition wants to watch you while you sleep (but **t in a creepy way) (http://mashable.com/2017/05/10/apple-acquires-beddit/)
Such software can easily scan for and access vulnerable devices, which are commonly used as baby monitors and surveillance cameras in the home.
******s in China have also set up large groups on social networks such as QQ, to offer usernames and passwords to compromised devices.
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(Left) A list of users offering a means to hack into webcams; (Middle) A user proffering means to hack into a webcam; (Right) Lewd pictures taken off webcams that are being used to advertise compromised webcams
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If you have an web-connected camera, you should change your password ASAP.
For just 188 yuan ($28), you can buy software that would allow you to hack into connected cameras, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV warns (http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2017/06-19/8254561.shtml).*
SEE ALSO: Apple's new acquisition wants to watch you while you sleep (but **t in a creepy way) (http://mashable.com/2017/05/10/apple-acquires-beddit/)
Such software can easily scan for and access vulnerable devices, which are commonly used as baby monitors and surveillance cameras in the home.
******s in China have also set up large groups on social networks such as QQ, to offer usernames and passwords to compromised devices.
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(Left) A list of users offering a means to hack into webcams; (Middle) A user proffering means to hack into a webcam; (Right) Lewd pictures taken off webcams that are being used to advertise compromised webcams
Image: Ng Yi Shu/Mashable Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/19/china-webcam-hacking/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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