Topic: Marisel Garcia Caught in Webcam Spy Hacker Craig Feigin Case

[sam]

another reason to fix you computer by posting on here.. 

http://www.groundreport.com/Media_and_Tech/Marisel-Garcia-Caught-in-Webcam-Spy-Hacker-Craig-F

Marisel Garcia is one of eight or nine women in the Gainesville, Florida who is a victim of a Webcam Spy Hacker voyeurism scandal, orchestrated by Craig Feigin.

Craig Feigin, a computer programmer, worked on Marisel Garcia's computer to fix her laptop. When she got her machine back from Feigin, it had a slew of other problems so she brought it to another area repair man. One of the new problems was that the computer's built-in camera light came on every time she was near the machine.

When Marisel Garcia got her computer back, she learned that Craig Feigin had installed a program called Webcam Spy Hacker that was using her computer's camera to take pictures of her and send them to a Web server. Apparently Feigin had 20,000 photos of Garcia and her friends, in some of which Garcia was not fully clothed.

Craig Feigin was arrested and held on $20,000 bail after he admitted to rigging Marisel Garcia's computer, and other women's computers, with Webcam Spy Hacker. Under Florida law, he could be charged with a felony and face jail time.

Source: Ars Technica

[Simon]

Just to clarify, you mean by posting on PC Pals, not the referenced link!   

Have to admit, I'm nervous of webcams, and have never used one.

[sam]

all the machines in the undergraduate computing labs here have them... and they are all turned to face the wall! lol