Is Your Macbook Webcam Spying on You?

Researchers have now confirmed that Macbooks manufactured prior to 2008 are vulnerable to spying attacks that allow the webcams to be activated without activating their lights. Although the study only focused on the pre-2008 Macbooks, researchers seem to think that most laptops with built-in webcams are vulnerable to spying as well.

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It has long been theorized that a computer's webcam could be used for spying. In recent years, some privacy-centered individuals have covered up their webcams to prevent an individual or government spy agency from checking in on them.

Most people however, have avoided covering their webcam thinking that the webcam's light would go on if someone had hacked into it, but this may not actually be the case. New research and individual accounts of webcam spying have concluded that if someone wants to hack into a person's Macbook webcam, its light can be disabled in some situations, allowing the spying to go undetected.

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