by TapCellPhoneGuy on October 31, 2009

Is your boss watching you at work via your office-issued electronic device? Probably. And is that legal? Yep! Last week, New York City School Chancellor Joel Klein fired John Halpin, a construction supervisor who has worked for the Department of Education for 21 years, for repeatedly leaving work early. (Ironically, it turns out that he [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on October 30, 2009

Oct. 12–Sneaky people and technology can turn your cell phone against you. Cell phone spyware makes it easy for someone to eavesdrop on your conversations, intercept text messages and identify your location. And you may never know it’s happening, experts say. “You are so dead,” an electronically altered voice taunted Courtney Kuykendall from her cell [...]
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 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 May 5, 2009

MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) — (05/19/09)–What if someone could spy on you using something you carry every day? They could know exactly where you are, and even tap into your private conversations, all by hijacking your cell phone. Security experts say it’s happening often thanks to technology readily available on the Internet. Just think how many times [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on December 10, 2007

KOLKATA: Rizwanur Rahman feared that his cellphone was tapped, a suspicion that CID refused to deny on Thursday. Rizwanur’s suspicion grew when police grilled him on information that he had shared only with Priyanka, select friends and relatives over cellphone. He had, in fact, disclosed his fears to close friends and switched to another service [...]