Can Your Webcam Be Hacked And Overtaken
Remote Administration Tools, or simply RAT, are extensive packages that can give experienced users complete control over targeted machines without going through much hassle. Once infected, the attacker can freely and silently access private data, initiate transfers, record keystrokes, find out passwords, restart the computer and even open the CD/DVD tray. Amongst these “advantages”, remote control of one’s webcam is included. How can a Webcam be Used for Spying? As Ars explains, RAT tools firs appeared in 1998 at a white-hat hacker meeting, where Sir Dystic developed BackOrrifice, a primitive tool which could hack a computer and allow the master to log keystrokes, execute simple file transfers and restart the machine....