Home improvement smart camera was invaded in minutes? Is it really safe to install a smart camera in the home?

Mobile phones have become the center of connected mobile life, and it has also driven the development of derivative products, and smart home cameras are one of them. For many users, this is the key to your privacy being leaked.

On June 18, the AQSIQ official website issued a risk warning on the quality and safety of smart cameras. Among the 40 batches tested, 32 batches of samples have quality safety hazards, which may lead to user surveillance video being leaked, or smart cameras. Harmful by malicious control.

Currently, smart cameras on the market are all like this. They use Wi-Fi networking directly, equipped with mobile applications, can remotely view everything in the home, and voice calls with family members. They also support video sharing, remote operation monitoring, viewing angles, alarms, etc. It is very convenient to use, but its security is greatly reduced.

In this regard, CCTV news client deliberately made a survey, the current smart home camera leakage privacy has become a hot business, because as long as the cracked IP address is input into the playback software, you can achieve voyeurism, not noticed.

From the actual experience of the reporter, it costs 188 yuan in some QQ groups, and can easily buy a large number of IP accounts, and these IP addresses can easily invade almost all families with the cracked login password and corresponding software. Smart camera, then how does the IP address of the smart camera fall into the hands of others? And how can the password for login be leaked together?

Gao Sheng, a senior engineer at the National Internet Emergency Center, said that he would use a weak password to do a wide range of scanning. A weak password is some user or admin. What is even more exaggerated is that in addition to the home smart camera, there are also a large number of public cameras for urban management and traffic monitoring that can be opened with weak passwords. Therefore, such cameras are easily invaded.

If you have a smart camera in your home, the points you need to do are as follows:

1. Do not use the original preset or too simple username and password, and make regular replacements;

2, the camera should not face the privacy area of ​​the bedroom, bathroom, etc., and always check whether the angle of the camera changes;

3, develop a good habit of regularly killing the virus.