Hacking Internet Cameras watch!
metacafe.com — Fox shows how to hack internet cameras.
Allsortgroup- 920 diggs
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- jacobo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3A%2Fview%2Findex.shtml&btnG=Google+Search
- Allsortgroup, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Yep, that exactly what i typed in. Sooo scary that other people can be watching you!
- nusblog, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4direct full screen link
http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/234602/hacking_internet_cameras.swf - ufia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26People think they are a clever hacker by watching those web cams. Until you do a bit of googling and you realize those are all public cams linked on a web site some places spexially for the purpose of people clicking and watching it, just like a blogs. You're not spying anything, the cam was put there for public viewing.
- treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12WTF: http://85.235.16.148/view/index.shtml
Airport: http://80.160.169.182/view/index.shtml
Nice and busy: http://212.121.228.4/view/index.shtml
Just a few I found :) - drathosX3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My Favourites:
Some Guy: http://213.141.95.146/view/index.shtml?videos=one
Why?: http://monet-cam2.as.utexas.edu/view/index.shtml
No Idea: http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/view/index.shtml?videos=one
City Hall: http://cam-cityhall1.delft.nl/view/index.shtml
Too Many: http://207.210.83.126/view/index.shtml?videos=one
not Bad: http://87.245.83.189/view/index.shtml - drathosX3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Some Russians I think:
http://www.admgor.nnov.ru:8023/view/index.shtml - Jams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Its called geocamming and it's nothing new.. hackaday ran an article about it last year. This falls under googlehacks..
- diilbert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I read about this a little while ago. It is rather old news actually ;)
- Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2nusblog: I've been looking at all the video stories you commented on, and in each one you posted a direct link to a fullscreen video. Did it not occur to you that flash player-based videos tend to be at a pretty low resolution, and watching them at a full 1280 washes out any discernable details into a mass of pixelated crap?
And that's why everyone diggs you down each time you post one of those goddamned links. Stop it. - CeeJayDK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@treelovinhippie : That's airport is Bornholms Lufthavn .. ( Bornholms Airport in english )
It's the only airport on the danish island of Bornholm :
Here's the airport on Google Maps :
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=55.068717,14.747268&spn=0.003262,0.007296&t=k&om=1
You can tell what building the webcam is located on by comparing the webcams feed and the aerial photo.
It could be fun to track down some other webcams.
If they don't say outright where they are located you can see if there a website on the same IP or look up the IP to see where in the world its located ( the last method however isn't that precise .. it's usually only good for locating the ISP that owns the IP - not the user ) - Archeologist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@treelovinhippie
"WTF: http://85.235.16.148/view/index.shtml"
I'm gonna have nightmares after that one. - Archeologist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's some that I found.
nice refresh rate/controls: http://www.floatograph.com/webcast/live.html
volcano: http://www.avo.alaska.edu/webcam/webcam.php?cam=Augustine%20-%20island
mall: http://mallcam.uta.edu/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Resolution=640x480&Quality=Motion&Interval=30&Size=STD&PresetOperation=Move&Language=255
cars: http://216.231.170.182:5903/ViewerFrame?Direction=TiltScan&Mode=Refresh&Resolution=640x480&Quality=Standard&Interval=30&Size=STD&PresetOperation=Move&Language=0
Whole bed of cats: http://sakura777.miemasu.net/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Language=1 - spinchange, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ ufia....While a great many of course are, not all the IP based cameras that one can find online are intended for public viewing. Bad security and IP Network Administration can cause this stuff to be unintentionally wide open and even indexed by search bots.
- surfit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Weird, I was only searching yesterday for some remotely controlled cameras on Google. There's other ways to search for them but like people have said the majority are there on purpose for tourism... they are very rarely security cameras. It's fun though and makes me want to buy one of those Axis systems just as a gadget.
That show was horribly sensationalist and amateurish though, I assume that some sort of local news programme?
