Know when malware tries to access your Mac’s camera or mic with this app

“I started covering the camera on my laptop around five years ago,” Emily Price writes for Lifehacker. “At the time, my decision was prompted less by a security concern and more because someone handed me a camera cover at a conference, but the threat is most definitely real.”
“Without even mentioning targeted hacks, malware will often spy on computer users, recording video or audio, sometimes in a way that can go entirely undetected,” Price writes. “Oversight is a piece of software for Mac that monitors your Mac’s mic and webcam and then lets you know through a pop up if and when the internal mic in your computer is activated or when an app accesses the webcam.”
More info and links in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Softare is nice, but “hardwre” is foolproof. We use camJAMR camera covers on our iMacs and MacBook Airs. They’re removable/reusable. We’ve stuck and unstuck them hundreds of times. We just leave them on and peel them aside when we want to use our Macs’ cameras.

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