Four years jail for voyeur hacker who sp

The Great Lover · Subject: Four years jail for voyeur hacker who sp Mon Aug 25 2008, 15:13

Experts at SophosLabs™,
Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers,
are reminding computer users about the importance of properly securing
PCs, following news that a man has been jailed for prey upon young
women via internet webcams.

The 47-year-old man from Cyprus has been given a four year jail
sentence after hacking a teenage girl's webcam, in order to take
illicit pictures of the young woman in her bedroom.

The man, who has not been named but is a computer technician in
Nicosia, spied on the then 17-year-old girl through her webcam after
infecting her PC with a spyware Trojan horse that he sent her as an
email attachment.

The middle-aged hacker took compromising photos of the teenager while
she was alone in her bedroom for an extended period of time without her
knowledge, and then threatened to send the pictures to her email
contacts unless she posed naked in front of the webcam. The girl
refused and the police were contacted, resulting in the man's arrest in
2005.

"Most spyware is designed to steal your identity, your passwords, your
banking information - but it is just as easy to program a Trojan horse
to take over your webcam," said Graham Cluley, senior technology
consultant for Sophos. "This case highlights that as well as malware
being used for financial gain, it can also be used by voyeurs. Everyone
needs to treat computer security as paramount importance to ensure they
do not fall victim to an internet blackmailer or peeping tom."

Sophos notes that there have been other cases in the past where hackers
have taken remote control of innocent users' webcams in order to spy
upon them.

In early 2005, Spanish authorities fined a student who captured movie
footage from unsuspecting users, and arrested a 37-year-old man who
spied on victims via a webcam while stealing banking information. The
following year, Adrian Ringland, from the British town of Ilkeston,
Derbyshire, was sentenced to jail for ten years after admitting posing
as a minor on internet chatrooms and using spyware to take explicit
photographs via children's webcams. Earlier this year, a 27-year-old
Canadian man was charged with using spyware to take over the webcams of
women as young as 14 and coercing them into posing naked for him.

pisces · Member Number of posts: 143 Age: 25 Registration date: 2008-09-17

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