Your smart camera may have been spying on you

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab discover vulnerabilities that affect a popular smart camera, which could allow a hacker to see what it was seeing. This popular smart camera is supposed to keep a watchful eye, but it failed to see its own security flaws. At the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit, researchers from the cybersecurity company said they discovered security flaws with Hanwha Techwin America's surveillance cameras. Vladimir Dashchenko, head of Kaspersky Lab's vulnerability research team, said there were 13 vulnerabilities with the cameras and how they connected online. These vulnerabilities could essentially let an attacker view footage from every Hanwha camera connected online, completely disable the camera, and also use it as a way to get inside your computer's network, Dashchenko said in a briefing with CNET before the announcement.