Houston parents Marc Gilbert and his wife Lauren were recently terrified to discover an unfamiliar voice in their 2-year-old daughter's room recently. Incredibly, the voice was cursing at the baby — Marc told ABC News this week the voice called her a “effing moron,” and told her to "wake up you little slut.”
However, there was nobody in the room. The European-accented voice was coming from the couple's baby monitor — it had been hacked.
It's a worrying case, but may be part of a wider problem. Kashmir Hill of Forbes was able to deduce that the baby monitor in question used a Foscam wireless camera. Earlier this year, two researchers from security firm Qualys released details of serious security flaws with the Hong Kong-based Foscam brand, which is sometimes sold under other names in different places.
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