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and isn't a threat to uk national security, it has never conducted espionage—related activities for any government, nor will it, and that its products are compliant with uk laws and regulations. dahua says it's not state—backed and its equipment could not interfere with the uk's critical infrastructure. a fox news alert now... it's not a bird, it's not a plane... there is a suspected l chinese spy balloon... chinese spy balloon hovering over the... ..it's a chinese spy balloon. from eyes on the street to the eye in the sky, china's now been accused of using a giant balloon to spy on america. china's decision to fly a surveillance balloon over the continental united states is both unacceptable and irresponsible. why haven't we shot this balloon out of the sky? there's lots of questions, i but the commander—in—chief is awfully quiet.
have also not been updated. these are cameras in people's homes, in their businesses, on streets, inside their offices. there are more than 100,000 cameras online that are still vulnerable, that haven't had their software updated. test number two. can the hackers crack dahua's cameras? in their us facility, they're going to try to infiltrate the software controlling them. if they can, they could take charge of an entire network of surveillance cameras. we're getting unauthorised route access to the server. so now, if i open up the client for dahua dss... there we go, we're in. and we have full access to this system now. now they're inside the system, they can use it to eavesdrop. what a lot of people don't realise about these cameras is that a large majority of them have microphones. now, often they're turned off
by the user, but when we hack into the system like this, we can turn that microphone back on and listen in. so it's as simple as clicking "audio". yeah. now we're wiretapping them. what's the zoom ratio? up to 25 zoom ratio. really? this is a very easy to exploit wiretap. yeah. dahua says when it was made aware of the vulnerability late last year, it: and quickly fixed the problem through firmware updates. hikvision and dahua cameras are used to monitor many police and government buildings. in a single afternoon, panorama found hikvision cameras outside the department for international trade, the department of health,
then you really need to understand what it is the chinese government does in terms of surveillance in its own country, against its own population. panorama can now show how security issues in some hikvision and dahua cameras can be exploited. ipvm is one of the world's leading authorities on surveillance technology. working with the bbc, they designed a series of tests. first, ipvm supplied a hikvision camera to put inside broadcasting house. we have a camera installed in a bbc studio in london, and we are going to hack it remotely using a back door that hikvision built into its own products. panorama couldn't install the camera on a bbc network for security reasons, so it was put on a test network with no firewall and little protection. as a one—off experiment,
hikvision and dahua cameras can also be found up and down the uk. we spent months and months submitting thousands of freedom of information requests, and we found that the majority of public bodies are using chinese state—owned surveillance cameras. these companies have dominated, completely dominated, the surveillance market in the uk. nobody knows how many hikvision and dahua cameras are in the uk, but big brother watch says 227 councils and 15 police forces use hikvision and 35 councils use dahua. you're talking about data on millions and millions of people that could be processed to potentially generate very detailed reports about each of us and what we do. and if that sounds hyperbolic,
you can create mayhem — cheaply and remotely. we've all seen the italian job in our youth where you bring the whole of turin to a halt through the traffic light system. well, that might've been fiction then. it wouldn't be now. that's a very potent weapon that you have. why would we put that in the hands of another state? hikvision says it's an independent company and isn't a threat to uk national security, it has never conducted espionage—related activities for any government, nor will it, and that its products are compliant with uk laws and regulations. dahua says it's not state—backed and its equipment could not interfere with the uk's critical infrastructure.
of almost £2 billion. china's been accused of using these cameras to control and monitor the minority muslim uyghur population. cameras made by hikvision and dahua line the streets, where they're not only watching people but actively analysing them, even with horrendous features like ethnicity alerts, where they can pick people out of a crowd that they believe to be uyghur. the chinese embassy in london says the... hikvision says it... ..and... dahua says it...
to exploit wiretap. yeah. dahua says when it was made aware of the vulnerability late last year, it... ..and quickly fixed the problem through firmware updates. hikvision and dahua cameras are used to monitor many police and government buildings. in a single afternoon, panorama found hikvision cameras outside the department for international trade, the department of health, the health security agency, defra, and an army reserve centre. the us surveillance camera commissioner says there are so many of them, they're like digital asbestos. we have a previous generation that has installed this equipment largely on the basis that it was cheap and got thejob done.
the uk government has shifted its position — weakened it, in my view — and now refuses to say whether china poses a threat. i think the phrase is an "epoch—defining challenge", and we're going to meet it, apparently, with robust pragmatism. certainly, i don't think the chinese care. the directors of two businesses associated with the sites in hendon and glasgow didn't respond to panorama. the owner of the third in croydon says the accusations against him are "baseless". china may be targeting its critics abroad, but should we all be worried about chinese cameras lining our streets? hikvision and dahua are two of the biggest video surveillance companies in the world... ..with combined annual profits
can the hackers crack dahua's cameras? in their us facility, they're going to try to infiltrate the software controlling them. if they can, they could take charge of an entire network of surveillance cameras. we're getting unauthorised route access to the server. so now, if i open up the client for dahua dss... there we go, we're in. and we have full access to this system now. now they're inside the system, they can use it to eavesdrop. what a lot of people don't realise about these cameras is that a large majority of them have microphones. now, often they're turned off by the user, but when we hack into the system like this, we can turn that microphone back on and listen in. so it's as simple as clicking "audio". yeah. now we're wiretapping them. what's the zoom ratio? up to 25 zoom ratio. really? this is a very easy