Flash Can Spy On You Via Your Webcam
October 21st, 2012, California, USA – A Stamford computer science student has discovered an exploit that uses Flash to access your webcam secretly, allowing images or even videos of you, your room/office and your O-face to be potentially broadcasted across the web or used for nefarious blackmail-related purposes.
Feross Aboukhadijeh discovered the breach while browsing websites to employ clickjacking on. Flash applets could technically be used spy on users via their webcams without even so much as a click, even an on(rollOver) action would be sufficient to start streaming your mug across the net.
Adobe has released a behind the scenes fix to the Settings Manager, probably involving more framebusting code to stop the file from being loaded in an iframe.
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A million thanks for potsnig this information.
I own the petrol rebel model for a month and I’m not praticulraly satisfied with it, it’s pretty noisy (second wheel I think) to the point I’m able to hear it even while driving a car, the glass isn’t scratch resistant AT ALL, the phosphorescent painting on the hands allows a reading in total darkness for no more than 1 hour I was hooked by the look, but there are just too many drawbacks to make it a good watch IMHO.
Thanks for starting the ball rollnig with this insight.
We could’ve done with that isnihgt early on.