- jprichard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15A site dedicated to these cams...
http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php- jprichard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Found the camera that was shown in the video...
http://camera.tiny.jp/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Language=1
Click on 8 and it will show the same thing as the intro to the fox video. - tony134340, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1haha, don't you know how many people are fighting over that cam now? Pretty cool.
- jprichard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Found the camera that was shown in the video...
- everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9did he just say 'voy yours'?
- chaosmachine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6known issue, has been since these cameras were first released, many years ago..
moral of the story? set a password..- scottschiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I could swear this was pretty big in 2000-2001 when these AXIS cameras really started getting out there, though being quite expensive ($600?) .. the lack of security may be compared to leaving wireless routers with the web interface open, and default passwords set. I think things have improved at least somewhat since then.
This reminds me of something relatedly-nerdy I did in this area.
Mostly out of boredom (and nerdiness around that time, while I was still in school) I tried setting up a camera (capture card + camcorder) which was mounted on a "lazy susan" with a stepper motor in our living room (a house of mostly electronics engineers, go figure.) I'd wired some lights and a tornado vortex generator (heh) to a solid-state relay controlled via the parallel port on our web server, so viewers could look around our place and also turn things on and off via the web. It was interesting given the spread of tech used (hard/software) to get the job done, pretty fun.
I eventually had to take the thing down when one of my less-technical roommates freaked out, saying that a camera had followed him into the kitchen when he went to make a sandwich. ;)
/nerd rant
- scottschiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I could swear this was pretty big in 2000-2001 when these AXIS cameras really started getting out there, though being quite expensive ($600?) .. the lack of security may be compared to leaving wireless routers with the web interface open, and default passwords set. I think things have improved at least somewhat since then.
- SPLASTiK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Sub7?
- TheCheeks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I actually stumbled on a Vegas Casino cam watching several part of the inside. Prob not the best thing to be able to have access to see..
- junkmail02, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4link please?
-z00k
- junkmail02, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4link please?
- Spo8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone have a link to the program he was using to view and control them? It looked like half of a Sony logo on the screen.
- jprichard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The cams that you can control have a web interface. All you have to do is to access the page that has the cam and you have complete control of the cam. I can't remember exactly which cam has that same interface he was using but one of the cams that you can control off the top of my head would be the 2130R PTZ cam. Do a google search and you should find a few that you can control.
- omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So, 2 questions:
1. What program was he using to control the cams
2. What are the steps to protect a home webcam- t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What program was he using? IE. Or any other web browser.
How do you protect it? Put a password on it? Don't open it to the Internet at all?
- t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What program was he using? IE. Or any other web browser.
- RomeyRome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Default password for these is root/pass.
- visik7, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1this is absolutely the oldest news I ever read I know it since Jan 2005
http://www.hackaday.com/2005/01/14/geocamming-unsecurity-cameras-revisited/
Social Networking bring old news as new this SUCKS - RomeyRome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here's an older unlatched one with a admin backdoor. Looks like a radio station. people there when I was looking.
view: http://217.96.4.239/view/index.shtml
admin: http://217.96.4.239//admin/admin.shtml
Each link you click, copy & paste it and add the double "//" before admin.- RomeyRome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another wide open one. http://12.106.223.52:3100/admin/admin.shtml It's functional, but it's just dark when I looked. this one has zoom / pan & all.
- wastern, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4and someone already went in a defaced it with "digg rules"......classy guys
- cplkai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I like how they cover the story just to end it with "Uh.. use a password and you're UNHAXABLE"
- everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11hey, if you're gonna scare the ***** out of home owners with security cameras, might as well slap on a false sense of security.
hitler has the bomb! quick, get under a wodden school desk!
see? everything is fine! - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2UID: admin
PWD: password
OMG teh hax!
- everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11hey, if you're gonna scare the ***** out of home owners with security cameras, might as well slap on a false sense of security.
- TylerCWynn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Note to Fox: Its not hacking if all you're doing is typing something into Google.
