Four arrested in South Korea over massive IP camera snooping spree

Cybercrime suspects and offenders across three continents have been rounded up this week, with cases spanning hacked IP cameras in South Korea, evil twin Wi-Fi traps in Australia, and a dark web drug empire in rural England. The National Police Agency of South Korea said on Sunday that four individuals, thought to be working …

[First Light]

Frustrating

Why is it always women's safe spaces?

Why not proctologists' offices?

[Extreme Aged Parent]

'Officers perused his devices' a nice turn of phrase rarely heard

[The Organ Grinder's Monkey]

Colin Troll...

Excellent name.

Wondering what his ideal career would be if nominative determinism were given free rein?

[herman]

Murder, she wrote

Drug dealers are really mass murderers and should be treated as such.

[tiggity]

Re: Murder, she wrote

@herman

Really depends on the drugs people are dealing.

And lots of mass murders hold high political office...

.. and let us not get into alcohol, cigarette related deaths

[tiggity]

Rinse & repeat

For about as long has cameras have been connected to the internet, miscreants have exploited none* / default security settings / poor quality passwords.

By now, people should know to treat cameras with suspicion & assume they may be hacked (be that via poor passwords, a bug that never gets patched* etc.) & give their heads a good wobble if they put an internet connected camera in a sensitive location.

What sort of person thinks an internet connected camera in a gynaecologists office is a remotely good idea?

* back in the day, standard for no creds by default (now, not much better but generally have "default" creds - but if they are same for everyone (or limited variants or predictable patterns) then still fairly useless)

** Quite a likely scenario, even with good password approach you are at the mercy of camera bugs (be that they allow brute force credentials attacks, or have bugs that never or very slowly get fixed, etc.)