The four connection points within red square below are indicative of a UART connection. Below are both sides of the camera board. I did find that the camera had a port open for UPnP, but I wasn’t able to use any of the known UPnP exploits to gain access to the camera or its file system.Īfter all my initial attempts to get into this camera were unsuccessful, I decided to crack the camera open and start poking around. A port scan did not yield anything useful. Some Googling also revealed some documented APIs for the camera, but any of the APIs I hoped to get access to required authentication.

Verizon’s own document for this camera was still available online, but had nothing useful.

Resetting the camera didn’t help with this either. That didn’t work along with anything else I could think of admin/blank, admin/admin, administrator/admin, etc. I came across references to the default credentials for an RC8021 being ‘administrator’ with a blank password. I started out by researching the camera model and any default passwords associated with it. I thought cracking this camera would make for an interesting exercise/challenge and It turned out be exactly that… Because of this the camera was essentially useless as you could not configure any settings or join it to a wireless network. The web console had a username/password combination that did not match up with anything I found online. When I tried setting one up I found that it was a Verizon-branded version of the Sercomm RC8021 camera. One of my other friends took the bulk of them with hopes of making a profit and the friend who initially found them saved me a few because he thought I’d like playing with them (little did he know what this would turn into). A few months ago a tenant next to my friends’ warehouse threw way something like 100 IP cameras that were still sealed in the box.

Sercomm Ip Camera Software