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Prison for cybersecurity expert selling private videos from inside 400,000 homes (www.bitdefender.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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A Korean cybersecurity expert has been sentenced to prison for illegally accessing and distributing private videos from vulnerable "wallpad" cameras in 400,000 private households.

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[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

While thats clearly fucked, its also a great example of why those devices should never be connected to WAN if at all possible

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Yup. I want a home monitoring service, but I'm too lazy to go wire up my house with Ethernet, and there's no way I'm buying anything Wi-Fi. I worked with cameras at work for years, and I know how awful their security is.

So I have no surveillance at home. I think I'm probably safer with no surveillance than insecure surveillance...

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Anything with a camera or mic especially. My thermostat, don't really care

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

You could use thermostat data to get a record of when a person is and isn't in their home, which is also pretty sensitive information