Online predators target children’s webcams, study finds

It was immediately obvious to us how some of these links could help a predator victimize a child. Online predators use malware to compromise a child's computer system and gain remote access to their webcam. Phishing sites are used to harvest personal information, which can aid the predator in victimizing their target. For example, phishing attacks can give a predator access to the password to a child's computer, which could be used to access and remotely control the child's camera...

https://theconversation.com/online-predators-target-childrens-webcams-study-finds-198052

Teenager solves car blind spots using a webcam and projector | Engadget

As every cyclist knows, the blind spots caused by a car's roof pillars can be extremely dangerous. Although companies are working on various high-tech solutions for this problem, a 14-year-old from Pennsylvania has taken a more low-tech approach to create an ingenious fix for the issue. ..
https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/04/teenager-solves-blind-spots/

Zoom makes it too easy for hackers to access webcams. Here’s what to do - Ars Technica

Read this before clicking on that Web link in your bathrobe.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/zoom-makes-it-too-easy-for-hackers-to-access-webcams-heres-what-to-do/

Serious Security Flaw With Teleconferencing App Could Allow Websites to Hijack Mac Webcams - Gizmodo

On Monday, security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh publicly disclosed a serious zero-day vulnerability in conferencing software Zoom—which apparently achieves its click-to-join feature, which allows users to go directly to a video meeting from a browser link, on Mac computers by installing a local web server running as a background process that "accepts requests regular browsers wouldn't," per the Verge. ....
https://gizmodo.com/serious-security-flaw-with-teleconferencing-app-allowed-1836202438