- michaelmcg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Maybe not typing something into Google, but when you enter a unauthorized area, then it is computer trespass.
- omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3After a few minutes of research, I found some google search variables that work:
inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode="
inurl:"MultiCameraFrame?Mode="
inurl:"view/index.shtml"
inurl:"axis-cgi/mjpg" - mymate, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4so old!
- SPLASTiK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Where's the porn?
- timmyallen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1www.eroticbpm.com/view/axis-cgi/mjpg/view.htm
Girl vision apparently...
- timmyallen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1www.eroticbpm.com/view/axis-cgi/mjpg/view.htm
- proxykillah, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Reminds me of a blog I posted about this a while back, playing with the I-Catcher Dev Team :)
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=20324789&blogID=139429085&Mytoken=8036CD8D-44BE-4A62-90D9A4DCFF91FD4D77177516 - omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The motherlode!
http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/01/09/security-webcam-hunting.html - C0D3R, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4OMFG, that "Security Consultant" on the news is the guy who organized a revolt against Microsoft's eliminating NT4 MCSE's when Windows 2000 was released.
http://www.thenetworkadministrator.com/dougchick.htm
http://www.thenetworkadministrator.com/MCSEsling.htm - anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Best line:
"A simple pan, that's his bedroom, a simple tilt, they're his flipflops"
OMG hardcore flipflop cams! - honkaform, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Haha. I skipped ahead to page 8 to avoid diggeffected cameras, and found a world trade center one: Failed to connect?? What?!
- 5hinmyoken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4why would they be scaring people with the prospect of 'hackable' cams after they scared everybody into putting up surveillance cams everywhere for your security? doesnt make sense, now, does it.
- harmonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3it's because they're the "***** from fox"
- wheel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This ***** is addictive!
- RomeyRome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Only because you're expecting to land some porn...
- spliffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5no, because we are "casing" them so we can rob them later.
- dimension128, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its really fun to find a cam that someone else is controlling to.
And then when something happens that both(or however many people are viewing the cam) try to pan to, we keep over correcting and end up looking at the floor or whatever. - wheel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://plaza-lounge-camera.city.shiojiri.nagano.jp/CgiStart?page=Single&Mode=Refresh&Language=4
- CaptainPlant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Look at this webcam! This is the fastest refresh rate I have ever seen. You can see all the people walking round and cars moving in real time.
http://www.webcam.admhmao.ru/view/index.shtml- rkuchiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Perhaps, until you posted it on digg. :P
- 1021, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nope, still working like a charm. Impressive.
- Archeologist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2try this one
http://campuscentercam.its.wesleyan.edu/view/index.shtml
- dimension128, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1haha I found the same camera they were using when they showed that bed.
http://blueroof.no-ip.com:83/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Language=4- harmonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2oh rofl, I wonder who sleeps in that bed?
Hahaha, I'm having a battle for control on this one, i'm trying to get it to go to the right. - nicktripp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Same house, multiple rooms:
http://blueroof.no-ip.com:83/MultiCameraFrame?Mode=Motion&Language=4 - diilbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why would you put a camera in the master bedroom anyway ?
- harmonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2oh rofl, I wonder who sleeps in that bed?
- trakgalvis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here is a huge number of cameras:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Hack-Lockpicker-Network/browse_thread/thread/a56afa9ca07601fa - ktonini, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0whoever has this one: http://217.96.4.239/view/index.shtml must know its been dugg since the title on the cam is digg rulz
- rkuchiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That is the one with the admin exploit that was posted above. I'm pretty sure a digger did that.
- logic6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://80.25.93.163:90/view/view.shtml?videos=&id=854
- rick2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is really old... i have some really good cams i found few years ago ;p
most are jap/china/korea though
there are some really nice ones if you look long enough - harmonic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2LOL IT'S A SPINNING DUTCH WIFE: http://85.235.16.148/view/index.shtml
- harmonic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2omg it stopped spinning!
