it's no secret that the security of iot or smart devices is pretty abysmal right
now here's a cool site called hacked.camera from security researcher
paul marapis that illustrates just how
weak and unprotected some devices are right out of the box every single one of
those color-coded pinpoints is not just one but actually a group of smart
devices like cameras that on less savory
sites could actually be directly accessed by anyone with the know-how
online so that is where our sponsor for today's video bitdefender total security
comes in their software suite and their hardware bitdefender box are designed to
protect your entire home including devices like cameras that cannot be
loaded with traditional antivirus software and guys make sure you stick
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we'll have the full details at the end of the video so why don't we take a
little tour of my house and have a look at some of the threats that i have lying
around so we'll install the bitdefender box later for now let's walk around and have
a look at some of the potential points of ingress for my home starting of
course with this smart camera now this
is a nest cam and as smart cameras go
they're relatively reputable it's not a simple
task to just connect to someone else's nest cam
but the point that i'm trying to make and that this is supposed to illustrate
is that anything that's accessible from the internet is a potential way for
someone to gain information or in the case of very insecure cameras a live
video feed of the inside of your house and there are plenty of cameras out
there that have massive vulnerabilities
i mean really if you think about it anything whether it's a game console a
connected tv other more different game console or a
pc is a potential gateway into your home
network so just right here i've got like five points of entry
out in the garage we immediately find some potentially more sketchy things so
in my pile of projects that i still have
to do i've got my paintball mask lens that i'm trying to
silicone back together so that stuff doesn't get up inside it along with
an ltt shirt ltdstore.com ah this is awesome my mask
that i put one of the waistbands of our ltt underwear on no so to make it work
again and also a ring doorbell that i haven't installed
yet but i will and this
this is exactly the kind of generic
chinese smart home stuff that can potentially be a problem and in
this case access to this device could mean that an intruder not only has a
view into my home they could potentially walk
right through the garage door the best part is i made a video about
installing it and then didn't change anything about it so it hasn't happened
yet but uh where's wood it's woodish
so funny story here the only reason i have a nest thermostat is that my wife
won it through like our credit card company or something like that like i'm
the last person in the world who needs to win a smart thermostat or whatever
but i figured what the hey i've got it might as well install it potential point
of ingress on that subject my sonos smart speakers yet another smart
connected device with the potential to be
a security flaw next up we've got the nest smoke and
carbon monoxide detector
then of course there's the connected hub of my home which is
the office where my wife and i have our computers and
the server closet where you'll find
both of our desktops that are connected via thunderbolt to the desks over there
my home server which has got my plex server
any internet shares any of that kind of stuff as well as just my nas archive uh
my router and i think that's pretty much it
actually for connected stuff in here i don't know if my printer has any like
internet printing features or anything like that but if it did the point is
anything accessible from the internet is a potential security threat now let's
have a look at the bitdefender box which runs the latest bitdefender total
security software in a nutshell the box is bitdefender's hardware solution for
devices that cannot run their total security software like most of the
devices we've just gone over so the idea here is that they've got device
detection and management so you can monitor your connected devices and see
what is sending or receiving data vulnerability assessments you can
identify weaknesses in your home network as well as anomaly detection mechanisms
to block compromised devices and this is
something that is pretty interesting to me actually when they pitch this to us
the parental features for me are one of the things that stands out because they
allow you to just shut off internet access to any device
that is assigned to your child within the home so we're gonna need the bitdefender central app and then there's
a whole bunch of stuff to do
so the first thing i'm supposed to do is just plug this puppy into power so there
you go that's done now unplug your isp modem from the power
outlet what if i don't want to do it that way
i have to connect to the bitdefender box wi-fi do you know what the default
password is oh
quick oh i shouldn't probably read that out
i mean i can change it but power up your isp modem plug your isp
modem connect bitdefender box to the internet
you are ready to secure your network all right cool
i have a personal wi-fi router
there we go this can just go straight into here and theoretically that should work now
shadow you're not helping right now but you're just checking out the security
making sure we're gonna keep all the internet mice out
well you're a rotten cat okay so we're up and running now it's gonna scan for devices on the network it
says there are no devices connected to the network now that doesn't seem right
new device what is this that must be me
so it actually prompts me then to install bitdefender software on the
device oh here we go now i've got this whole dashboard that i didn't see a second ago
network settings can be changed only while connected to the main wi-fi yeah
