Is your web cam spying on you?

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I can only hope that more people might take this stuff more seriously. If it's a computer, Cell Phone. Biometric ID, RFID, anything that connects to the internet, Phone towers or GPS. It can and will be hacked into. Why? Because they can. Don't be fooled in the saying. It's Secure.

clipped from www.kdvr.com DENVER - Web cameras make it easy to keep in touch with far away friends and family. If you have a web cam on your home computer, laptop or even your cell phone, a hacker can be lurking, just waiting for a chance to gain control. Right now, hackers are spying on innocent users via their web cam and microphones. It starts with a simple email, link or program sent to you. "The bad guys go out there and find vulnerabilities in different applications and programs," says Michael Gregg, COO of Superior Solutions Inc. Once you click on it, your computer is overrun by the hacker's program. The exploit programs can remotely turn on your web cam, watch what you're looking at online; even listen to what you are saying. Even worse, the longer these programs are available to hackers, the easier they are to use. Charles Tendell is a certified ethical hacker. He set up two laptops to explain how it works

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Student says school webcam spied on him at home

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I don't think people realize that all photos from cell phones and video captures from webcams are easily accessible to anyone who knows how to do it. It it goes online for any reason. It can be downloaded to another computer or even streamed. Cell phones a highly accessible to almost anyone.

clipped from www.cnn.com (CNN) -- Pennsylvania parents are suing their son's school, alleging it watched him through his laptop's webcam while he was at home and unaware he was being observed. The lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The suit said that on November 11, an assistant principal at Harriton High School told the plaintiffs' son that he was caught engaging in "improper behavior" in his home and it was captured in an image via the webcam. The parents allege the district unlawfully used its ability to access a webcam remotely on their son's district-issued laptop computer. According to the Robbinses' complaint, neither they nor their son, Blake, were informed of the school's ability to access the webcam remotely at any time

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