A ruling of the Milan court opened a doubt: how protected are the rooms we have at home? Now installing a surveillance system has become easier but before activating it it would be a good practice to follow some precautions.
The case starts from Milan. Here five IT experts were sentenced in first degree to penalties ranging from 3 years and 6 months to the 2 years and 6 months. Abbreviated rite. The crime? According to what was reconstructed by the public prosecutor Giovanni Tarzia would have resold the net the password to access thousands of security cameras. We are talking about those rooms that can easily be installed in CAS, gyms, shops, garages or hotels.
The news was reported by Corriere della Sera, who also writes one of the ads From which you could get to buy one of these passwords: “Welcome to the first channel in Europe dedicated to spies. A maxi archive where you can find unique material”. In the pages of the sentence we also read the tariff: 50 passwords for 10 euros. Of course, every password is a bet. They expire when the owner decides to turn off the room or change the access code.
The network of cameras spied on worldwide
This month is already the second time that yes Talk about webcam safety. The first was at the beginning of the month when the echo of a research published by Bitsight, a consultancy company that deals with IT security, arrived in Italy. In this research they explained that There are about 40,000 cameras all over the world that are at this moment on the net. Italy included. Let’s talk about rooms that should be installed for “Safety or convenience” and that can be seen by anyone. The estimate, explain the researchers, could only be done by defect. We read in the report: “40,000 is probably only the tip of the iceberg”. According to another calculation, always made by Corriere della Sera, they would be 74,000 only in Italy.
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How to protect your webcams
Certain. The costs and above all the skills necessary to install a home video surveillance system They became lower. It is now a fairly simple operation. Just buy them, place them where we want and connect them to the wifi network To check them also from our smartphone. If you have webcams at home and want to increase protection levels. there are some protocols that can be followed. The advice is at least two. The first is that of change the webcam factory settings, modifying the username and password of the manufacturer. The second is that of Disable all options that you do not consider useful above all those that regulate the methods of access to the images.
