Thousands of Security Cameras in the US Can Easily Be Hacked

Home surveillance cameras are supposed to ease people’s fears when they’re away from home, but they bring their own security and privacy risks because they can be extremely easy to hack.

Many people never change the default passwords on their cameras or even go through the hassle of adding a password. This means their driveways, living rooms, nurseries, and all the other places they’re keeping an eye on from afar might also be carefully monitored by criminals or other unsavory characters.

Satellite Imagery: China Staging Mock Invasion of Taiwan?

 

 

Images from an Inner Mongolia training base show what looks like a replica of central Taipei.

A time series of satellite images confirms that in 2014 and early 2015 China constructed for military training purposes a building that closely resembles Taiwan’s Presidential Office Building in Taipei. The new building, at the PLA’s expansive Zhurihe combat training base in Inner Mongolia, is situated on a newly constructed grid of streets and buildings that has similarities to the center of Taiwan’s capital city.