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Can hackers enable the camera after the user disabled it? [closed]
A person I know got a spam email saying to pay a ransom of 1000$ for his personal information. The spammer sent him an old password he used in an old email as proof; the email is linked to his ...
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taskhostw.exe asks for webcam usage
ESET prompted a window that taskhostw.exe wants to access the webcam on my laptop. The exe is from system32. I turned off camera access before but it seems like a system update turned it back on ...
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How are webcam LED wired
People are getting paranoid about their webcams nowadays. What I am wondering is, are those LED's that indicate that the webcam is working wired in such a way that they can be disabled?
I would have ...
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Can applications push themselves in Windows?
Can application/programs be pushed in Windows?
I have a web-cam(Life-Cam HD) which has a button on it to open an application.So from what i understand, it triggers a script which opens the desired ...
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How to restrict access to Ethernet ports outside of physical permiter
I have several PoE IP webcams installed on my house. Each mounting point has only one wire going to it: the Cat6 with 8P8C plug at the end, which both powers and communicates with the camera.
I ...
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Webcam automatically takes picture when the computer wakes up
Is it possible to have the webcam take a picture if my computer is woken from sleep mode?
I have seen that there are some programs with motion detection, but I would prefer a method that takes a ...
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Finding out which app is using the webcam
Yesterday I was working on my laptop. Suddenly I noticed that the indicator light of the webcam was on, despite the fact that I wasn't making a video call or using the webcam in any other way at the ...
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How to know your built-in webcam specification and functionalities (security related)?
I've made series of pentests in my network and one of the things I've tried was record webcam and microphone. Recording microphone seems for final users a stealth thing. But what about the webcam? In ...
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Take a webcam photo on login using Windows 7
How do I set up my webcam to capture an image on the sly each time my account (or any account) logs on? Is there some specific software that will do this?
I have a Logitech QuickCam Fusion cam and ...
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Webcam security camera software that runs as a service
I've been looking for Windows webcam software that will run as a Windows service without any user login. The goal is to use the webcam as a cheap security camera and log the results to secure ...
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Webcam Security Software Running on Computer - Any OS?
Are there any security room-monitoring software that runs through a webcam on the computer? (This thread isn't a duplicate of Free CCTV software using webcam running on Windows)
The features I'm ...
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Is there any good software to remotely take photos of someone who has stolen my macbook?
I'm just wondering if anyone knows of an app I could install on my macbook pro that would allow me to photograph someone who has stolen it and receive their photo when they connect to the internet. I ...
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Motion detection software
I have a WMV file that's 5 hours long. It's mostly just a camera focused on the entry door.
Is there any software where I can throw this file at it and it would find time segments where there is ...
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Webcam as a security camera [closed]
I am looking to mount a webcam on my laptop (which sits at home all day) to act as a security camera.
I'd like to it to write the video to an external hard drive, which I can then review later. It ...
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