Hikvision Canada ordered to cease operations over security risks

urbanriot

taraf Unifi has also had a lot of the same problems

Speaking of which, having worked with the equipment I’ve noticed that there are many aspects of Ubiquiti products that are overwhelmingly Chinese, why doesn’t anyone seem to have a problem with that? I’ve noticed in the past 7 or so years that they’ve done a lot to clean up the content online, the changelogs, the software, but despite the headquarters being in California the product previously felt more like a Chinese product than an American product.

Somewhat-Reticent

urbanriot Learning curve? (Theirs.)

taraf

urbanriot Speaking of which, having worked with the equipment I’ve noticed that there are many aspects of Ubiquiti products that are overwhelmingly Chinese

I don’t have any hands on with Ubiquiti, but it wouldn’t surprise me. The vast majority of consumer-grade hardware in that space is manufactured in either China or Taiwan.

Thane_Bitter

taraf Looked into it, it was patched in mid Feb so whoever figured out the exploit they alerted the company and then the company fixed the leak. A security alert was sent out to tell people to migrate to a safe version the same day of the notification.

Good reason though why devices should be out of reach, if you can easily remove it without being seen (ie from the back side of the camera) it’s going to get stolen and or your network could be breached locally. On that note camera coverage ideally should overlap and have wide and close lenses covering key areas of importance. Perhaps mac filtering and port blocking (same thing just on network ports) might work but most unifi devices and any electronic device in general has the MAC address printed on it so that could be spoofed.

Thane_Bitter

urbanriot This is true, currently they are NYC now but used to be based in California, an audit the company had showed a number of problems and they moved HQ and dumped staff in 2015. Many of their products had been made in China, perhaps all of them at one point but a few years ago they moved moved production of products to Vietnam, perhaps other places. Gives them a bit of a leg up over tariffs perhaps. Haven’t looked at the store lately but prices had increased on the canadian store earlier in the year.

JanJ

Stembolt
My Hikvision experience:

Support refused to help when it was discovered that camera was purchased new from a “non-approved” seller! Now Hikvision did sell: ‘A large quantity’ of systems to him, but then disavowed all reference and support from those serial numbers, which was first thing Support asked!
(Got issue solved at Hikvision UK User forum! It was a software bug later version fixed!)

A year later a vulnerability was found in their firmware. I contacted company again, with posted reference that issue existed! They replied saying to keep watching site for update “in next month or so”. 8-9 months later, after no response, contacted again. That model was then put on “Obsoleted” list 15 min after I was asked to check update site yet again! The camera image is still quite good, and entirely useable!

No Firmware fix has occurred since then.
My approach was to refuse it internet access to prevent bad things from happening.

Hikvision camera Would not accept 0.0.0.0 as gateway, and a non active Gateway IP issued multiple “Where is: 192.168.x.x ??” Messages on & to every LAN device, twice a minute.

That is when I created a “Bogus Gateway” (retired router on that IP with no WAN Connection at all, to prevent Internet access), and firewall rules as a backup! This also ceased “Where Is…..” messages on LAN

It’s working!!

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