Russian website hacking into private baby-monitoring webcams and rebroadcasting.

[onehandle]

The public is being warned about a website containing thousands of live feeds to baby monitors, stand-alone webcams and CCTV systems.

Data watchdogs across the world have drawn attention to the Russian-based site, which broadcasts footage from systems using either default passwords or no log-in codes at all.

The site lists streams from more than 250 countries and other territories.

It currently provides 500 feeds from the UK alone.

They include what appear to be images from:

an office in Warwickshire
a child's bedroom in Birmingham
a home's driveway in Nottinghamshire
a gym in Manchester, a pub in Salford
a shop interior in London
The site's database shows listings for 4,591 cameras in the US, 2,059 in France and 1,576 in the Netherlands.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30121159

I'll say it again... Cut the hard lines to ALL of Asia and our Internet experience will be millions of times safer.

[antiquie]

1. I'd rather not cut off access to Asia.

Let's just secure our feeds.

"It looks like if you change the default password and set a strong one it will no longer show up on website -- but the owner [on the Russian site] could do anything he or she wants," he says.

But the same flaw that has allowed this website to access personal feeds, could also have let other online users view your feed -- and they may not be broadcasting the fact.

"If you're able to log in remotely, then others are able to log in remotely. Either ensure that access is disabled or ensure you have a secure password," Polonetsky says.

Webcam security: What you must do. Now

[Thinkingabout]

2. Hum, Russia doesn't spy on people, so says Putin, ask Snowden, he ask him in a news conference.

[treestar]

3. What could they get out of this?

Anything other than showing off that they could do it?

[MattSh]

4. How very Republican...

Cut the hard lines to ALL of Asia and our Internet experience will be millions of times safer.

Afraid of half the population of the planet?

[X_Digger]

5. "hacking"? Only in the most broad sense.

People too stupid to change the default password get unintended viewers? Gee, that's not really hacking.