Four years jail for voyeur hacker who spied via webcam

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.