Verkada's Camera Debacle Traces to Publicly Exposed Server
Tales of unsecure IoT cameras come along with regularity. But it's going to be tough to top the system-wide failure revealed this week at California-based Verkada, the fast-growing cloud surveillance camera company. Verkada committed a relatively simple security failure, which arguably put many of its customers and members of the public at risk. As first reported by Bloomberg, a group of "somewhere in the middle of white and black hat" hackers gained access to more than 150,000 cameras deployed by large companies, schools, local government agencies and healthcare institutions (see: "We jus...
Source: govinfosecurity.com