I am a little freaked to see that my PTZ wifi cameras will re-orient themselves back to facing the room and occupants if I aim them at the wall or ceiling.
Pretty sure there are no pre-programmed routes in the cameras, and if rotate the body, they will still turn around the camera to face the room. It really feels like someone is manipulating them to watch us.
I am using Blue Iris, with a variety of Hikvision, Foscam, Vescam etc cameras.
The router is a Netgear Orbi and I have used "Block Services", set to always on and set it for the IP range that the cameras are in, along with "service type" of any and ports 1-65535. Surely this ensures the cameras are not reachable outside the LAN?
I have also enabled the routers built in VPN service, although I am not convinced that is doing much.
I have tried reading/following posts on security, but they are all kind of general and I am not an expert in this area.
BI runs on a server, and I set the firewall within Windows to block inbound and outbound from those IP addresses too, does that even work if from a Windows PC, not the router?
Use a web based port checker, most ports are returned as "timed out".
How do I know if the cameras are compromised? How do I sort this?
Pretty sure there are no pre-programmed routes in the cameras, and if rotate the body, they will still turn around the camera to face the room. It really feels like someone is manipulating them to watch us.
I am using Blue Iris, with a variety of Hikvision, Foscam, Vescam etc cameras.
The router is a Netgear Orbi and I have used "Block Services", set to always on and set it for the IP range that the cameras are in, along with "service type" of any and ports 1-65535. Surely this ensures the cameras are not reachable outside the LAN?
I have also enabled the routers built in VPN service, although I am not convinced that is doing much.
I have tried reading/following posts on security, but they are all kind of general and I am not an expert in this area.
BI runs on a server, and I set the firewall within Windows to block inbound and outbound from those IP addresses too, does that even work if from a Windows PC, not the router?
Use a web based port checker, most ports are returned as "timed out".
How do I know if the cameras are compromised? How do I sort this?