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Arizona resident Andy Gregg not so long ago Faced with a very curious case. Once, being alone in his house, he suddenly heard an unfamiliar voice. No, these were not glitches and not even a ghost: a male voice, as the owner soon found out, came from the nest dvr that Andy installed in to protect your home – from thieves, bandits, crooks, and even from otherworldly guests (anything happens, then prove that you are not camel).
An unfamiliar voice through this very surveillance camera reported Gregg that he is a representative of the Whites anonymous group of assistants hats, “therefore does not wish to inflict the slightest harm to the owner, rather, on the contrary – advises to change the password in the surveillance camera, which was easily hacked. For this reason, the unknown a benevolent hacker advised an American when installing a new password use the two-factor authentication option: only in In this case, Andy’s DVR is no longer hacked.
The man thanked the stranger for the care, realizing that his camera hacked not to take advantage of its weak point, but with the purpose of pointing out this vulnerability.
Nevertheless, after such, without exaggeration, curious Gregg decided to get a dog during the conversation: it’s more reliable, he thought he. Will the camcorder be dismantled and thrown at landfill, not specified.
However, due to the fact that the American shared lesson from hackers with Internet users, the incident received widely publicized, after which Nest soon came out with appeal to all owners of such video devices to install password based on two-factor authentication option, thereby adding another layer of security.
However, the Internet is surprised to discuss this advice. companies: do they really not have their own specialist at the hacker level “White hats “, in order to provide such safety, and not wait for the thunder to strike?
On the other hand, users of the World Wide Web write this the case proves once again that hackers are not necessarily criminals, in most cases the most experienced and best of them work for the good of people, and not to the detriment of them …
