![]() ![]() Owners of any smart-home devices should make sure they have changed the default account passwords, if such security options are available. Four years ago, a pseudonymous hacker named " someLuser" showed that it was very easy to snoop on TrendNet cameras using a regular Web browser, which led to TrendNet being fined by the Federal Trade Commission. ![]() This isn't the first time anyone on the Web has been able to peep on security cameras. However, if we had known the default username and password for that brand of camera, we might have been able to get in, assuming that the camera's user had not changed them. We tried refreshing the feed from that specific camera and were confronted with a login window, which is a good sign. There was no child in the snapshot, but Shodan provided us with the IP address (obscured in our photo) of the camera, as well as its geographical location, Internet service provider and what looked like an account name. We found only one result that was clearly from a child's bedroom, identified as such because of a rather large stuffed Winnie the Pooh doll. The children's bedroom we found in a Shodan search. ![]()
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