Unsecured IP camera CHQ?

Pegmatite

Just been browsing www.insecam.org, and looking at the Irish cams. Most of them are churches. But I am pretty sure this one is in the CHQ building in the Dublin dockland. I had a look around and havent been able to find contact details for the buildings owners. Hopefully it will get some traction here. And whoever is responsible for it will secure it.

Here is the link for everyone to have a creep.
https://www.insecam.org/en/view/241455/

Things dont seem to be going to well with the long haird lad having coffee with the brunette woman.

verycool

Yeah... I'm not clicking on any of those.

forward8

Pegmatite wrote: »

Just been browsing www.insecam.org,

Here is the link for everyone to have a creep.
https://www.insecam.org/en/view/241455/
.

Nothing good ever came from a sentence which includes the words 'have a creep'
followed by a link.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Great idea. Post a link to an unsecured site.

Wheety

Brianna White Rationalism wrote: »

Great idea. Post a link to an unsecured site.

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The camera is unsecured, not the site. This sites just search the internet for unsecured cams. It's actually scarily easy to do. They're unsecure because people have left the default username and passwords on them.

If you have an IP camera, be sure to change the password!

forward8

Wheety wrote: »

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The camera is unsecured, not the site. This sites just search the internet for unsecured cams. It's actually scarily easy to do. They're unsecure because people have left the default username and passwords on them.

If you have an IP camera, be sure to change the password!

Could have sworn there was a story about something like this 5 years back on sky news, although it was some Russian based site.

For Forks Sake

Someone throw us on a pint there https://www.insecam.org/en/view/624095/

TheValeyard

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Someone throw us on a pint there https://www.insecam.org/en/view/624095/

BACON BITES!!!!

Pegmatite

Anyone near the CHQ, fancy going down and giving us a wave?

TheValeyard

Pegmatite wrote: »

Anyone near the CHQ, fancy going down and giving us a wave?

Or a middle finger with a sign "Happy AH day f*ckers"

Pegmatite

Anyone recognise the pub?

For Forks Sake

Pegmatite wrote: »

Anyone recognise the pub?

No. Was trying to work out the name etched into the glass on the door just behind the timestamp but gave up.

Pegmatite

Tried that myself. Pretty frustrating.

somesoldiers

This is fun, pity we can’t hear

somesoldiers

For Forks Sake wrote: »

No. Was trying to work out the name etched into the glass on the door just behind the timestamp but gave up.

Think that just says Ladies

forward8

creepy.. some of the Dublin cams are for houses and even list the exact address! maybe someone should send them a letter to tell them to change the password. Burglers could technically use this.

Relikk

For Forks Sake wrote: »

No. Was trying to work out the name etched into the glass on the door just behind the timestamp but gave up.

Looks like it's the "Ladies" jacks.

Pegmatite

Hmm, I cant see any with address on them.
But I did see a camera that looks like its set up in someones home office.

Any idea what town this one is ?
https://www.insecam.org/en/view/393269/

forward8

Pegmatite wrote: »

Hmm, I cant see any with address on them.
But I did see a camera that looks like its set up in someones home office.

Any idea what town this one is ?
https://www.insecam.org/en/view/393269/

I might have sourced the house owners number, texting them now to change password.

Pegmatite

Fair play to you. I tried that with the CHQ be cant find any contact details. Well any that anyone is replying to.

RustyNut

Pegmatite wrote: »

Any idea what town this one is ?
https://www.insecam.org/en/view/393269/

Carrick across?

For Forks Sake

Pegmatite wrote: »

Any idea what town this one is ?
https://www.insecam.org/en/view/393269/

I thought it was Bunclody but the parking layout seems different.

Pegmatite

I'd love to know what they are trying to measure.

https://www.insecam.org/en/view/58662/

For Forks Sake

RustyNut wrote: »

Carrickmacross?

Think you're right. Another unsecured one in a church going by the angle I'd say.

https://goo.gl/maps/zTn9oK9ChTM2

RustyNut

RustyNut wrote: »

Pegmatite wrote: »

Any idea what town this one is ?
https://www.insecam.org/en/view/393269/

Carrick across?

Carrickmacross, I can't edit my post for some reason.

For Forks Sake

Mooooo! https://www.insecam.org/en/view/243633/

OldMrBrennan83

For Forks Sake wrote: »

I thought it was Bunclody but the parking layout seems different.

That's what I thought too when I seen the trees up the middle.

blackwhite

Pegmatite wrote: »

I'd love to know what they are trying to measure.

https://www.insecam.org/en/view/58662/

That’s water levels in a canal/river

Pegmatite

Carrackmacross, well done. Id never of gotten that.

SPDUB

https://www.insecam.org/en/view/447040/

This church camera is the one they use for their online services

https://www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/church-of-our-lady-star-of-the-sea-bundoran/

dotsman

Question, besides the houses (and possibly the pub) - who cares? I mean, the CHQ may intentionally have it open. Even if not, how is it bothering anyone?

I know certain places intentionally broadcast their CCTV.

Pegmatite

People have an expectation of privacy.
They have a right to know if they are being filmed and then being broadcast over the internet.
Do the guys in the both in the CHQ know they are being filmed.
What about the people having coffee.
Suppose I am meeting someone about a job with a competitor and get seen
Or if I am having an affair, and meet them there.

