One afternoon this month, a hacker took a tour of a dozen conference rooms around the globe via equipment that most every company has in those rooms; videoconferencing equipment.
With the move of a mouse, he steered a camera around each room, occasionally zooming in with such precision that he could discern grooves in the wood and paint flecks on the wall. In one room, he zoomed out through a window, across a parking lot and into shrubbery some 50 yards away where a small animal could be seen burrowing underneath a bush. With such equipment, the hacker could have easily eavesdropped on privileged attorney-client conversations or read trade secrets on a report lying on the conference room table.
Worth reading the whole thing, whether to give your spine some chills, or if you're like me, for entertainment.
In this case, the hacker was HD Moore, a chief security officer at Rapid7, a Boston based company that looks for security holes in computer systems that are used in devices like toaster ovens …
Remember when we all laughed at the $8000 Internet-connected refrigerator? Just sayin.
(pic. sources: The Flying Toasters, natch, and SMC)
1 comment:
Yeah, our ice cream may melt if the temperature is changed :)
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