185,000-plus Wi-Fi cameras on the web with insecure admin panels

Just unplug them now before someone writes a botnet, okay?

By Richard Chirgwin

Get ready for the next camera-botnet: a Chinese generic wireless webcam sold under more than 1,200 brands from 354 vendors has a buggy and exploitable embedded web server.

According to this advisory by Pierre Kim at Full Disclosure, the problems are in the camera’s GoAhead administrator’s interface and in a weak cloud connection protocol.

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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/

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