{"id":10845,"date":"2015-12-16T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=10845"},"modified":"2017-09-24T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T12:11:13","slug":"infected-body-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/infected-body-camera\/10845\/","title":{"rendered":"Who looks through Big Brother’s eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

iPower, a company behind a cloud storage service for government agencies, was surprised to discover<\/a> a virus lurking in one of the body cameras used by policemen.<\/p>\n

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People are getting increasingly cautious about their rights to privacy, and to a certain extent they owe this to the known ever-pervasive government surveillance. In fact, in developed geographies, video surveillance systems are installed practically everywhere and can be used to track any person moving around a city, locating their point of departure, a subway station where they boarded the train, a station where they left the transit system, and where they headed next.<\/p>\n

Recently another of Big Brother\u2019s omnipresent eyes was featured on the policemen\u2019s uniform \u2013 that time, with a good intention. In theory, this extra means of surveillance was designed to decrease the now worrisome rates of police violence, by documenting all of their actions. In practice, the access to videos recorded by the little police camera could be available to both the local authorities and cybercriminals.<\/p>\n

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Police body cams found pre-installed with notorious Conficker worm https:\/\/t.co\/XXDBiVIfQB<\/a> by @dangoodin001<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ars Technica (@arstechnica) November 16, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n