IoT search service Shodan.io has launched a new section of its site for searching Webcams that aren’t properly secured.
Anyone with a paid account can browse the service’s collection of Webcam images, taken from a variety of settings, from schools to people’s homes. According to Ars Technica, a security expert was able to find easily “marijuana plantations, back rooms of banks, children, kitchens, living rooms, garages, front gardens, back gardens, ski slopes, swimming pools, colleges and schools, laboratories, and cash register cameras in retail stores.”
IoT security represents a real and looming threat as we enable data gathering through more and more of our formerly dumb appliances, and regulations — as well as counter-tech — need to catch up quickly.
Read more: Ars Technica