Would you be ok if I filmed you and broadcast it without your permission?

OldMrBrennan83

If you're having an affair then you deserve it at least.

Pegmatite

Not really, I am just using that as an example. You can have numerous reasons why you might not want to be filmed.
You could be a journalist meeting a source
A guard meeting with someone who wouldnt like be seen near a station
A whistleblower
Organising a suprise birthday party for your wife

Lots of reasons.

OneEightSeven

Search YouTube for "IP camera trolling".

Foscam released many cameras in the past that didn't have passwords or used the same default password for every cam. Most IP cameras have microphones and speakers, so you can talk to people through them.

Trasna1

Pegmatite wrote: »

Not really, I am just using that as an example. You can have numerous reasons why you might not want to be filmed.
You could be a journalist meeting a source
A guard meeting with someone who wouldnt like be seen near a station
A whistleblower
Organising a suprise birthday party for your wife

Lots of reasons.

There is no expectation of privacy in a public place. In each of those scenarios, you could just as easily be rumbled by a passer by.

The only risk really is to the owner of the property rather ironically. Someone with an ulterior motive could use these cameras to plot movements, and identify other weak points in security. I could watch a camera for example and find out that security does a lap every half hour.

forward8

Owner of that cam got the txt and is changing pw.
These cams can be a major security risk.

dotsman

Pegmatite wrote: »

People have an expectation of privacy.
They have a right to know if they are being filmed and then being broadcast over the internet.
Do the guys in the both in the CHQ know they are being filmed.
What about the people having coffee.
Suppose I am meeting someone about a job with a competitor and get seen
Or if I am having an affair, and meet them there.

Would you be ok if I filmed you and broadcast it without your permission?

As Trasna has said, there really can be no expectation of privacy in public. Especially today, where there could easily be someone taking a photo/video in public where you are in the background.

It's different if the focus of the camera is on you. But, in the case of CCTV cameras, they are often focused on large areas of which people generally tend to be poor quality, out-of-focus subjects. I go to the CHQ quite often. This won't stop me going, or walking past that camera. It's just that I'm not really bothered!

Capt'n Midnight

Wheety wrote: »

If you have an IP camera, be sure to change the password!

This will have no effect on the passwords burnt into the firmware.

Or the whopping great big holes that allow access without passwords.

"IP cameras typically use Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)... making them highly visible targets for IoT malware,

CollyFlower

A nice view of Dublin here. https://www.siptu.ie/media/webcam/

rgodard80a

(Not exactly AH material, but worth mentioning for anyone running home cameras that they can access over the net)

Just to summarize/expand on the steps to take to secure a webcam

1) Change the default password (and username if you can)
2) Update to the latest version of the firmware
3) Disable UPnP on your home router, only explicitly open public ports to devices on your network when necessary.
4) If you do open an port on your home router to access your camera (or any device) on your local network, then ideally don't use the default port on the internet facing side. Eg. if your camera uses port 8888 on your home network, then use some random other port when port forwarding on your router. So someone on the net would have to know you opened port 12345 instead and forwarded the traffic through your router to port 8888.
5) Ideally don't run your webcam or other "internet of things" devices on your main home network. Create a separate network / guest network for them.

Your home network security is only as strong as it's weakest link.
And a smart bulb, cheap webcam or smart TV might expose your whole home network to hackers.

There's specific websites like "Shodan" which scans the entire web for devices with well known open ports and saves them for anyone to query. So once a hacker finds some vulnerability they can look up a list of known IP addresses that could be running that service/device and attempt to hack each one in turn.

Blazer

christ I've love a pint now and a packet of bacon fries.

forward8

anyone figured out the pub name yet?

whiskeyman

forward8 wrote: »

anyone figured out the pub name yet?

It's some kind of pub based in the future!

Morpork

The CHQ camera is not unsecured, it's public.

It's literally on their website:
https://chq.ie/live-camera/

It's the same with the church cameras too. They're mostly on the website of the church.
Once the camera has a public feed, insecam can scrape it. shodan.io has been doing this for a long time and not just with cameras all IOT tech.

forward8

the pubs IP camera address shows up as dingle, Kerry when put into one of those ip tools online, not sure how accurate they are though or if it's the right IP.

Morpork

forward8 wrote: »

the pubs IP camera address shows up as dingle, Kerry when put into one of those ip tools online, not sure how accurate they are though or if it's the right IP.

It's accurate. I was trying to find the pub using image search of Dingle pubs but no luck.

Outlaw Pete

Ah here, no way that these naked chicks know people are watching them.

Relikk

forward8 wrote: »

the pubs IP camera address shows up as dingle, Kerry when put into one of those ip tools online, not sure how accurate they are though or if it's the right IP.

I wouldn't rely on it too much. One of the cameras showed it's IP as being in Cork, but it was Dun Laoghaire pier.

smokiebeverage

The CHQ camera isn't an insecure camera, its just the feed off their website webcam! https://chq.ie/live-camera/ They probably know about it already, don't you think!

Capt'n Midnight

Locals can see how busy your WiFi is even if it's encrypted. And work out from the size and style of packets what's going on.
They can't see you but they can tell what you are doing.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/10/internet_of_things_encryption_snooping/