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more-inThe presence of CCTV cameras can make you feel safe, but how safe are the equipment itself? “There are search engines which can monitor the active CCTV cameras and those that are vulnerable to dropping viruses such as the Mirai and Botnet. Even as the State government has announced its plans to install 5,000 CCTV cameras in the city, cyber security experts claim that data from the existing Internet-connected CCTV cameras in the city are prone to malware attacks and resource theft has been happening for the past many years. According to N.
Vijay Shankar, a cyber security expert, this is mainly because of the weak passwords retained by the users. However, city police commissioner Praveen Sood, said the cameras installed by them are safe..