​IT Security Tip: Why you might want to cover up your webcam with a sticker ?

​This Week’s Cybersecurity Tip of the Week, provided by PacketLogix

​IT Security Tip: Why you might want to cover up your webcam with a sticker ?
 
Here’s a disturbing, but very real, tactic for hackers: spying on you via your device’s camera. Some simply watch you for fun. Others attempt to catch incriminating photos and then blackmail you by threatening to release the photos or video (which they have) to all your Facebook friends, LinkedIn connections or e-mail address book (which they also have) unless you pay a ransom. If you pay, they can come back and ask for MORE because they now know you care AND that you’ll pay. If you don’t pay, they will release that picture of you doing, um, well… 
 
As always, follow the various security strategies we’ve been sending you via these tips. As a backup, you can buy stickers that cover your camera with a slider so you can uncover it when you want to actually use it to take a picture or join a web meeting. In fact, we have them and will give you one for free.  Just give us a call or email below. 
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