{"id":4119,"date":"2008-06-12T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-12T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T16:43:00","slug":"what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/4119-what-you-need-to-know.html","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CyberX computer forensic expert Leon Nel bought one, similar to those used to infiltrate computer systems, from a spy shop in Pietermaritzburg last year. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I bought the device, which sold for R5000, from Spyworld, a firm that sells surveillance equipment to security companies,&rdquo; said Nel.<\/p>\n<p>But you can also pick up cheaper products, ranging between R200 and R300 on the Internet. <\/p>\n<p>The devices, commonly known as &ldquo;key loggers&rdquo; or &ldquo;key grabbers&rdquo;, can be bought as software which can be installed remotely via e- mail. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Electronic Communications &amp; Transactions Act of 2002 it is an offence to use key loggers for any purpose unless it is specifically sanctioned by the State.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=122906\"><strong>Spyware discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer spyware devices used by the crime syndicates are on open sale to the public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}