Tag: spyware
10 Warning Signs Your Phone May Be Spying On You
Over the last few years, there has been an explosion of malicious spyware and stalkerware infiltrating our phones through apps and links… Undoubtedly, it is becoming easier for hackers to […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: No 10 victim of ‘spyware attack’, claims cyber watchdog
The Prime Minister’s Downing Street office may have been the target of surveillance by powerful spyware made by the Israel-based NSO Group, according to a cyber watchdog group. Citizen Lab […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: iPhone 13 to have terabyte storage option?
Apple could be about to upgrade the iPhone 13 with huge amounts of new storage, according to a last minute rumour. The company is planning to release the new phones in the […]
Supermicro denies claims of Chinese spy chips in hardware
Computer chip maker Supermicro has told customers an investigation into claims that Chinese spyware was inserted into its hardware has found no evidence of malicious hardware in its products. […]
Facebook suing Israeli company over ‘WhatsApp spyware’
Facebook is suing the Israeli hacker-for-hire company NSO Group for allegedly targeting some 1,400 users of its encrypted messaging service WhatsApp with highly sophisticated spyware. The lawsuit filed in San […]
Andy Murray is the most dangerous British Olympic athlete…in cyberspace
Andy Murray has been named the most dangerous British Olympic athlete, but not perhaps for the reasons you'd first think. No, it's not his speeding-bullet tennis serve, nor the thought of his (frankly terrifying) mum flying at you in a…
Android malware connects to botnet and makes premium rate calls by rooting itself
The Android operating system has had yet another serious piece of malware sully its name today, as an Android app called com.google.android.smart has been discovered to be a premium rate texts, calls and botnet scam. The malware itself has been…
Mobile Spy software hits jailbroken iPads, logs email and web history records
Retina-X Studios have released Mobile Spy, an iPad app that runs secretly in the background of the tablet, tracking email and web history. The software will only run on jailbroken iPads, which is convenient, as this is never getting past…
Don't go to (click on) Hong Kong – one-in-five .hk domain names are scams
Fear-spreader and paranoia-monger McAfee has raised panic levels of internet browsers to DEFCON 2 today, with its latest guidance on web sites that will do bad things to your computer when/if you visit them.
And it’s the Hong Kong domains – web sites ending in .hk – that are the biggest causers of trouble. Trouble like having pornography set as your home page, trouble like…
Windows Live OneCare launches internationally
Though it had a lower profile than Vista, a major release of Windows Live OneCare launched last week in 17 countries including the UK. The software package provides a unified virus and spyware scanner, flexible file backup options, and support…
