Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In a detailed post on Github , security researcher Watchful_IP describes how he found that the majority of the recent camera product ranges of Hikvision cameras are susceptible to a critical, unauthenticated, remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, even with the latest firmware. Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co.,

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office ArsTechnica RTO continues to pick up steam. In pursuit of "more productivity," some employers are leaning heavily into surveillance tech.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. Privacy Services Mullvad has partnered with Obscura VPN Mullvad Mullvad announces its partnership with ObscuraVPN; Mullvad WireGuard VPN servers can be used as the exit hop for the two-party VPN service offered by ObscuraVPN.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

The attackers were able to bypass this hardware-based security protection using another hardware feature of Apple-designed SoCs (System on a Chip): they did this by writing the data, destination address and data hash to unknown hardware registers of the chip that are not used by the firmware.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They can be made to serve as routers (proxies or VPN servers) to anonymize illicit traffic. Paul has discovered critical vulnerabilities in the firmware and protocols of certain webcam models, and one of the vendors he contacted never even got back to him to discuss remediation. Various ways exist to monetize Illicit access to webcams.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 19, 2024

Eavesdropping has been has been performed by public and private organizations alike to surveil DNS traffic (and potentially hijack it.) Again, generally, many users use the ISP’s DNS resolvers as it is the "default" and most do not know these can be changed in the browser or on the device/network (hardware/firmware permitting).

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