The Danger Of Using Webcam The Unknown Vulnerability

People nowadays are so curious to know other people’s life, likewise – a IT security expert in the USA have received an email contained his picture which have been stolen from his webcam clicked images, when one night he chatting with a group of his friends via webcam and suddenly he received an mail which contain his own secret images of chatting with friends.

However how if the sender have sent this images which means obviously his webcam have been hacked and suddenly he unplugged the USB of webcam but who want to take risk he finally re-install his entire system, the hacker have not just want to hack into his webcam but also the hacker written him that he hacked him by malware program “Script Kiddie”, he just wanted to show off his skills that’s why he by himself declare that he is using the malware program to hack his webcam.

The Danger Of Using Webcam The Unknown Vulnerability

It is so called true that reinstalling your computer is darn painful, but what are the future precaution from being safe this types of malware, some of the IT industrial experts have raise their voice against this vulnerability. Hackers also uses “Blackshades” malware to get access to others computer.

Webcam is very important for those people who want to keep in touch with friends and families but what happens when unusual this occurs with your computer and also that would be related with your personal life using through webcam. huh that’s unacceptable for common people.

but here the question arises that why that only IT security guy have been hacked? because of that he is an IT expert? may be who sought to be, spying on you is really easy for the day by day vulnerability found in each and every devices as you can see our earlier news about how hackers hacked iOS devices with sound wave.

About new vulnerability, everyday hackers hacking devices or an individual users with sophisticated hacking malware, a recent case in the USA that charged the school authorities to face jail, school authorities or may be someone else but using school owned-laptops to hack into the students webcam and their families too, like wise another incident happened in china that more than 1290 webcams of 103 countries being hacked by a hacker group so called “GhostNet”.

Make Yourselves Safe From This Types Of Hacking Given Below:

By any means most hackers usually prefer Trojan horse virus to attack others. which cause severe damages your your system as well as you by sharing secret files and folders of your computer.

• Do not click or download suspicious material from Internet: Might be you have gone through any site which seems to have many suspicious links such as Torrents sites, when you click any think you will be redirect to other browser to open another link or it will download another files, may be that contain malware which can enable hackers to control you entire computer, just avoid such sites immediately, recently for this suspicious sites Google Chrome and Firefox have block and warn users to not to access KickAss site we have mention in our previous posts. And kindly avoid suspicious email attachment which is the prime source of hacking into your system via Virus.

• Use Your System Firewall: Using Firewall is much more important to become the secure master, however Firewall is the best in-build function from the Windows or Mac OS to provide a best of best protection from the suspicious sites or downloads and from unwanted traffic, protect your computer NOW bu turning Firewall “ON”, For windows Operating System press from keyboard windows button and start searching Windows Firewall and make your function as turning that ON, and for Mac Operating System go to your System Preferences click on the sharing icon from there and from clicking Firewall click Start.

• Using Best Anti-Virus Software for Your Computer: Using the best Anti-Virus make you full secure from child protection and blocking suspicious sites, which help you to make yourself warn from suspicious sites, and make sure to always update your Anti-Virus to be get secure with latest virus in the world of internet.

• Facing your Webcam: Talking or chatting with friends using webcam is not risky but using webcam freely with open eyes of your webcam can mark you at risk, avoid using webcam in your bedroom if so then avoid displaying your anything except your face, remind family members to not to come in front of the camera as not to come in front of the world to see you!