{"id":4982,"date":"2016-10-21T15:05:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T20:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:44:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:44:56","slug":"protect-webcam-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/protect-webcam-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Protect Your Webcam from Hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personal webcams can be \u2014 and are \u2014 hacked. If someone wanted to hack into your computer\u2019s webcam, he or she probably could. That\u2019s why it\u2019s essential to take precautions to protect yourself from being spied on via your webcam. Here are four precautions you can \u2014 and should \u2014 take to make sure your webcam isn\u2019t hacked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turn your webcam off or cover it up.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Hackers can\u2019t gain access to your webcam if it isn\u2019t on. So, if you\u2019re not using it, turn off the portable webcam you might have for your desktop PC. If you\u2019re using a laptop, close the webcam\u2019s sliding cover, or if you don\u2019t have one of those, cover the webcam with a piece of electrical tape or a Post-It note.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/researchers-studying-ways-prevent-car-hacking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More: Researchers are Studying Ways to Prevent Car-Hacking<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Change your password.<br \/>\n<\/strong>A webcam that connects to a Wi-Fi network will have a settings page that requires you to set a username and password. If you haven\u2019t changed your password from the default that came with the network, then you\u2019re making your webcam vulnerable to hacking. Sophisticated hackers will certainly know the passwords associated with popular webcam brands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep an eye out for the indicator light.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Most built-in webcams have a light next to them when they\u2019re in use. If your light is lit when you\u2019re not using it, don\u2019t just assume that there\u2019s a glitch with your computer. Instead, you should assume that your computer might have been breached by hackers, and you should take precautions to remove the malware from your computer immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enable your firewall.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Your PC should be protected by a firewall to stop all kinds of malicious attacks. A firewall is a piece of hardware or software that tracks network traffic to make sure there\u2019s no unauthorized access attempts on your Wi-Fi network. On Windows computers, the firewall is turned on by default. You can check to see yours is enabled by navigating to the control panel and typing in \u201cFirewall.\u201d Once you click on Windows Firewall, you\u2019ll have the option to turn the program on or off.<\/p>\n<p>After you\u2019ve secured your webcam, make sure your PC is equally secure with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/origin.psafe.com\/en\/antivirus-acelerador-limpeza-windows\/total\/\" target=\"_blank\">PSafe Total for Windows<\/a><\/strong>. PSafe\u2019s unmatched anti-virus protection ensures that your computer is protected from hackers 24 hours a day, while its optimization settings will help make sure your PC is running as smoothly as the day you bought it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you don\u2019t use your webcam, it\u2019s still a window into your private world that is vulnerable to hackers. Take a few of the following precautions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[364,2736,259,3300,3297,3294],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tutoriais","tag-camera","tag-hack","tag-hackers","tag-protect-webcam","tag-webcam-hack","tag-webcam-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}