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Take Two

How ratters hack into web cams to spy on your most intimate moments

By Take Two Staff
Published Mar 15, 2013
Watching a woman in Malaysia. Note RAT control center running in background.
Watching a woman in Malaysia. Note RAT control center running in background.
(
Ars Technica
)

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How ratters hack into web cams to spy on your most intimate moments

If you have a laptop or monitor nearby you may notice a little camera. All of those nights you thought you were alone, someone could steal access to that camera and use it as their port hole into your life. And it's actually not all that hard to do.

Nate Anderson has been covering this for Ars Technica.