This Week in Security: Flock Cameras Are Old, Microsoft Patches Patches, and Researchers attack SSH
Apparently the Flock security model did not include “angry citizens with a hacksaw in the middle of the night” in the physical security category. The first thing Micah notes is that the Flock hardware runs Android 8.1 (for those not keeping track, the current Android release is Android 17 released in June 2026). The version of Android running on the Flock camera was last patched in June of 2018, and the Linux kernel (3.18.71) is over nine years out of date, and the 3.18 series went end-of-life in 2019.
- ▪Apparently the Flock security model did not include “angry citizens with a hacksaw in the middle of the night” in the physical security category.
- ▪The first thing Micah notes is that the Flock hardware runs Android 8.1 (for those not keeping track, the current Android release is Android 17 released in June 2026).
- ▪The version of Android running on the Flock camera was last patched in June of 2018, and the Linux kernel (3.18.71) is over nine years out of date, and the 3.18 series went end-of-life in 2019.
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This Week In Security: Flock Cameras Are Old, Microsoft Patches Patches, And Researchers Attack SSH No comments by: Mike Kershaw September 18, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets has released a dump of the filesystems of a Flock camera, and Micah Lee has published a dive into the contents. Apparently the Flock security model did not include “angry citizens with a hacksaw in the middle of the night” in the physical security category. The first thing Micah notes is that the Flock hardware runs Android 8.1 (for those not keeping track, the current Android release is Android 17 released in June 2026).
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