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    Backdoor found in Hikvision cameras

    The best, most appropriate response on that thread was: Only a complete idiot exposes devices to the 'net via port-forwarding.
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    Backdoor found in Hikvision cameras

    Security thru obscurity has never been known to work.
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    Backdoor found in Hikvision cameras

    Translation: "Why did you disclose the vulnerability I was using to hack many publicly accessible cameras, you bastard!?!!?"
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    Hikvision DS-2CD2355FWD-I or DS-2CD2385FWD-I

    1. Aliexpress vendor xinray sells original English version World region cameras (xxWR serial number) so they are firmware updateable. There is no manufacturer's warranty, but that is true of virtually every vendor you purchase a camera from at a discounted price, including Amazon, because...
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    Backdoor found in Hikvision cameras

    I wonder how they'd feel when their company name appears in an security advisory?
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    Problem with DS-2CD2385FWD-I

    8mm: need to move the camera up a little but plates remain in view the whole time (albeit unreadable further away)
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    Problem with DS-2CD2385FWD-I

    Been playing with the 4K camera for license plate imaging. I also picked up 4mm, 8mm, and 12mm for comparison to the 2.8 from xinray on aliexpress. The images from the 4mm: You can definitely make out the license plates, and the camera has a nice field of view, but obviously you're not...
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    Does Hikvision make black brakets for the black cameras they now sell?

    spraypaint?
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    AliExpress - Who are people using?

    WR = World, CH = Chinese You can only upgrade CH cameras with chinese firmware, which gives you chinese menus. Which is fine, if you also buy Mandarin Rosetta Stone (Actually, you can still configure CH cameras with the english "Batch configuration tool", so in all honesty they're a bit of a...
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    AliExpress - Who are people using?

    I have bought from XinRay. Their cameras are english upgradable. My camera had an xxWR serial number (not an xxCH).
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    R710 or Optiplex to run BI and Plex

    I run 15 cameras (14 4MP, 1 3MP) on a PowerEdge R710 with 36GB RAM, dual X5675's, and 36TB of storage. My CPU utilization runs about 40% on average. The key in my case is I run BI in the background and use the web interface for my video wall.
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    Problem with DS-2CD2385FWD-I

    *shrug* Guess I have low standards. Still playing with mine and moving it around from place to place.
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    Problem with DS-2CD2385FWD-I

    I find the 4K camera performance in extremely low light scenarios acceptable for my purposes (No streetlights or other ambient light)
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    How to set up and connect to a camera from neihbors home

    Mounted correctly, it's unlikely someone who is interested in vandalizing the vacant house will 1) even see your camera, and 2) even if they do see the camera, is going to be carrying around a ladder to steal the camera prior to vandalizing the vacant home. Using your logic, you should probably...
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    Are you still using H.264 compression on IP Cameras?

    This forum is worth every penny you pay for it.
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    Hikvision DS-2CD2355FWD-I or DS-2CD2385FWD-I

    if you look here in this Forum you can find several threads with sample images from the 2385. there is one thread where I posted sample images both day and night from the one that I have. I find its performance adequate for my needs. In my limited time in this Forum, I have found that...
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    Which CPU for Blue Iris?

    Intel Core i5 3470S vs 2500 Intel® Core™ i5-2500 Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.70 GHz) Product Specifications Intel® Core™ i5-3470S Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.60 GHz) Product Specifications
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    changing Hikvision HTTP port locks camera?

    Agreed. What is the point of changing the port number? What are you attempting to accomplish?
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    How to set up and connect to a camera from neihbors home

    Why not buy a camera with on on-board SD card and record to it based on motion detection? IF there is any vandalism, you can retrieve the SD card and view the recordings. Will save a lot of headache running network cables, wireless bridges, etc.
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    Is BI GPU enabled?

    The average human walks 3.1 miles per hour. That's 4.55 ft per second. At 10fps, you're going to get typical movement of 1/2 foot/6" per frame. A horse trotting or cantering is going to average 10 or 14 mph. At 10mph that's ~14.5 feet per second, so even at 10fps you're still going to capture...
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    Windows 10 OS rev for BI - Home or Pro

    "I read it on the Internet, so it MUST be true!"
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    Spurious Logons From Within Home Network.

    I've never seen BI "create" an IP address out of thin air. It would have to be an IP address assigned, somehow, to the BI server if BI were generating what you see. I would capture the MAC addresses associated with the "spurious logins" and then see who the manufacturer of the nic is, for starters.
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    Spurious Logons From Within Home Network.

    Someone has hacked your wireless AP password and simply statically-assigned themselves an IP address on your subnet. How is your AP configured, security-wise?
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    Windows 10 OS rev for BI - Home or Pro

    Home is worthless. Get Pro.
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    i5 vs i7; Windows 10 home vs pro

    Could always go with one of them snazzy new i9's :)
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    Hikvision DS-2CD2x32-I (R0) brick-fix tool / full upgrade method / fixup roundup.

    As Trump would say.... this is YUGE! Ipcamtalk users are blessed to have folks like Alastair willing to share their in depth knowledge with us... otherwise we would be locked out in the cold! Sticky, mod?
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    Backdoor found in Hikvision cameras

    Make the camera non-accessible from the internet.
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    Backdoor found in Hikvision cameras

    I had a locked-english chinese camera (until alastair was kind enough to walk me through the process of making it english upgradable) which I downgraded and reverted back to chinese for a while, neither ivms-4200 nor blueiris (my NVR) cared it was Chinese.
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    Backdoor found in Hikvision cameras

    As someone else pointed out on this, or another thread, you can still use the english batch configuration tool to configure a chinese camera.
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    BI running 16 Cameras to VM or Not on Windows Server 2012 R2

    Why would you even consider virtualizing the BI server? What could possibly be the upside?
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