Cheap web cams can open permanent, difficult-to-spot backdoors into networks

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January 16, 2016

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Researchers from the Vectra Threat Lab have demonstrated how easy it can be to embed a backdoor into such a web cam, with the goal of proving how IoT devices expand the attack surface of a network.

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