{"id":9091,"date":"2013-06-25T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9091"},"modified":"2013-06-25T08:16:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T12:16:45","slug":"how-much-your-webcam-is-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/how-much-your-webcam-is-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Your Webcam Is Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/062313_0357_HowMuchYour1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lisa Vaas looked at the very creepy market for hacked webcams:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hackers have figured out how to remotely activate computer webcams and monitor individuals who are unaware their cameras are compromised.<\/li>\n<li>A black market exists where access to the webcam of a female&#8217;s computer costs $1. Or one could take control of the webcams of 100 males for the same amount.<\/li>\n<li>Aspiring entrepreneurs can easily make a return on their investment by using the embarrassing photos taken by the webcam to blackmail individuals.<\/li>\n<li>Last year several MacBooks were compromised &#8211; the hacker would convince girls to take the computer into the shower by popping up an error message stating that the device&#8217;s internal sensors had to be cleaned by putting it &#8220;near hot steam for several minutes&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>For the most part though losing control of your webcam is rare, is almost always prevented by anti-virus programs, and requires the user to actively be tricked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how the hacks work, how to ensure your camera isn&#8217;t compromised, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2013\/06\/21\/stolen-webcam-video-listed-at-1-per-female-victim-1-per-100-male-victims\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Sophos%29\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2013\/06\/21\/stolen-webcam-video-listed-at-1-per-female-victim-1-per-100-male-victims\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Sophos%29\">Naked Security<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Vaas looked at the very creepy market for hacked webcams: Hackers have figured out how to remotely activate computer webcams and monitor individuals who are unaware their cameras are compromised. A black market exists where access to the webcam of a female&#8217;s computer costs $1. Or one could take control of the webcams of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/062313_0357_HowMuchYour1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9103,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions\/9103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}