{"id":2430,"date":"2012-05-11T21:28:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T02:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2012-05-11T21:29:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T02:29:40","slug":"fox-8-news-hackers-gain-access-to-homes-through-webcams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2012\/05\/11\/fox-8-news-hackers-gain-access-to-homes-through-webcams\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox 8 News &#8211; Hackers Gain Access to Homes Through Webcams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?deepLinkEmbedCode=Bmb3FuNDphaickVSP2md1-w2YZ39IpyG&#038;height=360&#038;embedCode=Bmb3FuNDphaickVSP2md1-w2YZ39IpyG&#038;video_pcode=hvZXE6LAucDf6RdQ6h18j_W_oNxg&#038;width=640\"><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Fox 8 News in Cleveland put together this story of <a href=\"http:\/\/fox8.com\/2012\/05\/09\/hackers-gain-access-to-homes-through-webcams\/\">computer webcams being accessed without authorization through malicious software<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I had a chance to speak to them as a member of Geek Squad on signs that your PC may be infection with malware, such as viruses or spyware.<\/p>\n<p>In general, webcams are not a target for most malicious software, but it&#8217;s important to help protect your PC from malware where you can.  Keeping your antivirus software up to date and set to scan your computer on a regular basis will help.  Making sure your operating system and web browser plug-ins like Java, Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader will help as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox 8 News in Cleveland put together this story of computer webcams being accessed without authorization through malicious software. I had a chance to speak to them as a member of Geek Squad on signs that your PC may be infection with malware, such as viruses or spyware. In general, webcams are not a target &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2012\/05\/11\/fox-8-news-hackers-gain-access-to-homes-through-webcams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fox 8 News &#8211; Hackers Gain Access to Homes Through Webcams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[100,74,68,244,42,141,282,75,245,330,449,281,329],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news","tag-best-buy","tag-cleveland","tag-computers","tag-fox-8-news","tag-geek-squad","tag-internet","tag-malware","tag-ohio","tag-pcs","tag-spyware","tag-technology","tag-viruses","tag-webcams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}