Security and Alarm Systems Blog

►Security engineers from Gotham Digital Science say they were able to get remote access to surveillance cameras and view “exceptionally interesting and explicit footage” because many network set-ups are connected to the Internet and cameras still use factory default passwords for remote viewing. The vulnerability can be found in three of the top makers of standalone CCTV systems. Seventy percent of systems tested by Gotham Digital Science still had default passwords.

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Two female shoppers chatted as they walked toward their car in the parking lot of a big-box chain store. Suddenly, they heard rushed footsteps and a disheveled young man grabbed one of the women. Without warning, he pulled a knife and plunged it twice into her neck. She fell to the ground, bleeding profusely, and the assailant ran away across the parking lot.

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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an appropriations bill (H.R. 5326) that provides funding for several agencies including the Department of Justice, the Commerce Department, several science agencies, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

The bill allocates 7 million in funding for the EEOC, but blocks implementation and enforcement of several key programs, including those that deal with age discrimination and the use of arrest and conviction records in preemployment screening.

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►TSA managers aren’t reporting nearly half of security breaches to headquarters, according to an inspector general’s report scheduled for release on Monday. “But much of the fault may lie with the Transportation Security Administration headquarters itself, which has a poor system for reporting and monitoring breaches,” reports the Star-Ledger, a New Jersey newspaper that obtained an advance copy of the report.

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Joe Muto’s dispatches from inside Fox News lasted for less than 72 hours before the “Fox Mole” was caught and suspended indefinitely (with pay).

April 10, Muto began writing anonymously for Gawker as the Fox Mole. By the next day, he was discovered by Fox–but not before writing a couple critical columns and leaking behind-the-scenes videos “stolen” from the archives.

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►The same group that hacked RSA may be the same ones behind ongoing attacks on natural gas pipeline companies, according to investigators. Two independent analyses have found that the digital signatures left by hackers in the RSA attacks are identical to some of the ones in the pipeline attacks.

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Internet users were scammed out of more than 5 million in 2011, according to the latest data released by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) on Thursday.

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