Internet-enabled cameras have become ubiquitous in recent years. In many city streets, there is hardly a front door or entrance gate that is not continually watched by cold, silicon-enabled eyes, many of which are connected to the internet and beyond.
That makes them attractive targets for cybercriminals who have developed sophisticated bots that routinely trawl the internet looking for devices that can be easily hacked.
That raises an important question: how big a problem has this become and what kind of attacks are cybercriminals using to access internet-enabled cameras?
Now we get an answer of sorts thanks to the work of Armin Ziaie Tabari at the University of South Florida and a couple of colleagues. This group has set up a global network of online decoy cameras to attract malicious web users and to monitor their activity. They call these devices honeypot cameras or HoneyCameras.
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