US spyware vendor pcTattletale has shut down its operations following a serious data breach that exposed sensitive information about its customers, as well as data stolen from some of their victims.
pcTattletale was promoted as “employee and child monitoring software” designed to “protect your business and family.” Of course, what it actually was, was a way to surreptitiously spy upon other people’s phones and computers – secretly viewing everything they did.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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