How to Catch a Webcam Hacker?
I have had the same MacBook for about four years now, and it's the best computer I've ever owned.
But I have reason to believe that about two weeks ago, my webcam was hacked.
I am currently deployed to Afghanistan and was logged into Gmail one evening, not using the computer but reading a magazine in bed with my laptop facing me. After about 15 minutes of reading, I looked up at my computer to shut it down for the night and when I looked at the screen, I could see myself in bed. The green light next to the webcam was on, and my iPhoto application was enabled. As soon as I saw this, the camera shut off, the iPhoto application shut down, and the computer logged itself off.
I have never seen anything like this happen in the four years I've owned this computer. I feel preyed upon and I want to catch whoever did this so I told the local law enforcement authorities but they said that in order to do any kind of analysis on my laptop, they'd have to sent it off to the U.S. and it would be at least a month and a half before I could get it back. But I'm going home in less than a month so I want to find a quicker solution. I called Apple and they said that there is nothing they can do to troubleshoot the computer to see if anyone has been hacking into my machine.
I would like to know if there is anything I can do to a) find out who did this and b) prevent them from doing it again, especially if they're doing it to other people on the local network. I have since put a piece of black electrical tape over the lens.
Thanks for any help!
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)