Your laptop doesn’t need to be hacked to reveal more about you than you’d like. Sometimes, an app simply has permission to use your microphone or camera, and you gave it that permission weeks, months, ...

Your PC's camera is one of those things you probably don't think about until an app asks to use it—or worse, starts using it when you don't expect it.

Ages ago, coworkers asked why I covered my laptop’s webcam. Then they saw a video where a hacker used a remote access trojan (RAT) to spy on two people sleeping. They started taping over their webcam ...

When trying to use the Camera app on our Windows computers, we encountered an error saying that the Camera is reporting that it is blocked or turned off. This is a ...

You've probably wondered why the webcam on your laptop looks so bad. It's hard to point to a single reason, since factors like ambient light can have a major impact on how a camera's image looks.