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Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled

posted by martyb on Tuesday October 25 2016, @12:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the rein-in-the-bots dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Home webcams that were hijacked to help knock popular websites offline last week are being recalled in the US.

Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou Xiongmai issued the recall soon after its cameras were identified as aiding the massive web attacks.

They made access to popular websites, such as Reddit, Twitter, Spotify and many other sites, intermittent.

Security experts said easy-to-guess default passwords, used on Xiongmai webcams, aided the hijacking.

The web attack enrolled thousands of devices that make up the internet of things - smart devices used to oversee homes and which can be controlled remotely.

Will we go through this over and over with toasters, refrigerators, and every other connected appliance?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @09:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @09:53PM (#418738)

    But there is a lot of redundant safety systems overseen by two highly trained humans. Flying is the safest way to travel, the stats bear this out. You don't have to trust the computer programmers, trust the statistics.