Let’s Mitigate the Cyber Treats in Video Surveillance
2016 will be remembered as a year in which the physical security industry’s got backfired with their apathy towards cybersecurity with a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack caused outages of influential websites like Amazon and Twitter. If you are familiar with the “Mirai Virus”, you may have a clue on what I am talking about. Mirai is a self-propagating botnet virus, which enters a camera by logging in using one of 61 default or common weak passwords that are capable of flooding any site on the web while still acting like a normal camera. It is estimated as 100,000 devices were hijacked by hackers, including network security cameras in this very incident. Got your attention now? Welcome to today’s focus, “Video Surveillance Cybersecurity”. What are the Potential Vulnerabilities of Your Video Surveillance System? A collection of equipment and software that provides security and safety can simply mention as a physical security system. CCTV (Closed-circuit television)...