Nahuel Riva, a research engineer from Core Security, discovered vulnerabilities in AirLive’s surveillance cameras designed for professional surveillance and security applications. He was able to invoke some CGIs without authentication, while backdoor accounts allowed him to execute arbitrary OS commands on the device. An attacker who has compromised the camera could see the video stream […]
Last week Ubisoft released their action/thriller, open world game, Watch Dogs . The game is set in a fictionalized Chicago where surveillance cameras are literally everywhere.
The advanced technology in Watch Dogs is not just indistinguishable from magic – it IS magic. The game would have you believe youre the worlds most powerful hacker, bending surveillance cameras, traffic control and all manner of personal electronics to your one-touch whims. But in this paranoid vision of the future, in which every mundane […]
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