Feb 27th, 2015, Public Security Bureau of Jiangshu province in China released a urgent notice, it said Hikvision'monitoring equipment have a serious security risk, some of the equipment has been controlled by IP address from other country , it requires a comprehensive inventory of the country immediately, and conduct safety reinforcement, eliminating security vulnerabilities. In this regard, Hikvision relevant personnel said that this is due to the customer's initial password is not changed due to security vulnerabilities.
This event caused Hikvision' stock plunged 7.51% in one day!
In addition, the test report from China's the most famous security software provider 360 company said, Hikvision's device has a high-risk vulnerabilities and has been controlled worms, just change the password can not completely solve the fundamental problem, Hikvision need to update the firmware.
The above news been translated from the Chinese Internet and related Chinese media, for more information, you can search Hikvision in China's the most polular search engine Baidu: www.baidu.com
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