Cyber-stalking generally involves using electronic communication to harass, disturb, threaten, pursue, intimidate, or “follow” someone against their will, without their permission and to the detriment (whether it be psychological, emotional or physical) of the victim(s) in question.
This can be done through bullying, domestic abuse also, young and older adults, everyone is vulnerable to cyber stalking.
With the growth of the Internet, cyber-stalking crimes are increasing. The Internet has become a useful tool for stalkers.
The veil of anonymity allows the perpetrator to exercise power and control over the victim by threatening the victim directly or posting messages that lead third parties to engage in harassment and threatening behavior toward the victim.
This veil also allows predators to lure children, men, women to commit sex crimes, or lure their victims to be kidnapped and sold through the deep webs human trafficking sites.
Please report any activity including social media where you think you or anyone may have been a victim to your authorities in your country. You could be saving a life.
Please take 2minutes of you day to visit this website become a digital defender for your children, from sexual abuse and child trafficking, being stalked by predators on the internet. https://www.wearethorn.org/
1) When setting up social media don't use the same email address you would for your personal email and banking.
2) choose a very strong password, combinations of letters, numbers, upper and lower case, symbols.
3) change your passwords every three months, use your phone as extra security for identification of an account.
4) write your passwords down in a diary for safe keeping, don't keep them on your computer.
5) if you have a camera on your computer screen and you don't use it, put a piece of paper with tape over the camera.
6) don't open emails that you are unsure of and don't know who they are from, they could be malware designed to get into your computer.
7) use security on your computer, paid not free, free does not do the same job. Buy a malware program and once a month do a malware screen of your hard-drive. Malware programs are relative cheap to buy.
8) If you have children using the computer be aware of their movements, what sites they visit, what they are doing on social media. Be vigilant it could just save your child's life.
With the growth of the Internet, cyber-stalking crimes are increasing. The Internet has become a useful tool for stalkers.
The veil of anonymity allows the perpetrator to exercise power and control over the victim by threatening the victim directly or posting messages that lead third parties to engage in harassment and threatening behavior toward the victim.
This veil also allows predators to lure children, men, women to commit sex crimes, or lure their victims to be kidnapped and sold through the deep webs human trafficking sites.
Please report any activity including social media where you think you or anyone may have been a victim to your authorities in your country. You could be saving a life.
U.N. Says #Cyber Violence Is Equivalent to Physical #Violence Against Women 73% of women have experienced cyber violence, according to a new report. Read the Full report from the United Nations Here
We have put up the direct link to the United NationsPlease take 2minutes of you day to visit this website become a digital defender for your children, from sexual abuse and child trafficking, being stalked by predators on the internet. https://www.wearethorn.org/
Thirty years ago, child sexual abuse imagery was mainly shared via the postal service – making it incredibly difficult to find like-minded individuals who shared this content. Today, almost all child sexual abuse imagery is traded online.
Advances in connectivity, data storage, file sharing and smartphone technology have contributed to an explosive increase in this content and its reach and have made it easier for those who share this abusive content to connect and form communities.
Technology has also created new opportunities for child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation beyond the sharing of child sexual abuse imagery. Now abusers are leveraging the anonymity of the Internet for sex-tortion and also leveraging live video feeds for live-streaming sex abuse.
These crimes are often difficult to detect because they use the shame of the activity to keep victims silent and use technologies that often mask the abuser’s identity.
- See more at: https://www.wearethorn.org/child-pornography-and-sexual-abuse/#sthash.Q6vBSzaJ.dpuf
Thirty years ago, child sexual abuse imagery was mainly shared via the postal service – making it incredibly difficult to find like-minded individuals who shared this content. Today, almost all child sexual abuse imagery is traded online. Advances in connectivity, data storage, file sharing and smartphone technology have contributed to an explosive increase in this content and its reach and have made it easier for those who share this abusive content to connect and form communities.
