Trade Mag Covers Dahua Hacks By Leaving Out Dahua Hacks

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John Honovich
Sep 27, 2017
IPVM

Trade magazine website SIW says "Cybersecurity Takes Center Stage at ASIS 2017".

The 'article' includes Dahua, which makes sense since Dahua products are facing the most significant video surveillance hack attack arguably ever.

The SIW article excerpts Dahua's press release on the hacks that buries the hacks inside but SIW chooses to omit the hacks completely.

You might think, "Hey if you are covering cybersecurity for people in the physical security industry, it would be interesting and useful to report on a significant cybersecurity problem for many physical security integrators." That would be reasonable common sense but such is not the logic of our industry's trade press who care more about keeping advertisers happy than genuinely reporting on important industry news.

That might be 'good' for IPVM, at some level, since it provides us a unique advantage of reporting on real things that happen but it is 'bad' for an industry as a whole that the media censors itself on important news.

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Kyle Folger
Sep 27, 2017
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Haha, leave it to biased blogger sites to report on any real hacks.

If you can’t remain independent from manufacturers, then you can never report in an authentic manner. If Hikvision and Dahua has security like Axis cameras, there wouldn’t be so much reporting on these manufacturers. You can’t use the excuse that Axis has had exploits too because while they have had exploits, they are quickly fixed and are harder to carry out and do real damage. Plus, it makes it really easy to stay up to date with the Axis device manager software. Avigilon makes it easy to stay up to date as well. Dahua makes it difficult in comparison when you need to search for the proper firmware.

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