Spying 101 - Hack A Webcam

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New powers for police to hack your PC
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"Remote searching can be achieved by sending an email containing a virus to a suspect's computer which then transmits information about email contents and web-browsing habits to a distant surveillance team."
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Come on, seriously, if you're opening email attachments from people you don't know then its not just the police who'll be monitoring you. The other option in that article is a physical device, so they would have to actually break into your home, and if they're doing that then they can just plant a few bugs.
 
Bro, i just put the information out there to make others aware. Everyone here can make their own conclusions and assessments and believe what they want. If they are concerned than they can take steps to better protect themselves and it they don't care and don't believe any of this than live a care free life.
 
islamirama said:
Bro, i just put the information out there to make others aware. Everyone here can make their own conclusions and assessments and believe what they want. If they are concerned than they can take steps to better protect themselves and it they don't care and don't believe any of this than live a care free life.
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Its called scaremongering.
 
The only thing that article proves is that people don't use common sense. If you're getting viruses and key loggers on your computer, then in my opinion, you deserve whats coming your way. Kids were doing these things since.. forever. And for the people using passwords on their network similar to "12345" and "password", don't be surprised if you get some unwanted guests.

I like that you are a cautious person but instead of searching for articles about stuff like this, its just better to educate yourself on how to protect yourself from these things.
 
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As stated in the news clip of the original post
You have a webcam connected to the web and might wana ask if the whole world can log on to protect it?

The answer is YES, if you are not protected.

And we wouldn't be doing this story with proof if every camera was protected.

Net work engineer shows us how using google someone can access supposedly private internet webcams.

Ex: a guy using camera to spy on neighbor in japan, he doesn't know somone can take control of his camerea and look at his bedroom. (see news video to see the software used to do this)

If you set up a password than no one can see it. That goes for little webcams too.
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A little more than scaremongering? maybe the ignorant just want to ignore it and prefer others too.
 
islamirama said:
As stated in the news clip of the original post


A little more than scaremongering? maybe the ignorant just want to ignore it and prefer others too.
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I think brother kai and marwen answered this. It is only for ip camera's, not for people who have webcams in their laptops - if you disagree please tell up how to set a password on our laptop webcams...

edit: of course you can install software to stream your webcam but you'd have had to manually install this software. There are also trojans which stream webcams but you can't set a password on those :p
 
Kai and marwen are stating based on what they know. As noted in the news clip, they didn't mention webcams with ip's but rather said your home webcams. If you leave your pc on all day, like most of us, than potentials exist for anyone with know-how to get in your pc and stream your webcam.
 
islamirama said:
Kai and marwen are stating based on what they know. As noted in the news clip, they didn't mention webcams with ip's but rather said your home webcams. If you leave your pc on all day, like most of us, than potentials exist for anyone with know-how to get in your pc and stream your webcam.
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0:07 "security cameras you can view online"
0:25 "internet cameras"
0:34 "webcam hooked to the net"
1:17 "internet cameras"
2:00 "security cameras"
2:22 "allowing the camera to netcast"
2:30 "cameras hooked to the internet"

Like we've already said, these cameras you see in the video are not the typical webcam you use for msn, skype, or whatever else it is people do. Yes, you can set your regular camera up to stream online but that doesn't just magically happen by itself. Someone has to set it up. There are ways to allow yourself to do that if you choose to. You can't use a search engine to find just anyone's webcam though. It doesn't work like that. People who set up their cameras to do such things without taking precautions shouldn't be surprised one bit if other people can view their cameras. I don't know how many more times I have to say it :heated:
 
islamirama said:
Does someone need a reason?
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No, but there's 6,815,900,000 people in the World hence the chances are pretty slight. What bothers me more is advertisements of body scanners which can be loaded to mobiles :raging:
 
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No, but there's 6,815,900,000 people in the World hence the chances are pretty slight. What bothers me more is advertisements of body scanners which can be loaded to mobiles :raging:
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Well, you have to think about it this way. An attacker doesn't have to directly interact with you in order for them to do something wrong. A couple examples would be that someone might have a virus that they put in a file and they just simply use a program to send out mass emails to everyone in hopes that people will actually download it. Or even if you're just browsing the net and you come up on a site with viruses, that could be enough to do damage. People can also scan a range ip addresses for open ports and depending on the result, that could allow them to do all kinds of things. Firewalls, anti-virus protection, and common sense are very good prevention tools! I don't think I can stress that enough.

Don't worry about government agencies trying to look at you through your webcam either.. If they wanted to spy on you, they would probably be outside your house with surveillance equipment and your phones tapped as well.
 

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