Hikvision suffered severe criticisms for its abrupt plan to discontinue its Hikvision Online service, with 3 core functions to be removed on Dec...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Hikvision has declared it will discontinue its Hikvision online service, just days after IPVM's Hikvision Cloud Security Vulnerability Uncovered...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago
A backdoor has been uncovered in ~80 Sony IP camera models, attackers can remotely enable telnet on the camera, and then potentially login as root,...
By Brian Karas - over 6 years ago
XiongMai created an international uproar as their devices drove massive botnet attacks of major Internet sites. After pledging to recall cameras...
By Brian Karas - over 6 years ago (Info+)
A security researcher uncovered a critical vulnerability in Hikvision's global cloud servers. This vulnerability allowed an attacker to remotely...
By Brian Karas - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Mirai-infected devices have become so large and so prevalent that multiple hackers are now fighting each other to control these devices. This...
By John Scanlan - over 6 years ago (Info+)
The escalating attention towards Hikvision's China government ownership and Genetec's removal of Hikvision due to cyber security concerns has...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago
Genetec has removed support for Hikvision devices, deeming them 'untrustworthy', citing customer concerns about Chinese government ownership /...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
The video surveillance driven botnet is now attacking an entire country. The Mirai malware that took advantage of poor security in Xiongmai, Dahua...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago
'Victim' or 'accomplice'? Dahua has issued a new press release, referring to their products as 'victims' of the massive botnet attacks hitting the...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
The Xiongmai 'recall' has been the topic of global news, following the unprecedented bot net attacks that use their equipment, among...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago
The unprecedented scale of internet outages on October 21st from botnet attacks risk triggering lawsuits against video surveillance manufacturers,...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago
The global internet is under attack from record breaking botnets. And it is getting worse, Mirai doubled in size in the last month. Shamefully,...
By Brian Karas - over 6 years ago
The victim of the record-breaking botnet, Brian Krebs, is calling Dahua duplicitous in its statements about the Mirai botnet. He says Dahua should...
By Brian Karas - over 6 years ago
The physical security industry has been fairly indifferent to cyber security (e.g., see the Cyber Security For Video Surveillance Study). Here, we...
By Brian Karas - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Dahua has decided not to provide details they have about how hackers are exploiting their products. They explained: A public statement about...
By Brian Karas - over 6 years ago (Info+)
The Wall Street Journal is bringing attention to the massive Dahua attack we reported on Tuesday. In an Thursday article entitled, "Hackers Infect...
By IPVM Team - over 6 years ago
Cyber attacks are accelerating and IP cameras are behind many of them. Worse, last week, a 'massive' attack was carried out using numerous Dahua...
By Conor Healy - over 6 years ago (Info+)
After a massive number of Hikvision cameras were hacked, Hikvision has added new, and questionable legal language, declaring that Hikvision will...
By John Honovich - about 7 years ago
More than a year after massive hacks against Hikvision was disclosed; More than 9 months after Hikvision issued improved security firmware, mega...
By Brian Karas - about 7 years ago (Info+)
Default passwords are a major security risk, enabling hackers around the world to access and control devices like IP cameras (using Shodan, turning...
By IPVM Team - over 7 years ago (Info+)
In most IT areas, 'hardening' guides are commonplace, providing best practices for improving the cybersecurity of network products (e.g., see this...
By Ethan Ace - over 7 years ago (Info+)
If you want to convince your customers about the importance of cybersecurity and the risk of being the next Hikvision, Foscam or Trendnet, show...
By John Honovich - over 7 years ago (Info+)
Finally. Billion dollar Dahua is the 'smaller' of the two mega Chinese surveillance manufacturers (the other being Hikvision). Historically,...
By John Honovich - over 7 years ago (Info+)
Recently, ADI and Tri-Ed both started OEMing Hikvision products. Reference - IPVM test on ADI W Box, IPVM test of Tri-Ed Northern Video. Both ADI...
By John Honovich - over 7 years ago (Info+)
