Check the manufacturer’s website regularly and apply the latest security patches to fix known vulnerabilities.

The most dangerous results are those that load the video without asking for a username/password. Look for pages that display a video window immediately. If you see a login box, the camera is safe (for now) from this specific attack vector.

However, specialized search engines have risen to fill the void.

This specific string belongs to the default URL structure of older networked camera firmware. The "motion" parameter typically dictates a live-view stream that refreshes automatically based on movement or continuous frame delivery.

If you own an IP camera, you might be horrified to realize your feed is on Google. Here is the checklist to prevent that:

This tells Google to only return results where the subsequent text appears inside the (Uniform Resource Locator) of the webpage. It ignores the page title, body text, or meta descriptions.

When you type inurl:viewerframe mode motion full into Google, you are asking the search engine: "Find every webpage on earth that has 'viewerframe' in its URL and uses the specific parameters 'mode', 'motion', and 'full'."