KUALA LUMPUR: He was enjoying a "dirty" weekend while his wife was away.
He was cocooned in a hotel room with his mistress, blissfully unaware that the game was up.
When he returned home here on Monday, his wife was waiting — with the divorce papers.
The man, who thought he had covered his tracks, had not reckoned with software which can hack into mobile phones.
His wife had enlisted the help of a "black hacker" to listen to her husband’s intimate conversations with his mistress.
According to Sanjay Bavisi, president of the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants, the RM700 software helped nab the husband.
"She was suspicious but had no concrete evidence of his infidelity. Until she contacted a black hacker, who told her about the software," said the information security expert.
The European software, available over the Internet, was used to download a "bug" into the husband’s phone.
After that, she could control the phone via a computer.
"She recorded their conversations and he had no clue someone was listening in."
Welcome to the latest hacking technology where even the mobile phone is not spared.
The "spying" software is one of several in the market which can turn your mobile phone into a technological "snitch", recording and transmitting conversations through remote sensors.
The technical wizardry does not stop with hacking: The software can turn on the phone’s camera, snapping pictures or videotaping events.
All the while, the phone owner remains clueless.
Within minutes after the software is downloaded, the hacker can receive copies of SMS, call logs, emails, locations and eavesdrop on conversations.
The process of downloading is so simple, a hacker may borrow your phone for a few minutes and return it "hacked". Read further...
Source: The New Straits Times
When he returned home here on Monday, his wife was waiting — with the divorce papers.
The man, who thought he had covered his tracks, had not reckoned with software which can hack into mobile phones.
His wife had enlisted the help of a "black hacker" to listen to her husband’s intimate conversations with his mistress.
"She was suspicious but had no concrete evidence of his infidelity. Until she contacted a black hacker, who told her about the software," said the information security expert.
The European software, available over the Internet, was used to download a "bug" into the husband’s phone.
After that, she could control the phone via a computer.
"She recorded their conversations and he had no clue someone was listening in."
Welcome to the latest hacking technology where even the mobile phone is not spared.
The "spying" software is one of several in the market which can turn your mobile phone into a technological "snitch", recording and transmitting conversations through remote sensors.
The technical wizardry does not stop with hacking: The software can turn on the phone’s camera, snapping pictures or videotaping events.
All the while, the phone owner remains clueless.
Within minutes after the software is downloaded, the hacker can receive copies of SMS, call logs, emails, locations and eavesdrop on conversations.
The process of downloading is so simple, a hacker may borrow your phone for a few minutes and return it "hacked". Read further...
Source: The New Straits Times
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