ETHICAL HACKING EXPOSES FLAWS + IRRESPONSIBLE VULNERABILITIES: Insecure Cloud Video Security Cam Surveillance

Why? There's now one more example of Cyber Risk - This time with Verkada for a warning sign to the public over the dangers of exponential expansion of “smart” video surveillance networks.

 

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Thousands Of Security Cameras, Archived Footage Exposed After Surveillance Company Verkada Is Hacked

Privacy

from the unsecured-security-cameras-are-the-best-security-theater dept

Thu, Mar 11th 2021 9:42am — Tim Cushing

Put enough cameras up and pretty soon they become tasty targets for malicious hackers.

A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools.

Some of the more notable targets include Tesla factory cameras and security cameras deployed by Cloudflare. . .

The hackers involved here claim to be operating somewhat altruistically.

The data breach was carried out by an international hacker collective and intended to show the pervasiveness of video surveillance and the ease with which systems could be broken into, said Tillie Kottmann, one of the hackers who claimed credit for breaching San Mateo, California-based Verkada. Kottmann, who uses they/them pronouns, previously claimed credit for hacking chipmaker Intel Corp. and carmaker Nissan Motor Co. Kottmann said their reasons for hacking are “lots of curiosity, fighting for freedom of information and against intellectual property, a huge dose of anti-capitalism, a hint of anarchism -- and it’s also just too much fun not to do it.”

Add to that list "too easy. . .

More >> There’s widespread concern that video cameras will use facial recognition software to track our every public move. Far less remarked upon — but every bit as alarming — is the exponential expansion of “smart” video surveillance networks.

Private businesses and homes are starting to plug their cameras into police networks, and rapid advances in artificial intelligence are investing closed-circuit television, or CCTV, networks with the power for total public surveillance.

 

In the not-so-distant future, police forces, stores, and city administrators hope to film your every move — and interpret it using video analytics.

The rise of all-seeing smart camera networks is an alarming development that threatens civil rights and liberties throughout the world. Law enforcement agencies have a long history of using surveillance against marginalized communities, and studies show surveillance chills freedom of expression — ill effects that could spread as camera networks grow larger and more sophisticated

The Rise of Smart Camera Networks, and Why We Should Ban Them

Police are using cameras at private businesses and homes, along with AI, to expand their video surveillance — raising privacy concerns.

Michael Kwet

January 27 2020, 10:53 a.m.

 

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