- drathosX3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ ufia
I somehow doubt this cam is for "public viewing"
http://213.141.95.146/view/index.shtml?videos=one- dimension128, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3But then again maybe it is. I don't understand the language on that page but I can make out the skype and icq number. I sent him a message letting him know people can see the camera and gave him a link to this digg. No reply, and the camera is still going.
So he didn't get the message, or he doesn't care. - Figs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I doubt he cares. If you follow the link posted, you'll see his name is Urban Sundstrom (or at least, I think that's his name), and he posts a crapload of ways to contact him.
So... did anyone else find the boat in the warehouse yet? I can't figure out what it is... :
- dimension128, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3But then again maybe it is. I don't understand the language on that page but I can make out the skype and icq number. I sent him a message letting him know people can see the camera and gave him a link to this digg. No reply, and the camera is still going.
- Solafa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Everyone should use a password, i am still amazed by people who put private stuff on there computers and not even bother with a password.
- drewgots, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i found some sleepy dogs
oh and this one has SOUND so i wanna check it out later when they're not asleep (during the daytime) so i can hear them yap at whoever owns the flip flops (yes, flip flops caught on camera yet again)
http://wanwanhouse.homeip.net/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion- ruskin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I saw this one about an hour ago. The dog was yapping and a korean/japanese/chinese lady was moving around and playing with the dog. Probably not a good move to freak her out by moving the camera about ... sounds like she is printing something out at the moment...
- ufia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's the sound of the camera moving, man this thing is loud! I can hear japanese TV in the background.
- echappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The correct term is "Cam Jacking"
- catt231, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1fancy some cute piglets?
http://82.70.252.206/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Language=4 - levyjl1988, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No wonder my brother is scared ***** of the government watching him! He flips it aroound turned away...
- ruskin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Another one of people moving around in the East Coast of the USA ...
http://208.65.70.98:8080/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion - cinnix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://64.21.226.243/view/index.shtml
Im just waiting for a burglar to fall through the ceiling :)- ufia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2On 2006-11-24 07:41 the cashier was playing Solitaire on his computer next to cash registers. ROFL
- RygelxVI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wonder how how many prank calls the woodland resort bait shop is going to be getting today.
- ufia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2On 2006-11-24 07:41 the cashier was playing Solitaire on his computer next to cash registers. ROFL
- Azur2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Good lord did Fox ever mess up showing that, although like others have said most of these are apparently public cameras.
Still, I've found some local webcams, and that's always interesting. IP search FTW. - Ryanxv1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2May be old, but still great stuff =]. Awesome to see what people are up to.
- n3xg3n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow, they just figured out google mining... typical mass media, something people have been doing for years is now a big story because they can't find any "actual" breaking news.
- spd998, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Found one with apple computers on the right http://160.36.60.7:9004/view/index.shtml
- slipstreamJC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Chickens! http://www.opentopia.com/showcam.php?camid=1016
- sephiroth965, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1and a dog!
- speaker219, on 10/12/2007, -0/+218,000+ Cams:
http://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3A%22Live+View+%2F+-+AXIS%22+%7C+inurl%3Aview%2Fview.shtml%5E- speaker219, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Woops, actually 10,000+
- spidertrace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This isn't hacking webcams. This is stumbling onto unsecured internet cameras. That's like writing an article showing how to hack into wireless networks that arent password protected. It's not hacking when someone doesn't add any security and anyone can just stumble on it.
- jmhacc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7step 1. Load your camera viewers activeX control with a trojan
step 2. Post it on the interent without a password
step 3. ???
step 4. Profit - readerr0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://trafficcams.cet.unomaha.edu/view/index.shtml
Looks like some kinda of Red Light Camera or traffic analyzer? - senne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I found the Hollywood Sign! http://63.199.218.19/
- Hates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm so going to break into that house in Japan...
- Unclekoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://150.134.221.62/view/indexFrame.shtml Airport tower cam i think right in front of their computer!
- Unclekoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nvm its a Lab!
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