yeah you might as well oh your wi-fi network is disabled well
there's there's the issue okay
there it is okay we're connecting to bitdefender box now we can go in and
change settings yay okay
so let's go ahead and let's jump on
the ruckus wifi let's make sure that's
working that's working freaking awesome
then because we need to connect directly to the bitdefender box's wi-fi for the
initial update what i would love to do is jump on its wi-fi turn off its wi-fi
so that it actually has to be manually re-enabled by me and then there's
basically no way to get into it all right my ruckus extender just got
picked up good stuff settings saved successfully
fantastic so we've got the kit app installed here
and then we've got check this out uh 18 protected devices
that are on our network here so i've got my ant's iphone i've got a
handful of drop cams my harmony hub
expressive home automation linus desktop
linus ws my nest thermostat everything
shows up exactly as we would expect it to so we'll download bitdefender total
security one of the things that they boast about in their literature
is their very low system resources usage so what i'm going to do is i'm going to
let the computer settle down and be doing nothing and we'll have a quick
look at what our cpu utilization as well as our memory utilization looks like
okay so we're sitting at just shy of 19 gigs of memory usage and about three to
five percent cpu usage right now so let's go ahead and install bitdefender
oh interesting curiously actually uh family link only forces safe search on
there doesn't seem to be any way to actually filter internet content so
let's say i'm out somewhere or whatever the case
may be and i'm like look i don't want the kids
playing nintendo or whatever i mean this assumes they're playing an
online game maybe that's not a great example
i don't think they play any online games for the switch
but this way i could know for sure really cool so you can just instantly
knock out the internet for any device on your network all right so now that it's
installed we've got our trial active here be aware of your device's security
status at a glance ransomware remediation so this is basically just a
data backup snapshotting type tool so that if someone does send you ransomware
you just have a copy of the data already that is not encrypted oh that's right it
includes a vpn which is pretty cool so let's go ahead and have a look at how
much overhead we're looking at so there's definitely a memory usage cost
it looks like about 500 megabytes obviously on my system that's fine but
your mileage may vary and then in terms of cpu we're sitting at right around the
same range so that's actually pretty nice to see when we start a scan and see
how much it eats so we're getting a little bit of disk
thrashing about five percent cpu usage you can also see the frequency picked up
a little bit but memory usage actually not too much heavier uses around another
200 megs while scanning your system files it's not bad one other cool
feature is the game profile so when you turn it on bitdefender will not only
hide notifications and pop-ups but it will also prioritize your game's
connection now you can go game by game if you just have steam running all the
time but some feedback for a bitdefender
is that it would be nice if there was a like an automatic game exe finder
functionality or something like that akin to the way that nvidia handles it
in geforce experience because it is a bit of a bear to go around and find all
your exes this is cool you can actually even postpone windows automatic updates
through the bitdefender dashboard which of course you can do manually but it's
just all in one place if you know this is for
cousin jeff who's not particularly tech savvy and you just don't want to hear
about it anymore couple of other cool features of the app include their web
protect which is like a constant scanner while you're browsing the web as well as
this is cool app lock so you can protect private apps against unwanted access
with applock so if you're one of those parents that
shares your phone with your kids from time to time you can actually lock out
things like i don't know games or you know any apps you have on
your phone but don't want them to be looking at with that one last thing that
my writer for this video thought was pretty cool was the parental control you
can just go into screen time and pause the device
really shadow knocking stuff off the shelf there
anyway uh so you can just pause the device
and nothing happens apparently do we have an internet connection
oh so it doesn't actually just like lock the phone
i just tried to launch an app and it goes
you are not allowed to use this device ask your parent to change the restriction
okay so basically
that's the bulk of the video except for something cool we've actually got a
giveaway so bitdefender is giving away six months of bitdefender total security
2020. it's for new users only and it's for the us and canada so that's six
months of the whole shebang internet security vpn wallet the whole nine yards
instead of their typical 30-day free trial with all that said guys let's real
talk here for a moment if you're a power user you might think that you don't need
protection however there are plenty of cases where bitdefender's total security
software suite could be the perfect addition to your network as well as your
parents friends or non-tech savvy aunt
or whatever i pick on my poor aunt a lot so that you don't have to babysit them
bitdefender has a pretty complete suite here with a ton of cool tools to
maintain control over your home network or even a small office network so even
if you never typically find yourself in the deep dark corner of the internet the
massive amount of tools and features here mean that there should be something
for pretty much everyone so go check them out at the link in the video
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