How to know if your webcam has been compromised
All laptops come with a webcam installed in the screen. If Mark Zuckerberg himself installed a "cover" on his web camera to protect him, it would be because someone else could hack our webcam to record photos at any time. The key now is to know if we have hacked and are registered with our web camera, but how? We explain to you
As long as the computer is running and has an internet connection, of course this can happen to us by filming us without our knowledge by infecting our computer with viruses as a relatively simple way.
If our webcam works but we do not use it with any program, it is clear that we will have here the first sign that they may have hacked it. To see if your webcam works or not, we have two ways, though one of them is clearer and simpler than the other:
First check if LED flashes are issued, or are on on computers with a "token" for this purpose.
If our webcam works but we do not use it with any program, it is clear that we will have here the first sign that they may have hacked it. To see if your webcam works or not, we have two ways, though one of them is clearer and simpler than the other:
First check if LED flashes are issued, or are on on computers with a "token" for this purpose.
Secondly if there is no light indicator on our computer, we can open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del on the keyboard, right-clicking on the taskbar, searching for the webcam process
If the webcam process is running, you must check whether the operation is producing data exchange. This does not mean categorically that our webcam has been compromised but it indicates that it works, and should be detected if it is related to the program we are running voluntarily, or if it is an unauthorized exchange, if it is hacked.
