Collaborate Disseminate
Another mobile stalking app has been hacked, endangering both its customers and the victims that they spy on. Continue reading Hacked stalking app reveals victims’ photos, texts and location info
A growing number of automakers are enabling location tracking in internet-connected cars, a technology that experts say can be misused by abusers to track their victims. Continue reading Connected Car Technology Can Enable Abusers to Track Their Victims
She somehow allowed an online “friend” to get hold of her address – with a tragic outcome. Continue reading Man travels across world to attack online friend, shot by girl’s mum
Reason’s “To Spy on a Cheating Spouse” explains a practice that harms thousands of women who are surveilled by their partners. Continue reading Don’t Use Software to Spy on Your Spouse
This week Facebook terminated an employee who allegedly abused their work-given data access to stalk women. Several sources told Motherboard about the access employees and contractors for the social media giant have. Continue reading Sources: Facebook Has Fired Multiple Employees for Snooping on Users
On Monday, a member of the information security community said they passed Facebook details concerning a security engineer allegedly using their work position to stalk women. Continue reading Facebook Is Investigating a Claim That an Employee Used His Position to Stalk Women
An opaque digital marketing firm based in Tel Aviv attempted to silence a group of researchers after they found that the company was responsible for highly intrusive advertising software which infected upwards of 10,000 Apple computers since 2016. New research by Israeli company Cybereason shows that TargetingEdge, a secretive advertising technology firm, had developed and spread “OSX.Pirrit,” a covert piece of software that can manipulate browsers, track users’ activity and forcefully load digital advertisements. These advertisements appear to be scams, including fake, paid Apple customer channels and disreputable anti-virus software downloads. The lead project researcher Amit Serper described OSX.Pirrit as malware due to the program gaining root access to a victim’s device and attempting to remain hidden in order to avoid being uninstalled or tracked by anti-virus products. Cybereason was able to connect OSX.Pirrit to TargetingEdge by studying how the command and control infrastructure behind the adware would call back […]
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A former policewoman will spend the next 11 months in prison for her decision to harass and stalk a married man online.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Former policewoman who stalked married man is jailed for 11 months
A former policewoman will spend the next 11 months in prison for her decision to harass and stalk a married man online.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Former policewoman who stalked married man is jailed for 11 months
When someone like this is caught and jailed it’s a sobering reminder to check our own digital footprint – here are some tips to help you secure your information Continue reading Man jailed for stealing images and details from more than 50 women