WA - A man who fatally shot his five children and killed himself had just discovered his wife was leaving him for another man, authorities said...
The night before, the father and his eldest daughter went in search of his wife, Angela Harrison. The daughter used a GPS feature in her mother's cell phone to find her with another man at a convenience store in nearby Auburn, said Ed Troyer, spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff. (more)
Security Director takeaways...
Aside from the eavesdropping and text spyware vulnerabilities, GPS can also be a security issue (for bad or good). Get to know the capabilities of the corporate cell phones you are specifying for your executives.
• Do not give them more features than they really need.
• Make them aware of features which could be used against them. (Google Latitude, for example.)
• Caution them about opening email attachments or temporarily loosing physical control of their phones. Both are opportunities to plant spyware.
• Swap out phones with factory fresh phones on a regular basis for high-value executives. It is cheap insurance against spyware attacks.
• Remember our warning back in December? (this one) Although the news report mentions a cell phone GPS I suspect it is more likely someone slipped a GPS tracker, like Zoombak, into her car. Check your executive vehicles periodically for items like these.
