Late last year, the news was full of stories about smart cameras that had been hacked. The stories ranged from “Hackers accessed a Ring camera in their 8-year-old daughter’s room” to “Ring security camera hacks see homeowners subjected to racial abuse, ransom demands.”
While these stories were surprising and disturbing, for those of us in the security industry it wasn’t actually breaking news that smart cameras were vulnerable. What was more surprising was that it was almost 2020 and that we were still seeing these breaches to smart or connected devices.
Now, shortly after the story initially broke and a few weeks after CES, the conversation has already moved on. As internet-connected devices not only turn homes into ‘smart homes’, but expose consumers to cyber-attacks in their everyday lives, the industry needs to bring its attention back to these issues and identify potential solutions.
2013’s Problems, 2020’s Technology
Research from 2013 – the early days of the Internet of Things (IoT) – found that smart TVs could be breached with relative ease. In the 7 years since, threats have become exponentially more advanced, launched by well-funded cyber-criminal groups and nation-state proxies and leveraging automation and AI. And yet the people hacking into Ring cameras weren’t highly-technical or using AI. They were Script Kiddies using credentials found and traded on the Dark Web to access devices that did not use 2FA or other additional security mechanisms. Imagine what a truly advanced attacker could ..
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