If you are a web administrator, preventing your servers from appearing in these searches is straightforward:

If you are a site administrator, you can protect your server by:

: While mostly harmless for the viewer, it highlights a massive security oversight for the owner. Many of these cameras allow visitors to pan, tilt, or zoom (PTZ), and some even have control over lights or peripheral equipment. A Story of Two Perspectives The Viewer

: Many of these devices are accessible because users never changed the default username and password (e.g., Missing Authentication

This is not a "hack" in the traditional sense (no SQL injection or buffer overflow is required). It is simply a exposed by a specialized search query.

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