Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras - Schneier on Security

Hackers find huge security flaw in Flock’s surveillance cameras and extract 1.6 million images and 27,000 videos from just one device — and the company’s terrible reputation means many employees are looking to jump ship

Hackers have found millions of images and thousands of videos stored on a Flock camera.

Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras - Schneier on Security

Hackers captured a Flock camera and got a look (alternate link) at the software: While much of the automatic license plate reader’s (ALPR) most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles. The camera can produce dozens of images of a single passing vehicle and, according to seve…

Camera hack highlights physical security risks for IoT

Cybersecurity experts are warning that the hack of an automatic number plate recognition camera highlights the need for manufacturers to focus on physical device security as well as protecting connected systems from remote attacks. The comments follow a WIRED and 404 Media investigation that found hackers had physically removed a Flock camera, copied much of…

Report: Hackers Breach And Expose Flock Camera Software, As Resistance Continues

The hackers allegedly ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the contents with the media.

A Flock camera stored its encryption key in plain text, hackers copied everything | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker - National Cyber Security Consulting

A hacker collective called stegan0gram took down a Flock Safety camera installed above a US road, copied the entirety of its internal storage, and handed the files over to American outlets 404 Media and Wired. Flock, for context, equips American police with automatic license plate readers, with more than 120,000 cameras spread across some 6,000 […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed!