http://mashable.com/2016/08/11/webcam-texas-hack/
I bet she left it connected to the internet without changing the password from the default
>>56061915
>She said they believe the breach resulted from her daughter playing Minecraft, which required a server name to be entered.
>"She obviously didn't know a server name. She's eight. She ended up looking up on YouTube "servers to play Minecraft" and she ended up giving a name,"
wut?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUx8_JNNKsM
>Retard is incompetent with security
Ftfy
>>56061915
I love news like these.
>"A person has a much greater chance of being hacked than becoming the victim of a street crime," Charlotte Laws, a revenge porn activist and former Los Angeles County Commissioner
>a revenge porn activist
>technology
Mashable is full of extremist feminist writers, what did you except, a real news?
Foscam IP cams with older firmware and pretty much every Foscam clone are ridiculously easy to hack into.
>wasd default position
Gaymer detected
>>56067017
You don't even need to hack most cameras.
Half of them have a web interface, you just fuckin google it and sort by times, then try one of the 5 default passwords. 95% of the time you are in.
It was a very popular thing on /b/ a couple of years ago.
Then it went to IRC and became more sophisticated - a scanner was written, that scans IP ranges and tries default passwords for them. I still have somewhere on my hard drives.
>a revenge porn activist
why was hitler so bad again
>>56068455
Who said he was?
>>56061915
>women in technology
>>56061915
>Hackers can get to them through malware — if you click a bad link or file and use code to turn on your webcam — possibly even disabling the camera's LED light, so you wouldn't know it's on. This is one reason experts among the likes of Mark Zuckerberg put tape over their webcams.
>experts among the likes of Mark Zuckerberg
This is satire, isn't it?
>>56061915
>She recommends changing the default passwords on your cameras, as they are the same for everyone when you purchase them.
What insightful advice. If only they suggested such things in the manual.
>>56068520
Jewish media
>>56068520
The entire world save for a relative few edgelords on the Internet.
>>56068455
Bad is a social construct