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Why It Was So Easy to Hack the Cameras that Took Down the Web


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Xiongmai's webcams may have been at the heart of the hack Friday that led to outages across the web.

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If you were anywhere near the internet in the US on Friday, you probably noticed a bunch of your favorite websites were down for much of the day. Now experts are saying it's all because thousands of devices—like DVRs and web-connected cameras—were hacked.

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