Surveillance on the Dark Side: A Technical Flaw Allows Hackers to Take Over Cameras

Digital infrastructure security is even more important in the age of high technology and dependency on it. Panorama, the BBC news program, reported a worrying security vulnerability recently uncovered by a BBC investigation into surveillance cameras. 

A new study released by the International Association of Computer and Communications Engineers (IACCE) has found that a considerable number of Chinese-made surveillance cameras, particularly those made by Hikvision and Dahua, are susceptible to hacking, presenting a significant threat to individuals, businesses, and even governments. 

As a man sits at his laptop and enters his password inside the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London. He sits in a darkened studio inside the vast building. The hacker who monitors his every move around the world is thousands of miles away. 

Taking up his mobile phone, the BBC employee enters the passcode on his mobile phone, which is simple. That information is now in the hands of the hacker. In the ceiling of the building, there is a surveillance camera manufactured by the Chinese company Hikvision that is vulnerable to attacks due to a security flaw. 

Several popular smart cameras are vulnerable to hackers due to a number of security vulnerabilities that exist in them. Depending on how they exploit the device, these hacke

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