Paper Info
Title
Investigating Security and Privacy of a Cloud-Based Wireless IP Camera: NetCam
Abstract
Over the last few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of IP cameras used in various places including markets, malls, pharmacies, movie theatres and schools. Recent products on the market are cloud-based and upload the captured video to a cloud server. With widespread use, security of these IP cameras emerges as an important issue. However, there is still very little work done on the security of these devices. In this paper, we investigate security of cloud-based wireless IP cameras. Security of these devices spans multiple research areas including secure multimedia, network security and cloud security. We have investigated the traffic generated by a low-end, easy-to-setup, off-the-shelf wireless IP camera for average home user. We explored the security precautions taken by the manufacturers of IP cameras and evaluated the access control mechanisms in place. We used a variety of open source and non-commercial tools in our investigation. We identified many security and privacy issues in using these devices ranging from minor to severe issues.We showed that if a malicious person can sniff the IP camera's network traffic anywhere in between the mobile device-cloud servers-IP camera path, he would be able to reconstruct the JPEG images, which is a serious a privacy issue.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICCCN.2015.7288421
2015 24th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN)
Keywords
Field
DocType
cloud-based wireless IP cameras,secure multimedia,network security,cloud security,off-the-shelf wireless IP camera,security precautions,he access control mechanisms,open source,noncommercial tools,network traffic,mobile device-cloud servers-IP camera path,JPEG images reconstruction
Computer science,Computer security,Upload,Network security,Computer network,Security service,Cloud computing security,Access control,Network Access Control,IP camera,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1095-2055
3
0.46
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ali Tekeoglu141.82
Ali Saman Tosun214418.94