By Jane Wakefield, Technology reporter Shops and retailers are taking over where street cameras left off, watching shoppers’ every move. According to a 2015 survey of 150 retail executives from…
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Internet spying powers backed by review
Britain’s spies should be allowed to continue harvesting large amounts of data from emails, the government’s reviewer of terror legislation said. David Anderson has published a review of so-called bulk…
CCTV systems slide open a backdoor into your biz network
Cameras can ‘can easily provide a gateway’ to internal servers, study finds. John Leyden Closed circuit TV systems, designed to protect organisations’ physical assets, commonly create holes for hackers to…
Hard-coded password exposes up to 46,000 video surveillance DVRs to hacking
Hackers can log into DVRs from RaySharp and six other vendors using a six-digit hard-coded root password. By Lucian Constantin Up to 46,000 Internet-accessible digital video recorders (DVRs) that are…
Surveillance bill to include internet records storage
The draft Investigatory Powers bill is due to be published. Internet firms will have to store details of every website visited by UK citizens in the past 12 months, under…