cameras, cars, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized
This site will let you take a selfie with a New York City traffic surveillance camera. Powered by WPeMatico
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amazon, cameras, courts, marketing, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized
This seems like a bad idea. And there are ongoing lawsuits against Amazon for selling them. Powered by WPeMatico
cameras, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized
Cameras are getting smaller and smaller, changing the scale and scope of surveillance. Powered by WPeMatico
cameras, lies, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities
Eufy cameras claim to be local only, but upload data to the cloud. The company is basically lying to reporters, despite being shown evidence to the contrary. The company’s behavior is so egregious that ReviewGeek is no longer recommending them. This will be interesting to watch. If Eufy can ignore security researchers and the press … Read More “Security Vulnerabilities in Eufy Cameras” »
cameras, computer security, machine learning, passwords, Security technology, Uncategorized
Researchers have used thermal cameras and ML guessing techniques to recover passwords from measuring the residual heat left by fingers on keyboards. From the abstract: We detail the implementation of ThermoSecure and make a dataset of 1,500 thermal images of keyboards with heat traces resulting from input publicly available. Our first study shows that ThermoSecure … Read More “Recovering Passwords by Measuring Residual Heat” »
amazon, cameras, police, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized
Amazon has revealed that it gives police videos from its Ring doorbells without a warrant and without user consent. Ring recently revealed how often the answer to that question has been yes. The Amazon company responded to an inquiry from US Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), confirming that there have been 11 cases in 2022 where … Read More “Ring Gives Videos to Police without a Warrant or User Consent” »
cameras, police, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized
Surely no one could have predicted this: The new proposal—championed by Mayor London Breed after November’s wild weekend of orchestrated burglaries and theft in the San Francisco Bay Area—would authorize the police department to use non-city-owned security cameras and camera networks to live monitor “significant events with public safety concerns” and ongoing felony or misdemeanor … Read More “San Francisco Police Want Real-Time Access to Private Surveillance Cameras” »
cameras, disclosure, Security technology, Uncategorized, vulnerabilities
Wyze ignored a vulnerability in its home security cameras for three years. Bitdefender, who discovered the vulnerability, let the company get away with it. In case you’re wondering, no, that is not normal in the security community. While experts tell me that the concept of a “responsible disclosure timeline” is a little outdated and heavily … Read More “Wyze Camera Vulnerability” »
academic papers, cameras, Security technology, squid, Uncategorized
Interesting research paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Powered by WPeMatico
cameras, cloudcomputing, internetofthings, Security technology, securitymonitoring, trafficanalysis
Interesting research on home security cameras with cloud storage. Basically, attackers can learn very basic information about what’s going on in front of the camera, and infer when there is someone home. News article. Slashdot thread. Powered by WPeMatico