Dendrobatus Azureus @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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A recent research has exposed more than 40 * 10³ IoT cameras happily showing their feed _and_ location to anyone who can browse and use search engines specialized in the indexing of the misconfigured devices.

More than 14 * 10³ are localised in the USA.

Read more here.

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I know that there are more than a million of these cameras world wide misconfigured an open on just port 80 http not even TLS 443, with admin / admin as credentials 🪪

theregister.com/2025/06/10/400

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