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Lawmakers say stolen police logins are exposing Flock surveillance cameras to hackers (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub [B] to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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Flock said around 3% of its law enforcement customers do not use multi-factor authentication, potentially leaving dozens of law enforcement agency accounts open to compromise and improper access.

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[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

oh no.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

See, we can totally trust that back doors to things like encryption will never fall into the hands of the wrong people.

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[–] KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

There's nothing those hackers can do that would be more harmful than this tech already is...

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[–] mvilain@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

At this point we should require all government and contractor systems to require MFA via hardware tokens. It's not expensive, harder to hack, and easy to train users.

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