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International Women’s Day: awareness of stalkerware, monitoring, and spyware apps on the rise

March 17, 2020 0 Comments bureau of justice statistics, center for disease control and prevention, coalition against stalkerware, international women's day, monitor, monitoring applications, monitoring apps, spyware, Stalkerware, whatsapp

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0000

For International Women’s Day, Malwarebytes is measuring the impact of our own campaign to raise awareness and protect users. These are the numbers on stalkerware, monitoring, and spyware apps.

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Stalkerware and online stalking are accepted by Americans. Why?

February 27, 2020 0 Comments bjs, bureau of justice statistics, cdc, center for disease control and prevention, coalition against stalkerware, cyber stalk, cyber stalking, monitoring app, monitoring applications, monitoring apps, nortonlifelock, online creeping survey, say anything, seven brides for seven brothers, stalk, Stalkerware, stalking, the graduate, the harris poll

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:00:00 +0000

Americans may be accepting and minimizing online stalking behaviors, including the use of invasive apps that can pry into a user’s text messages, emails, photos, videos, and phone logs.

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Stalkerware

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Malwarebytes teams up with security vendors and advocacy groups to launch Coalition Against Stalkerware

November 19, 2019 0 Comments coalition against stalkerware, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, european network for the work with perpetrators of domestic violence, g data, kaspersky, malwarebytes, Malwarebytes news, monitor, monitoring app, monitoring applications, monitoring apps, National Network to End Domestic Violence, nnedv, Operation Safe Escape, Stalkerware, weisser ring

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Today, Malwarebytes is announcing its participation in a joint effort to stop invasive digital surveillance: the Coalition Against Stalkerware.

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Tags: Coalition Against Stalkerware EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation European Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence G Data kaspersky Malwarebytes monitor monitoring app monitoring applications monitoring apps National Network to End Domestic Violence NNEDV Operation Safe Escape stalkerware WEISSER Ring

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How to protect against stalkerware, a murky but dangerous mobile threat

October 9, 2019 0 Comments domestic abuse, domestic violence, monitoring, monitoring applications, monitoring apps, national cyber security awareness month, national cybersecurity awareness month, ncsam, parental monitoring applications, parental monitoring apps, Stalkerware, trackers, tracking applications, tracking apps

Credit to Author: Wendy Zamora| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Stalkerware has capabilities as dangerous as nation-state malware, but is often marketed as legitimate. So how do you protect against stalkerware when it’s not always clear it’s a threat?

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Stalkerware

Tags: domestic abuse domestic violence monitoring monitoring applications monitoring apps national cyber security awareness month national cybersecurity awareness month NCSAM parental monitoring applications parental monitoring apps stalkerware trackers tracking applications tracking apps

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