Welcome to the community! Read our posting tips, and learn how to earn ranks, levels and badges to get started.
Ask any devices or smart home question in the Devices/Security or Network Troubleshooting Categories.
Happy posting!
Ask any devices or smart home question in the Devices/Security or Network Troubleshooting Categories.
Happy posting!
Security Researchers Find Several Bugs in Nest Security Cameras





Yet again we find how easy it is to circumnavigate IoT security: this time it's Google's own Nest Cam IQ camera's.
Researchers found eight vulnerabilities in these cameras that Google said have been fixed in the current available firmware.
Whilst kudos some be given for getting the issues fixed, it's scary how much privacy we are giving up.
Do you know who's watching you through your cameras?
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
5
Comments
Community Manager at Fing
Nearly all these kinds of attack are directly at the camera (as apposed to via the cloud portal that manages it) which means that to be vulnerable the camera has to be exposed on the Internet. Normally a vpn on a home network with no other ports open on the router can stop such issues.
So, whilst these vulnerabilities may be local to the network, it's still a serious risk because it's THAT easy for hackers to get inside your average home network with a proliferation of badly written 'thing' firmware and lazy users.
Way way way too many folk have horribly insecure networks which makes these things relatively easy to exploit.
-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
I generally take the view of keeping everything up to date, firmware, software etc. Nothing is every truly secure, especially in this day and age - but you take the same choice with things like having a Facebook or Google account. The average hacker isn't too interested in looking at what Joe Bloggs is doing, but while the vulnerability is present in the hardware they may target someone higher profile specifically.