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You probably haven't seen PimEyes, a mysterious facial-recognition search engine, but it may have spotted you.
AirTag users, owners of other Apple devices, and even people who don’t own a single Apple product—the company wants its new tracker to respect everybody’s privacy.
Cyberstalkers typically like to collect as much information about their target as possible. They want to know where they are at any given moment; who they’re meeting; who they’re talking to; what their texts say; who they’re emailing; what they’re browsing for online. Knowledge is power, and having
Consumer Reports shows you how to shut stalkers out of your tech, noting that people facing domestic abuse can take these steps to lock down their devices and eliminate stalkerware.
Information pulled from cars’ computers has been used to solve murders, and stalk exes.
New surveillance tools can help you scout the coffee shop line — or check on your ex.
You deserve privacy. Here's how to check your phone, laptop, and online accounts to make sure no one's looking over your shoulder.
As domestic violence survivors quarantine with abusers, stalkerware detections have increased since the pandemic began, some security researchers say.
This experiment examines the effects of media portrayals of persistent pursuit on beliefs about stalking. Exposure to a film that depicted persistent pursuit as...
A new study showed that 1 in 10 Americans admitted to using stalkerware. Even more found no problem with "online stalking." How did we get here?
Exclusive: KidsGuard siphoned off photos, videos, screenshots and call recordings to an unprotected server.
A woman has been left in shock and with a deep distrust of cyber security laws after her ex-boyfriend used an app to control her car and stalk her.
Human Rights Attorney Joins Clinic as First Director to Expand Outreach and Activism Cornell Tech announced today its Computer Security Clinic for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence, a crucial step in sustaining and expanding the clinic’s groundbreaking work with vulnerable people. An interdisciplinary research team at Cornell Tech, with collaborators from Cornell University in Ithaca […]
The FTC’s move comes after Motherboard revealed a hacker had repeatedly breached Retina-X and gained access to sensitive user data.
Many women are unaware that they are being spied on with apps hidden on their phones. App-store owners must do more.
The apps, which could be used to spy on other people’s devices, had been downloaded a total of 130,000 times. The news: Researchers at cybersecurity firm Avast discovered seven stalkerware apps on the Play Store this week. The most-installed apps were Spy Tracker and SMS Tracker, with more than 50,000 downloads each. The researchers reported them…
To prove a point about common location-sharing apps, I asked my wife to use them to spy on me.
As Malwarebytes works to improve its detection of stalkerware, we're also working to better protect the victims of this nefarious type of software. Here are some tips for survivors of domestic abuse who suspect they are being watched through stalkerware.