Crooks misusing police mobile apps

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Mobile phone applications are convenient tools for people to complete different tasks. Besides, it’s easy to install and use when you have a smartphone. In India, the police of Tumakuru had launched a mobile app to the public so people can use this app to report incidents online and get responses immediately. Although it brings benefit to the public but still have some criminal use the police app to hack people’s bank account by entering their phone number in the police app make a false report and get the victim duplicate SIM so the victim would not receive any alert message of money transaction. Therefore the victim money was transferred to the criminal account without and notice. There are some people misuse the mobile apps for crime action when it’s convenient to all users. To solve this issue the police department must discuss with the technical team to improve the app secure. (Gowhar, 2016)

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By: Ivan Tang

How safe are your mobile banking apps?

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People are relying more on using banking apps to do transaction and it is a chance for the fraudster to steal bank customer’s money through banking apps. Fraudster also creates a fake banking apps to steal personal details and use the phone number to access victim financial information. The malware which create by the fraudster will attack the victim banking apps to get personal details and misuse it. To prevent becoming a victim people must download the banking apps from the official channel and be aware of the message send by SMS which ask for bank account number. In addition, the banker can put in six or 4 digit authentication PIN for every customer and auto block the customer who not use the apps for a specific time. It’s a way to protect customer’s privacy. (vishwanathan, 2016)

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By: Ivan Tang

Oovoo: Parents claim paedophiles are using smartphone app to target children

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Misuse on social media apps also can impact a child's life when the criminal use those apps to allure children and became a harassment issue. Some paedophilia will use the apps to send sexual messages to the children and mislead them. Besides, children use those social media apps to meet strangers and get cheated by them. To prevent this issue parents must filter out inappropriate websites and ensure their child is enough age to join the social networking site. Parents also need to educate their children not to communicate with strangers by using the social media apps and teach them to use the safety function of the apps block the strangers so they can reduce the harassment issues. (GLENDINNING, 2016)

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By: Ivan Tang

‘Stalker apps’ and GPS allow domestic violence abusers to discover hidden refuges.

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Refuges that house victim of domestic violence are increasingly being discovered by perpetrators using “stalker apps” and GPS locators hidden in their victim’s phone, cars and others. Through these apps and GPS locators the prey know exactly the locations of their victims. These victims live in fear as there are nowhere to escape from their abusers. The stalking technology cannot be stopped because something as simple as public transport card can locate the users. Hence, the Australian Prime Minister has declared the misuse of technology in domestic violence an issue and promised a national plan. The workers in domestic violence sectors believed education and awareness is the only solutions. 

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Posted By: Vivien Ngai