South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj01q6p7ndlo

I have an old ass webcam that only connects by a USB, and I haven't connected to my computer in an eternity. The only other camera is on my phone, and I make sure it is never pointing at anything I don't want people to see if it was hacked.

This shit is fucking scary.

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cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 297d

This is why you don't use IoT cameras or leave ports forwarded to IP cameras. Leave it off the internet or use a VPN.

gmtom@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 297d (2 replies)

People forgetting what the CC in CCTV stands for and why it's important.

Joeffect@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 296d (1 reply)

Yeah having closed captions on really helps when most of the time these things don't have a really good microphone... the increase in Ai really has helped bring closed captions to CCTV and its one thing it really has improved...

/s

Chais@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 296d

And here I thought it stood for Creative Commons, since it's publically available. /s

velindora@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 297d

That would explain the surge of Asian security cam videos on porn sites. Yikes! It did seem like a lot for it to be some kind of money making only fans thing or whatever.