Unpatchable 0-day in surveillance cam is being exploited to install Mirai | Ars Technica

Akamai said that the attackers are exploiting the vulnerability so they can install a variant of Mirai, which arrived in September 2016 when a botnet of infected devices took down cybersecurity news site Krebs on Security.

How Many Security Cameras Does My House Need? – CNET

For maximum security, you can place cams to watch every access point and all key areas in your home, up to nine or ten if you really want. This isn’t for everyone: Such a massive setup is best for very large houses in neighborhoods that are frequent targets of theft, with valuables that owners want to keep an eye on.

Criminals are using surveillance cameras to stake out homes.

Multiple reports from neighborhoods across Southern California have come in of folks finding cheap cameras with small battery packs lovingly packaged in camouflage tape and pointed at their homes.

Scientists strapped a tiny camera to a beetle to test just how small video technology can get – CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/us/beetle-tiny-cameras-scli-scn-intl/index.html