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ComputerCOP: The most dangerous way to spy on your kids' ..

Oct 10, 2014 2:03AM PDT
.. online activity?

Graham Cluley @ Bitdefender's "HOT for Security" Blog:

It's perfectly understandable that many parents are concerned about what their children might be doing on the internet.

Are they the victims of cyberbullying? Discussing drugs or joining criminal gangs? Visiting adult websites? Being groomed by paedophiles or sharing inappropriate photographs online? The list goes on...

But one thing you need to be very careful about is what technology - if any - you use to guard your children.

Therefore, it wouldn't be any surprise at all if many American households chose to try out ComputerCOP - a piece of software handed out hundreds of thousands of times by law enforcement agencies to parents and guardians.

There's only one problem. ComputerCOP is spyware, and so carelessly engineered that it can actually leak private information about your children and other computer users to hackers.

Continued : http://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/computercop-the-most-dangerous-way-to-spy-on-your-kids-online-activity-10408.html

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