by TapCellPhoneGuy on October 5, 2009

Mobile phone monitoring software (or cell phone spy software, as it sometimes known) helps concerned employers, parents or spouses monitor a cell phone’s activity in real time. This type of software records activity occurring on a smartphone that has the software installed on it. Once the small application has been installed onto the device, the [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on September 25, 2009

Recently I met two soldiers who alerted me to the new security risk of Cell Phone Tapping. SigInt (or signal interception) has long been a part of warfare and espionage. But the possibilities erupt with the advent of cell phone tapping. Imagine the conversation of a soldier being overheard by the enemy – deployment details, [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on August 21, 2009

CNN) — When BlackBerry users in the United Arab Emirates received a text message from their service provider on July 8 instructing them to install an upgrade on their handsets, they had no idea the application also contained software that, according to BlackBerry’s maker, would enable third parties to peek at private information on their [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on July 9, 2009

Had Prince Victor Emmanuel used a secure cellphone he could have saved himself the embarrassment and arrest regarding the allegations of providing prostitutes and dealing in illegal slot machines. Similarly Luciano Moggi (of the soccer game-fixing scandal fame) and Vice President Piero Fassino of the Democratic Left party (and his comments on a sensitive bank [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on July 3, 2009

George Orwell warned of a future without privacy, where big brother could see and hear everything. New technology, that anyone can buy off the internet makes it possible to hack into a person’s cell phone and spy at will. Like many 20-somethings, Brie always has her cell. Especially now that she’s busy networking for a [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on June 29, 2009

Imagine someone watching your every move, hearing everything you say and knowing where you are at every moment. If you have a cell phone, it could happen to you. 13 Investigates explains how your cell phone can be secretly hijacked and used against you – and how to protect yourself. After four months of harassing [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on June 16, 2009

It was reported yesterday that British police are investigating allegations that a top-selling tabloid newspaper, News of the World (owned by Rupert Murdoch’s global empire), paid private investigators to hack into mobile phone signals, allowing recordings to be made of thousands of high-profile figures. Payments of more than $1.6M have reportedly been made to suppress [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on June 6, 2009

Don’t talk: your cell phone may be eavesdropping. Thanks to recent developments in “spy phone” software, a do-it-yourself spook can now wirelessly transfer a wiretapping program to any mobile phone. The programs are inexpensive, and the transfer requires no special skill. The would-be spy needs to get his hands on your phone to press keys [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on June 1, 2009

After four months of harassing phone calls, Courtney Kuykendall was afraid to answer her cell phone. The Tacoma, Washington, teenager was receiving graphic, violent threats at all hours. And when she and her family changed their cell phone numbers and got new phones, the calls continued. Using deep scratchy voices, anonymous stalkers literally took control [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on May 21, 2009

Polish research and development company TechLab 2000, which specializes in secure communications, has designed what it says is a tap-proof mobile phone based on pioneering data encryption technology. The phone, called Xaos Gamma, is the first phone of its kind in the world, according to TechLab executives. It has been designed by an all-Polish team [...]