Are modern smart cameras vulnerable to yesterday’s vulnerabilities? : A security evaluation of a smart home camera
Abstract: IoT cameras can allow users to monitor their space remotely, but consumers are worried about the security implications. Their worries are neither unfounded as vulnerabilities repeatedly have been found in internet connected cameras. Have modern cameras learned from the mistakes of their predecessors? This thesis has performed a case study of a consumer smart camera popular on the Swedish market. The camera was evaluated through a pentest. The evaluation found that the camera’s cloud centric design allowed it to side step issues present in earlier models. However, it was demonstrated that it is possible to detect potentially sensitive events, e.g. when the camera notice motion, by just inspecting the amount of traffic it sends. Other tests were not able to demonstrate vulnerabilities though. Based on these findings it was concluded that the camera were more secure than it’s predecessors, which supports that the market has improved.
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