Technology has also created new opportunities for child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation beyond the sharing of child sexual abuse imagery. Now abusers are leveraging the anonymity of the Internet for sextortion and also leveraging live video feeds for live-streaming sex abuse. These crimes are often difficult to detect because they use the shame of the activity to keep victims silent and use technologies that often mask the abuser’s identity.
- See more at: https://www.wearethorn.org/child-pornography-and-sexual-abuse/#sthash.Q6vBSzaJ.dpuf
Thirty years ago, child sexual abuse imagery was mainly shared via the postal service – making it incredibly difficult to find like-minded individuals who shared this content. Today, almost all child sexual abuse imagery is traded online. Advances in connectivity, data storage, file sharing and smartphone technology have contributed to an explosive increase in this content and its reach and have made it easier for those who share this abusive content to connect and form communities.
Technology has also created new opportunities for child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation beyond the sharing of child sexual abuse imagery. Now abusers are leveraging the anonymity of the Internet for sextortion and also leveraging live video feeds for live-streaming sex abuse. These crimes are often difficult to detect because they use the shame of the activity to keep victims silent and use technologies that often mask the abuser’s identity.
- See more at: https://www.wearethorn.org/child-pornography-and-sexual-abuse/#sthash.Q6vBSzaJ.dpufThirty years ago, child sexual abuse imagery was mainly shared via the postal service – making it incredibly difficult to find like-minded individuals who shared this content. Today, almost all child sexual abuse imagery is traded online. Advances in connectivity, data storage, file sharing and smartphone technology have contributed to an explosive increase in this content and its reach and have made it easier for those who share this abusive content to connect and form communities.
Technology has also created new opportunities for child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation beyond the sharing of child sexual abuse imagery. Now abusers are leveraging the anonymity of the Internet for sextortion and also leveraging live video feeds for live-streaming sex abuse. These crimes are often difficult to detect because they use the shame of the activity to keep victims silent and use technologies that often mask the abuser’s identity.
- See more at: https://www.wearethorn.org/child-pornography-and-sexual-abuse/#sthash.Q6vBSzaJ.dpuf
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We belong to Ark of Hope. 46% of stalking victims felt fear of not knowing what would happen next. ... Sexually Assaulted Children – 95% of victims were assaulted by a male.
We also saw cyber stalking and hacking in the controversial abuse novels Fifty Shades of Grey.
When Christian Grey stalks Anastasia, tracks her phone, accesses her emails and bank account details and sells her car without her knowledge or permission........this is stalking, cyber stalking, abuse and is a crime. (This is not romantic, sexy or loving, it is terrifying in reality for any victim).
Jamie Dornan stalked a women for his role in a TV show the Fall breaking the law committing a crime.
This again is not funny, sexy, it is absolutely terrifying for the victim.... a criminal offense.
Criminal Minds Season 10 episode 23 is a about cyber stalking, sex crimes. Children and adults being cyber stalked then kidnapped to be sold online to a site selling for serial killers. For all readers if you think this is not real think again because it happens every day. A must watch for everyone.
Professionals who deal with sex crimes, stalking, not only deal with sex crimes through cyber stalking, but human trafficking, where humans are sold and bought for human harvesting, sex crimes, serial killers.
We have personally seen working on a case, where a business man in Australia, married with a family, living a double life, his family oblivious to his other life. His other life was the life of a pedophile, and into committing sex crimes. He had an online account and membership with a pedophile sex trafficking website, where he was bidding on children.
He was eventually caught all of his criminal activities left on his home computer and in a hidden folder in his home. This business man also traveled a lot to China, Bangkok, Amsterdam.
Learn about the most important cyber-stalking facts.
In general, such pursuits are illegal but it is not always easy to tell without someone suspected of being a cyber stalker has committed a crime. In fact, some of the things cyber stalkers do (bullying, cyber bullying, send gifts, write emails, etc.) are not, per-se, illegal but, if the person informs the individual that he/she does not wish to receive such attention, then, if the individual does not stop, then it may be considered cyber stalking.
