Put a password on your webcam or end up featured on Shodan’s vulnerable cam feed

Don’t you hate it when people want to kill the messenger instead of address the problems highlighted in the message?

This time the messenger is Shodan as the IoT search engine added a new section featuring vulnerable webcams. Ars Technica reported, “The feed includes images of marijuana plantations, back rooms of banks, children, kitchens, living rooms, garages, front gardens, back gardens, ski slopes, swimming pools, colleges and schools, laboratories, and cash register cameras in retail stores.”

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