With growing use of the internet and mobile phone telephony, most children are now are now fully plugged in to the world of instant communication, but with that also comes potential hazards. It provides a growing opportunity for paedophiles to groom kids more easily than ever before. To counter such threats, a new mobile phone app called Child Defence has been designed that recognises the differences in the patterns of communication between children, and adults that pretend to be children. (more…)

Hopefully, you are not on the radar of any law enforcement agencies or having an affair. If you have any apprehensions that your conversations are being spied upon or recorded by clandestine means, or you have important phone conversations which, if intercepted, can cause you physical or financial harm, you might want to get hold of a tape recorder blocker.

It works on digital and conventional tape recorders or any microphones which may be used in any kind of spying device and looks pretty innocuous to boot. The device works by generating a sound which is inaudible to the human ear but blocks out any recorded sound. (more…)

Most people wear a wristwatch, so if you have a recorder which takes the place of a watch, then it is as innocuous as it can get. Imagine you are in a situation where you want to record what somebody is saying to you and you don’t have another recorder with you. You can simply use your wristworn recorder.

This wristworn recorder has voice activation features, so it saves battery life, and saves you the pain of listening to blank pauses or unnecessary sounds. On a single full charge, it can record for 12 hours and comes with 500 MB storage SD card (you can optionally buy larger capacity cards with memory up to 2 GB). . One gig of memory is good for 18 hours of recording time. You can easily get more cards, so when one card is full, you can switch to another and continue recording as long as the device is charged. (more…)

It looks and works like a regular mouse. It comes with a USB cable so it can be attached to any desktop or laptop. It is not a simple mouse; it contains an audio bug to enable you to listen to conversations around and near the mouse. (more…)

If you are are worried about being spied on by a camera and want to reassure yourself you are not subject to any such activity, you may think about buying a bug detector. Bug detectors range in cost depending on the level of complexity, but Maplin offers the rather simple yet popular Pro Hunter detector at 15.99. It was one of the early bug detectors we reviewed on this site and was priced much dearer then, and though it does have its limitations in that it only has a coverage area of 5 metres and detects only wireless, it can be handy in some situations and to carry it around on yourself as its small. That is if you are worried about any irregular activity, of course.

Latest news shows not at all. Everybody knows there are various spy softwares available for listening in on mobile telephonic conversations, but usually these have to be installed and come at a great expense, making it impractical. However, security researchers, Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut have demonstrated that open source software along with four cheap phones can enable eavesdropping on any GSM phone.

At the recent Chaos Computer Club Congress in Berlin the duo showed how they had developed the toolkit which helps them listen in to any conversation. And this is not only verbal calls, but also any data. They took the audience through the whole process. They could get hold of the phone’s unique id and intercept the data while on its way to the base station from the phone used. (more…)