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How to protect your home security cameras from hackers
In this video I provide some advice about protecting your home security cameras from hackers.

How to protect your home security cameras from hackers

You may have seen alarming reports in the media of hackers and others gaining access to home security cameras and using them to talk to children or spy on adults, or both.

There have been reports of children asking their parents why the baby monitor camera is talking to them, and rumours of live home camera footage being available online for anyone to see.

There are examples of this here on YouTube.

Search for ‘home security camera hacked’ and you’ll find plenty of examples.

This is obviously very worrying and distressing, and defeats the whole object of having security cameras in the home in the first place.

There is also a risk that, having gained access to your camera, a hacker could potentially reach other devices on your home network, even your computer and everything it has stored.

But before you switch off your cameras and your entire home network let’s get things into perspective.

The good news is that there are some simple steps you can take to protect yourself against such intrusions, without you having to become a technical expert or having to hire someone to complete these tasks.

You should also remember that the risk is low and that the stories in the press tend to sensationalise the few occasions when this has been reported, even if the results are dramatic.

Home security cameras tend to be shipped with a default and therefore simple username and password.

For example, when you first installed your camera the username and password may have been something like admin and admin or admin and password or even just a blank space instead of a password.

You may have thought that since your camera is in your home and therefore connected to your WiFi (which has its own password) that no changes to the default login details were required.

Wrong.

Even if your camera is cabled to your broadband router it’s still at risk if these login details are not changed.

You see, these cameras are designed to be accessible via apps on your phone and websites on the internet.

In order to facilitate this, the software creates a path through your broadband router to an online account and/or an app.

For example, Reolink or D-Link cameras have both a web account in which you can view your cameras as well as apps that provide access through your phone.

This means an open path is created to the internet through the firewall (the security software inside your broadband router) that protects your home network and direct to the device.

Hackers use tools to search for these holes in and, if the default username and password for the camera is still configured, it’s a simple task for them to gain
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