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it's time for a scary wake-up call about webcam passwords I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update you should never be using the default password that comes with a device and that includes your video security system one creepy website is proof why passwords matter Innis camco is streaming footage of more than 73,000 webcams from around the world without the knowledge of the owners the site was able to access these security surveillance feeds because the owners used default admin passwords or something very basic like one two three four five if you use a default password on your webcam then your living room or your child's bedroom may be on this website there are more than 11,000 camera feeds coming from the US and if that wasn't awful enough the video feeds also show location some security camera companies such as Foscam Linksys and Panasonic offer these pre-programmed simple logins during setup foscam has responded by requiring users to change their passwords right away so no one can use a default anymore let's move on to another tech headache anyone who has switched from using an iPhone to Android usually has to deal with a big problem missing text messages Apple's iMessage is often the culprit but Apple has come out with a solution to help cut a phone number free from eye messages here's what tends to go wrong when you have an iPhone your phone number is signed up for iMessage that sends your text to other iPhone owners over data networks and Wi-Fi but if you switch your phone number to Android Windows or Blackberry well you have to turn iMessage off or Apple thinks your phone number is still tied to an iPhone and message is sent to you from other iPhone users get stuck in some sort of Apple limbo never making it to your new phone sometimes turning iMessage off doesn't work and Apple has been sued over this bug but to fix it Apple now has a website where you can deregister your phone number from iMessage even if you don't have that iPhone with you anymore speaking of bugs sony has released a fix to a major bug in the latest PlayStation 4 system update it prevented consoles from waking up after going into standby mode downloading the latest update should fix it but users are discovering a new problem that isn't a glitch game publishers are able to block the share play feature on the ps4 which is supposed to let friends share games over the internet with share play to ps4 owners can play a single copy of one game but call a duty advanced warfare blocks AllShare Play functionality Activision which makes Call of Duty says it's still evaluating if it'll support the feature that's your tech news update there's always more at sea Netcom from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey