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Home LAN intrusion. How to prevent
I bought recently a Security WiFI camera model HD22M102M. Amazon link: Amazon.com : Security Camera Outdoor, Wireless WiFi IP Camera Home Security System 360° View, Motion Detection, auto Tracking, Two Way Talk, HD 1080P pan Tile Full Color Night Vision Boavision : Camera & Photo
It is a nice and cheap camera. I installed it and noted it doesn't tilt properly. Emailed the support (support@boavision.com). The support answered promply and asked me for the camera UID which is a sort of camera ID (AAxx-xxxxx-xxxxx). Only with this information they were able to connect to my camera and change the settings. As proof it works they sent me back two pics taken in my house with the camera.
How is this possible. I gave them only the UID. No IP or any other network information.
How can I set my cable modem to prevent this kind of intrusion to my LAN?
> How is this possible. [...]
By default, your camera can establish a connection to an external
computer as easily as you can do it with a web browser. For an
Internet-of-Junk device like your camera, that's typically some
rent-a-computer in "the cloud". For example: https://aws.amazon.com/> [...] I gave them only the UID. [...]
And when your camera "phoned home", it did that, too.
> How can I set my cable modem to prevent this kind of intrusion to my
> LAN?It's the router part, not the modem part, but...
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual (at least). Read. Look for
"Address Reservation" and "Block Services".
Fix the LAN IP address of the camera (Address Reservation). Then use
ADVANCED > Security > Block Services to block all protocols and ports
for that address.Note that doing this can stop some features from working (remote
access to the camera, for example).
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> How is this possible. [...]
By default, your camera can establish a connection to an external
computer as easily as you can do it with a web browser. For an
Internet-of-Junk device like your camera, that's typically some
rent-a-computer in "the cloud". For example: https://aws.amazon.com/> [...] I gave them only the UID. [...]
And when your camera "phoned home", it did that, too.
> How can I set my cable modem to prevent this kind of intrusion to my
> LAN?It's the router part, not the modem part, but...
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual (at least). Read. Look for
"Address Reservation" and "Block Services".
Fix the LAN IP address of the camera (Address Reservation). Then use
ADVANCED > Security > Block Services to block all protocols and ports
for that address.Note that doing this can stop some features from working (remote
access to the camera, for example).