I’ve never heard of this device, but it probably goes in to the must remove category.
The Ars Technica article is titled Go ahead and unplug this door device before reading. You’ll thank us later. written by Dan Goodin. The subhead is: “The Akuvox E11 door phone/intercom is riddled with security holes.”
The Akuvox E11 is billed as a video door phone, but it’s actually much more than that. The network-connected device opens building doors, provides live
video and microphone feeds, takes a picture and uploads it each time someone walks by, and logs each entry and exit in real time. The Censys device search
engine shows that roughly 5,000 such devices are exposed to the Internet, but there are likely many more that Censys can’t see for various reasons.
This device claims to have open unfettered access using the protocol known as FTP.
After finding in an office setting that was moved in, those involved who did research to see what this thing after moving it to a segregated network.
This is as bad as it gets, maybe Steve Gibson wants to see this?
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