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Security Guides
Is Someone Tracking My Phone? How to Know for Sure
Most people who ask this are right that they are being tracked, and wrong about how. The common answer is not hidden software at all — it is a setting someone turned on while holding your phone.
Security Guides
Check Your Phone for Spyware Free: What Works and What Is a Scam
No website can scan your phone, whatever the landing page claims. Here is what free detection can genuinely do, what it cannot, and how to spot the sites that exist to harvest the worried.
Security Guides
How to Remove Spyware Without Tipping Off Whoever Installed It
Every other guide tells you to delete it immediately. If somebody you know is behind it, that is the one move that can make your situation worse. Here is the order that does not.
Security Guides
Signs of a Tapped Phone: Myths vs Reality
Clicking on the line, secret dial codes, a screen that lights up by itself. Almost everything people believe about phone tapping is left over from analogue telephony. Here is what is actually true.
Technical Guides
MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit): An Honest Guide, and Easier Alternatives
The forensic tool behind the Pegasus Project investigation is free and anyone can run it. Here is what it actually does, what running it involves, and how to read a result that says nothing was found.
Security Guides
How to Detect Spyware on Android: What You Can Actually Check
Android lets you look in places iOS forbids, and stalkerware is more common there because of it. Here are the seven settings screens that matter, and the one check that no app on the phone can perform.
Security Guides
Stalkerware: The Signs, and What Not to Do When You Find It
Monitoring software installed by someone you know is a different problem from state spyware, and it needs a different response. The detection is straightforward. The order you do things in is what matters.
Security Guides
How to Tell If Your Phone Is Hacked: The Signs That Matter, and the Ones That Do Not
Most lists of warning signs are padded with symptoms that an old battery explains just as well. Here are the signals that genuinely mean something, the ones that mean almost nothing on their own, and how to tell them apart.
Security Guides
How to Detect Spyware on iPhone Without Installing an App
iPhone antivirus apps cannot scan for spyware — the iOS sandbox forbids it. Here are the five checks you can run yourself, and what only forensic analysis from a computer can reveal.
Threat Intelligence
Pegasus Spyware Check: How to Find Out If Your iPhone Is Infected
Pegasus is zero-click, leaves no icon and sometimes erases itself on reboot. Symptom checklists will not find it. Here is what actually works, including the free tool researchers use.