Some cities have put in place video surveillance systems for specific festival periods. Here at home, police and public security agencies monitor public parks and streets. and Canada, particularly since September 2001. It is widespread in the United Kingdom and increasingly used by law enforcement and anti-terrorism authorities in the U.S. Recent events have heightened the interest of public authorities in deploying video-surveillance in public places.
Police and law enforcement authorities increasingly view it as a legitimate tool to combat crime and ward off criminal activity-including terrorism. The use of video surveillance to detect, deter and prosecute crime has increased significantly over the last few years-in Canada and abroad. This is especially true when the surveillance is conducted by police or other law enforcement authorities. Video surveillance of public places nonetheless presents a challenge to privacy, to freedom of movement and freedom of association, all rights we take for granted in Canada. Networking these cameras used to be a significant expense, but now thanks to the Internet, wireless hubs, and progress in digital streaming and image compression, transmission adds little expense or technical challenges.Īs a result, and partly in response to a growing perception that video surveillance increases our security, video surveillance of public spaces is increasing rapidly, by public sector authorities, private sector parties, and property owners. In response to that story, Hanwha Techwin sought to reassure its customers that it was doing enough to repel attacks and called for collaboration across the supply chain.Over the past ten years, digital cameras have shrunk in cost and size, and have proliferated across the country.
Last week around 1.5m IoT devices – mostly security cameras – were hijacked during a DDoS attack. And the BSIA CCTV section recently urged operators of IP-connected surveillance systems to do more to safeguard their systems against cyber attack, including changing the manufacturer’s default credentials.Ī Times investigation, meanwhile, reported concerns from MI6 about the threat to national security from IP-connected CCTV systems. No wonder the cyber threat to CCTV systems has been in the news a lot recently.
It’s alarmingly easy and should concentrate minds in the security industry – and that that applies to manufacturers, installers and CCTV operators alike. In the video below, Sophos researcher James Lyne shows you how to hack a security camera. They can ‘break and enter’ onto networks via the camera itself. For decades CCTV has been deployed with great success in the fight against crime.īut if security cameras have long been a reliable means of catching people in the act of breaking and entering, the advent of IP surveillance means that criminals can now turn the tables on those who operate the cameras.
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