Electronic nanny is watching your children?Hackers can watch you

Parents of young children know exactly what a help in their care is an electronic nanny.However, it turns out that the toddler monitoring device can also allow hackers to observe our home.

Electronic nanny, like any device connected to the Internet, can be a great gate for hackers.This is what happens in the case of Baby Monitor Nooie.Experts from Bitdefender detected serious safety gaps in the said device.Security researchers identified vulnerabilities enabling unauthorized persons to take control over it.

Analysts from Bitdefender detected four gaps during the Baby Monitor NOOIE study that allows the attacker to access the camera or introduce malware to further break the device's security.

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"Recordings recorded by Baby Monitor Nooie are stored by the AWS cloud.Admittedly, every device in this series has its unique authentication data, but the attackers can easily capture this information " - warn Bitdefender analysts.

At Baby Monitor Nooie, cameras use a communication protocol, which is based on transmitting messages between customers via a central server.The Bitdefender team found that the MQTT server managing channels does not require authentication, allowing a potential attacker to subscribe to the channel and obtain identifiers for any device when it is available online.

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The Nooie Cam software was downloaded from Google Play from 50,000.up to 100,000.times, which indicates that the product is popular.Bitdefender revealed gaps in security, after which he informed the manufacturer about it.Unfortunately, he did not take any action to eliminate errors.