Robert Siciliano explains how hackers access your webcam through spearphishing and unsecured Wi-Fi to record private moments. Edward Snowden, Mark Zuckerberg, and James Comey all cover their webcams. The fix: avoid suspicious links and untrusted networks.
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Well, your privacy could be at risk. Everything you do and say could be recorded and used against you, and it could happen all right through your very own computer. Concerns are growing about the webcams on our laptops and our tablets. Hackers can apparently get into your computer, turn on its camera without you even knowing about it by operating the camera without its on light lit up. That means they could see and record your private moments. So Morning Dose spoke with Robert Siciliano, a security expert with Hotspot Shield, And he explains how hackers can simply get into our webcams.
So there's a couple of different ways that bad guys get access to your webcam. One, they'd spearphish you. Essentially, they'd send you off an email targeting you specifically. When you click a link in the body of an email that might look like it's coming from your bank or even a friend for that matter, it infects your device. And that infection allows that criminal to remotely control your webcam. Otherwise, other ways that criminals can access your webcam is that if your Wi-Fi is not properly protected, they can remotely gain access to your hardware through unprotected free Wi-Fi.
Well, what's even worse is it's not just your webcam you need to worry about, because once hackers are inside, they can also control your computer's microphone. Edward Snowden, Mark Zuckerberg, and James Comey all cover their webcams for security reasons.
