Get your laptop, painter's tape, and roll of aluminum foil ready. Here we go. Cut two two-inch strips of aluminum foil, about ...

If you’re worked about hackers or people spying on you through your webcam, it may be time to pick up a webcam cover for your computer. According to the latest research, more and more people have had ...

Some experts see webcam covers as a final safeguard, while others don't see them as useful at all. (Photo: sorbetto via Getty Images) If you are paranoid about people seeing things they should not ...

If you're still working from home like much of the world during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, you may be taking certain steps to boost your cybersecurity during frequent Zoom meetings, like ...

Now, it’s easy to imagine hackers wanting access to both the F.B.I. Director’s laptop as well as Mark Zuckerberg’s Macbook Pro, but would they want to access the webcam on a random person’s computer?

A new company called Striiiipes — yes that’s not a typo — launched leather webcam covers on Kickstarter earlier this month that have already exceeded their funding goal. Granted, that goal was only ...

In 2016, a photo of Mark Zuckerberg caught the Internet’s attention. The photo, which showed the Facebook CEO in the company’s corporate headquarters, seemed ordinary enough save for one detail: his ...

John Goncalves is a bit of a maverick. Unlike most everyone he knows, he doesn’t cover the tiny webcam at the top of his laptop screen with a plastic slider or piece of tape. “Everybody tells you, ...

FBI director James Comey was previously seen commenting in a Q&A that he uses his own privacy methods to protect himself from surveillance. The method involves a piece of store-bought tape which he ...

FBI director James Comey recently recommended that we all cover our webcams with tape for security reasons. Comey believes that doing so is a simple step for people to "take responsibility for their ...