@ctmagazin reveals spooky IP-camera hack

Thousands of home surveillance cameras are open to everyone and their owners do not know!

Germany’s biggest discounter has sold thousands of home surveillance cameras you can control over the internet. It is a nice gadget: When you are away, you can lock in to your camera and see what is going on at home. It has even a microphone and infrared sight.

The bad news: When connected to the net, the camera opens automatically port 80 in your network. This means everyone who knows your private IP can connect to the camera. There you will find a user interface with a login.

Next bad news: In the standard configuration you can login with username “admin” and without (!!!) password. Once you are logged in, you can see what the camera sees, turn the camera to different directions, take pictures and hear what the camera hears. c’t says, the camera even reveals your WLAN-password.

How dangerous is this? Well, let’s guess that most of the users who are buying security cameras at a discounter will probably not change the standard configuration and many probably don’t even know how to change it. But who knows your private IP-address? Probably nobody and in most cases your provider will force a change of IP-address every day. So everything will be fine, right?

Wrong! Hacking tools like IP-scanner Shodan are crawling the net for open IP-addresses. Every hacker (or even every wannebe hacker) who knows the specification of the camera can find thousands (!) of open cameras, easily. You can even localize the IP addresses.

This could turn out to be the biggest leak of private video footage, ever!

Watch the c't uplink video:

By the way: Shodan can be found here.

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