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Lock Down Your Webcam With This Mac App

A little green LED lights up on the front of your Mac, and you either put on your best smile for your upcoming videoconference or you freak out because you didn’t think you launched any apps …
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Apple Silently Updates Millions Of Macs To Prevent Dangerous Webcam Hack

After news of the exposure broke, Zoom told me that “we do not currently have an easy way to help a user delete both the Zoom client and also the Zoom local web server app on Mac that launches our …
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Confirmed: Zoom Security Flaw Exposes Webcam Hijack Risk — Change Settings Now

This is because of a security flaw that has been disclosed today by researcher … either in an email message or on an internet web server, the target user could unknowingly join the attacker’s Zoom …
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Former NSA employee: This hack gains access to your Mac’s webcam

Despite the security of Apple’s OS X, Mac computers are not completely exempt from the occasional malware breach. Cyber attacks that involve a computer’s webcam and/or microphone are particularly disturbing since users can be spied on without their knowledge.
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