This week, Apple notified customers in 110 countries around the world (150 countries to date) that they “may have been targeted with spyware capable of hacking into their devices.” Apple notifies users “directly on their iPhone lock screen with a push notification that urges the person to take action.” The threat alert will read “Apple
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Privacy Tip #299 – Creepy SpyFone Banned by FTC
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
In a second case against stalkerware apps and the first where the FTC has banned a company from doing business, the FTC announced on September 1, 2021, that it has “banned SpyFone and its CEO…from the surveillance business over allegations that the stalkerware app company secretly harvested and shared data on people’s physical movements, phone…
FTC Settles First Case Involving Stalkerware
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
Posted in Data Privacy
Would you hand over your smartphone, including your call history, text messages, photos, GPS locations, and browser history to your employer? To your significant other? How about to a random stranger? I’m guessing your answer is an overwhelming “No” to each of these questions.
Stalkerware and stalking apps do just that. Both are spyware that…
Spyware Company Hacked
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
It has been reported that a hacker was able to break into the servers of TheTruthSpy, a company that is described as “one of the most notorious stalkerware companies out there” (Motherboard, August 2018) and was able to steal logins, audio recordings, text messages, and pictures of victims.
Motherboard has issued a…