Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Video over IP. Convenient, but not secure.

Video about video being hacked, hijacked and insert-attacked...
A security assessment of an IP Video Camera; think Ocean’s Eleven.

Man-in-the-middle attacks tamper with video surveillance feeds, eavesdrop on IP video phone conversations

In one attack, researchers from Viper Lab showed how a criminal could tamper with an IP video surveillance system to cover up a crime by replacing the video with another benign clip. In another demo, they eavesdropped on a private IP video call. (more)