An article came out now saying you can hire a hacker to hack someones email and social media pages. For as little as $90 to hack e-mail and around $350 for social media.
1) When setting up social media don't use the same email address you would for your personal email and banking.
2) choose a very strong password, combinations of letters, numbers, upper and lower case, symbols.
3) change your passwords every three months, use your phone as extra security for identification of an account.
4) write your passwords down in a diary for safe keeping, don't keep them on your computer.
5) if you have a camera on your computer screen and you don't use it, put a piece of paper with tape over the camera.
6) don't open emails that you are unsure of and don't know who they are from, they could be malware designed to get into your computer.
7) use security on your computer, paid not free, free does not do the same job. Buy a malware program and once a month do a malware screen of your hard-drive. Malware programs are relative cheap to buy.
8) If you have children using the computer be aware of their movements, what sites they visit, what they are doing on social media. Be vigilant it could just save your child's life.
Cyber-Stalking Facts : Who’s a Victim of Cyber-Stalking?
Anyone can become a victim or cyber-stalking. When the words “bullying” or “cyber bullying” are used, however, it generally refers to the victims being children—more specifically students of private or public schools.
Cyber stalking, however, can touch anyone, including adults. Children, however, are popular victims.
Other people who might be victims of cyber-stalking include:
Disabled persons
The elderly
People who spend a lot of time on the Internet
People who’ve attempted to break up with someone or divorce them
Employers (by fired ex-employees)
People who know or have been introduced to or who have worked with mentally ill individuals (who often form unhealthy or abnormal obsessions or liking for someone else).
The Internet can be a dangerous place for the unwary, particularly children. A person’s ‘digital footprint’ can be as easy to follow as their real footprints.
1) Don't share your children's pictures online on social media, these pictures could end up on pornography sites to lure sexual abusers.
2) Be extremely careful what you share online.
3) When sharing pictures from a phone, your phone can be traced by a stalker right down the house you live in.
4) If your children play online video games be vigilant with who they are playing that game with over the net. Video game sites are used by stalkers, sexual predators to lure children. An assault will pose as a child, making that child trust them while at the same time stalking the child, grooming them.
5) Internet stalking, bullying is a real threat to children. Bullying online has seen young children take their owns lives because of it.
6) Report any online bullying, stalking, keep your own personal record of this also, times dates, take a snapshot of any online conversations with threats.
7) If you have sensitive files from a business, or from your own family, don't keep them on your computer, put them on a portable hard drive for storing.
Abuse and family violence don’t always come in the form of physical threats or violence.
Online behavior by a partner, family member or someone else can also be abusive if it makes you feel scared or unsafe.
Abusive online behavior can include:
- Checking your email or tracking your internet use
- Impersonating you or spreading rumors about you
- Posting embarrassing, fake or intimate videos, photos or comments about you
- Constantly messaging, emailing or texting you in a way that makes you feel intimidated or scared, or
- Harassing you on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or dating/chat/games sites.
If anyone – including a family member, boy/girlfriend or partner – is doing this to you, remember: you don’t have to put up with it.
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Domestic violence is about control, power, and domination. While stalking may be perpetrated by strangers, acquaintances, or current or former intimate partners, stalking is most often committed against women in the domestic violence context. When victims
of domestic violence leave their abusers, abusers often stalk victims in an effort to regain control. Because of this increased risk of “separation violence,” victims fear for their lives and for the safety of their children.
With the growth of the Internet, cyber-stalking crimes are increasing. The Internet has become a useful tool for stalkers.
The veil of anonymity allows the perpetrator to exercise power and control over the victim by threatening the victim directly or posting messages that lead third parties to engage in harassment and threatening behavior toward the victim.Cyber Criminals, Traffickers and Predators are increasingly using technology to identify, pre-asess and victimize.... and they are relying on everything you don’t know or want to see.If you are a woman with children, and you are being stalked, remain aware that you may not be the primary or only target of a sexual predator or trafficker.
