While using Facebook, I noticed that my webcam’s flash light is turning on by itself, it was strange for me because the light only turns on when I turn on my webcam. For a while, I thought that why he is sending picture of his girlfriend to me, then I received the picture and opened it because I trusted that guy!Īfter a good discussion of half an hour, I went to sleep and next day I started using my laptop just like my daily routine.

It was the worst thing happened to me two years back, one of my friend(A hacker) sent me an image file and asked me to open it, according to him it was his new girlfriend’s picture.

I’m also a victim of this, because I wasn’t aware two years before that Windows’ PC isn’t as much secure as I think. The worst type of hijacking youngsters are facing these days is the unauthorized access to webcams. If we go back in time, when technology wasn’t this much advanced, people were just using internet and gadgets to satisfy their needs regarding communication and to make their daily routine’s work more automated and easy it’s a myth that everything with advantages have drawbacks too, with more benefits internet brings more dangers to privacy and confidentiality. In our daily routine, it’s usual now to have news about people becoming victims of hackers and black mailers. With an immense growth in IT and Online World, dangers to privacy have increased. This case study cum guide will help you to secure your webcam from hackers and others who want to snatch a piece of cake from your privacy and confidentiality.

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