[ NNSquad ] Some digital cameras easily turned into spying devices

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Some digital cameras easily turned into spying devices

http://j.mp/XaU20U  (Net-Security [+video])

   "Newer cameras increasingly sport built-in Wi-Fi capabilities or allow
    users to add SD cards to achieve them in order to be able to upload
    and share photos and videos as soon as they take them.  But, as proven
    by Daniel Mende and Pascal Turbing, security researchers with
    German-based IT consulting firm ERNW, these capabilities also have
    security flaws that can be easily exploited for turning these cameras
    into spying devices.  Mende and Turbing chose to compromise Canon's
    EOS-1D X DSLR camera an exploit each of the four ways it can
    communicate with a network. Not only have they been able to hijack the
    information sent from the camera, but have also managed to gain
    complete control of it."

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--Lauren--
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