What you learn may help to save your life or that of a loved one.
This form of malware is often undetected by common commercial anti-virus software as criminal groups strategically select malware and spyware programs which have been tested against common commercial anti-virus software to ensure they remain undetected.Community members who are not involved in the IT Security or Cyber Security Industry have often not had an opportunity to learn that there is technology readily accessible for purchase or through underground sharing online that helps cyber criminals and predators remotely download malware and spyware into women and children’s home, work and school computers.
Just as the annual flu vaccines must be updated for new, advanced and emerging strains of viruses, so must anti-virus software.
Yet it is critical to realize that just as the annual flu vaccine cannot protect an individual against each new, emerging strain of flu in the world, neither can the finest or most reputable anti-virus software. It is simply a reality that accompanies the rapid rate of advancement in technology and malware engineering.
If you get an email from someone you don't know then simply don't open it...it maybe malware. Recently one of our authors was the victim of cyber criminals, stalker.
You can buy malware software to also search your computer for this, even if you have security on your computer it may not pick up malware. Malware programs work separate to internet security, please consult a professional to find out more.
This is one malware program i tried recommended by a security expert, works brilliantly http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/
This is not expensive- 1year 3 licenses= $24.95 or you can try the free version using the same link and compare what the free and license copy does.
With increasing frequency, spyware is being used by cyber-criminals/predators to remotely access women and children's’ computer webcams.By deeply embedding malware and spyware into a computer’s operating system, predators can identify, pre-asess, video tape, audio record and monitor “potential victims” without the woman or child being aware they are being stalked and filmed in their own home.
Often with every key stroke on the computer being logged with keystroke loggers. Every correspondence…every detail of the woman or child’s life.
NBC’s Today Show featured a critical news segment focusing on how predators are using technology to pre-asess and monitor children and female victims.The NBC’s Today Show clip is eye opening and sheds light on how predators are using malware (malicious software) to gain complete access and control of women and children's computers to stalk them, video tape them through the webcams in their computer and evaluate them as potential opportunities or prey …without the women or children even being aware.This is a form of cyber- crime and "hacking" used by growing circles of predators. Criminals and Predators are increasingly using technology to identify, pre-assess and victimize; and they are relying on everything community members don’t know
or want to see.Link to Today show clip:
Archived Media Reference
Stickley. J. (2013). Jim Stickley demonstrates how criminals can access your webcam. TODAY. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKiVZoEkcoU
CSI Cyber is a new TV series from the makers of CSI. Each episode shows real life scenarios of cyber crimes, which also could happen to every single person. A must watch.
If you are experiencing or are a survivor of high-tech stalking
1. Trust your instincts, they may help save your life or the life of a family member.
2. WARN OTHER WOMEN, your loved ones and friends may also be targeted by the predator or cyber gang.
3.
Talk about safety with law enforcement, advocates and your family.
Sexual predators and abusers will work to isolate you over time, to
separate you from any network or means of support or protection.
4. 74%
of victims of abuse are harassed at work by their abuser. A worsening
tragedy, with often catastrophic outcomes for women and their children, an estimated 24-30% of working women who
are victims of abuse, lose their jobs due to the impact and side
effects of the abuse they have suffered, losing their ability to protect
and care for themselves and their children.
5. DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF TO BECOME ISOLATED.
Sexual predators and abusers want to isolate you. When you are
isolated, you can be re-victimized. When you are isolated emotional,
physical and sexual abuse often escalates.
6. REMAIN AWARE
that predators or abusers are relying on their ability to manipulate
and intimidate you. Cyber - predators rely on deception to control,
exploit and procure victims.
7. Save and document everything.
Talk about safety with law enforcement, advocates and your family. Sexual predators and abusers will work to isolate you over time, to separate you from any network or means of support or protection.
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