Somebody's Watching You

It turns out that your Internet-enabled baby monitor may not be very secure after all. A recently reported security flaw may allow an intruder to watch your webcam or its recorded videos simply by clicking through a prompt.

Evidently, this bug is active if not all eight user fields are populated by a configured userid and password. The flaw exists even on fairly recent versions of the webcam firmware.

Foscam, the camera vendor, has released a new firmware version and has provided common sense tips for securing the webcams. Since a reported 20% of these cameras use the default admin password, common sense tips are not out of place.