Mobile stalkerware, also known as spouseware, is monitoring software silently installed by a stalker onto a victim’s device without the victim’s knowledge. Generally, the stalker needs to have ...

The defining feature of 2020 is the global coronavirus pandemic, and a grim effect of the stay-at-home orders has been the documented increase in domestic abuse. If someone is in an abusive ...

A hacktivist has scraped more than half-a-million payment records from a provider of consumer-grade “stalkerware” phone surveillance apps, exposing the email addresses and partial payment information ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Better Business Bureau is sending out a new warning about “stalkerware” or apps that can give another person access to someone else’s phone. They saw a large number of cases in ...

I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps, and ad-blocking software. I also report on online scams and offer advice to families and individuals ...

Stalkerware is often installed secretly on mobile phones by abusive spouses, ex partners and other close contacts to spy on their targets TEMPE, Ariz. and PRAGUE, March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The ...

Android stalker and spyware detection surged by 48% over the past year, and not only do these apps invade user privacy, vendors do not appear to care about tackling vulnerabilities found in their ...

Several companies offering phone-spying apps — known as “stalkerware” — are still advertising in Google search results, despite the search giant’s ban that took effect today, TechCrunch has found.

Note: This story contains descriptions of digital abuse and references to domestic violence. Early in her marriage, Samantha noticed that her husband would disappear into the bathroom for a long time.

COVID-19 impacted volumes for the year, but the U.S. moved into third place on the list of countries most infected by stalkerware. Tens of thousands of mobile users were infected by the class of ...

BLACK HAT USA: We need to be wary of mobile devices and IoT products, now widely abused to facilitate partner coercion, researchers have warned. At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas ...

The official app store is taking on spy- and surveillance-ware, along with apps that could be used to mount political-influence campaigns. Google is taking the step of prohibiting “stalkerware” in ...