Not Just Russians: Britain’s Webcam Computer Spies – Beastrabban\’s Weblog
One of the major stories over the past week or so has been that a Russian website is showing hacked images from webcams from around the world, including about 600 or so from Britain, writes The Beast.
This has naturally caused alarm at the way the potential exists for people’s private computers to be attacked and used to spy on them.
The Russians, however, are not the first or only people to have developed and used such software.
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The Cameras weren’t hacked! The owners set them up on an open internet channel and didn’t change the passwords. They weren’t hacked, they left the door open.
Amnesty International have produced an anti-spyware tool called “Detekt” to counter government surveillance:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/new-tool-spy-victims-detect-government-surveillance-2014-11-20
Not foolproof – it’s only a spy’s tweak away from being outfoxed – but it’s a step in the right direction!
Here is another interesting report about malware:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/24/malware-regin-surveillance-companies-government-individuals-symantec