According to Leitschuh, a hacker could create a meeting and embed a link to it in a website. If a Mac owner then visited that site, the Zoom app would automatically launch and begin recording from the …
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Enlarge / Logitech’s popular C920 camera. (credit: Logitech)
The Windows 10 Anniversary Update, aka version 1607, has been found to leave many webcams inoperable. The update prevents the use of webcams in applications such as Skype and Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), along with all manner of custom CCTV programs. Extremely popular hardware, such as Logitech’s C920 and C930e cameras, in conjunction even with Microsoft’s own Skype, will fail to properly broadcast video.
People first noticed the issue earlier this month. But it’s only within the last couple of days that the exact cause became clear via a post by Brad Sams on thurott.com.
Microsoft has said that a fix is in development, but has not yet said when that fix will be distributed.
If a device has a default password, the crooks know what it is! So change it if you don’t want them watching what you’re filming…
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Macbook webcams CAN spy on you – and you simply CAN'T TELL
Register This may be a feature of commercial spyware packages, such as FinSpy from FinFisher, which marketing documents covertly leaked through WikiLeaks claim can be “covertly deployed on target systems” to allow “live surveillance through webcam and … |