Where's the privacy? CCTV exposure home monitor leaks crisis

March 27, CCTV focused on the existence of a high security risk of home monitors, triggering widespread social concern. Home Monitor in recent years more and more popular, widely used by ordinary citizens to prevent family security hidden dangers, now exposed monitor is a large number of monitoring has undoubtedly caused people's high panic. CCTV news anchors also send a strong question-"the camera at home, how to become the eyes of others wanton peeping?" CCTV exposure Home Monitor vulnerability risk in fact, a large number of monitors used by hackers and control is not alarmist. At the world famous Black Hat conference at the end of 2013, the first issue mentioned the significant risk of a monitor loophole. Experts point out that: at this black Hat convention published the Simple loophole of the monitor is a common hacker can attack on the break, and the breach of a slightly more complex loophole, it is only a matter of time. A hidden vulnerability in the home monitor has been disclosed since the Beijing knowledge of the security experts Zhou said that the reason for this situation is the main reason is that some monitors themselves have loopholes or defects in the firmware, hackers can easily control the entire camera through these flaws, to peep. In the report, in order to recreate the situation Zhou also used to know the creation of independent research and development of the network space search engine "Zhong eye" (Zoomeye) quickly found that the password has been set up a home monitor, and using the Black Hat Conference on the disclosure of the camera leak principle of the instant black into the camera Success in the instant to achieve the purpose of control monitor operation. Know the creation of the security expert Zhou interpretation of the monitor leaks not only this, hackers can also through deception, allowing users to remotely view their home monitor screen, is always a static picture, rather than the real scene environment. It can be imagined that when the family monitor is used by the bad person, it will cause immeasurable threat to the family personal property security. The scary thing is that monitors that have security concerns are not just household monitors, but also the risk of privacy leaks as they apply to monitors in other public places, banks, offices and prisons. Hackers can arbitrarily control the home monitor for the current monitoring of the ubiquitous privacy disclosure of security risks, CCTV pointed out that the relevant departments, manufacturers should be timely intervention to repair the risk of vulnerability control. At the same time know Zhou security experts to remind ordinary users: in the use of related equipment, it is necessary to modify the factory default password, and can not use too simple password, regularly upgrade the relevant product firmware, to prevent vulnerabilities are exploited by hackers.