Who will watch with an wearable spy camera his estate, his car or his baby could have exactly the opposite: Hackers have cracked countless personal and business webcams world and make the recordings live on a Russian website. The tapped devices ranging from commercial web cameras, up to baby monitors with video capability and professional security cameras of offices.
The website, which N24.de deliberately not published, lists more than 250 countries. Especially many cracked webcams can be found in the US (around 4591), in France (2058) and the Netherlands (1576). In Germany, according to the website 293 cameras are affected. With 584 entries and the UK can be found at the top of the list. There, the website already caused a great media response. So already the BBC reported, the "Guardian" and the "Daily Mail".
Screenshot of Russian spy Website
Screenshot of Russian spy website (Photo: Online)
The operated in Russia website use the weak safeguards thousands cameras; the default settings for many system are accessible online, said Simon Rice by the UK Data Protection Authority ICO. "This is a threat that concerns all of us, and against which we must protect ourselves."
Featured in danger of who'll watch only from a security camera of his property and look at the images even from a distance. As a last resort, it could help the camera lens cover easily when it is not needed to ensure that no unauthorized person can view the recordings, advised Rice.
What is a secure password?
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The spy's website shows: Absolute security is available online as little as in real life. Hackers are becoming more sophisticated and steal millions of records. On the other hand, one should protect with strong passwords. Where: names and concepts from real life are off limits. Because "Hackers have tools that automatically try all possible combinations of characters, or test all dictionaries", warns the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (BSI).
However, many people have difficulty in choosing the right passwords. Not infrequently, a single password for ten accounts is used. How do you also remember multiple passwords at least eight, are better as recommended twelve characters long, to uppercase and lowercase letters and special characters as well?
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The answer is shopping records with which to build a mnemonic, the BSI. "My password has twelve characters and is 99 percent sure", then to "MPh12Z & i99% s". This scheme can be extended such a password for each service. From "My Ebay has forgotten ..." is "Meph ..." from "My Facebook has forgotten ..." is "MFPh ..." and so on. Changes to set password and now every three months, you drive relatively safe. (Caution: Users should not use this example given a personal wish set offers more security..)
An alternative to this is the password manager. "You store a variety of information such as user access plus password encrypted," says Marc Escape from IT association Bitkom. The user has to memorize a strong master password then only. The encrypted passwords are either on your own PC, a USB stick or on the network in a cloud provider. Then you can from home and at work, to access it.
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