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El Paso police officer accused of attempted visual recording in women’s locker room

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EL PASO, Texas (El Paso Matters) — An El Paso police officer is facing felony charges for the second time in two years, with the latest charge alleging he was involved in an attempted visual recording in the women’s locker room at the police Westside Regional Command Center.

Gilberto Hilario Silva, 28, is charged with one count each of attempted invasive visual recording, indecency with a child by exposure, breach of computer security and unauthorized use or release of criminal information. The first two charges are felonies; the other two are misdemeanors or felonies, depending on circumstances.

Silva was arrested Thursday and released on bonds totaling $50,000 the same day. He did not respond to requests for comment from El Paso Matters to his phone or email address.

El Paso Matters began inquiring about Silva’s charges on Thursday, but police did not respond to requests for information. Instead, they issued a vague news release Friday evening.

The news release said that on May 1, the police Special Investigations Unit “investigated an allegation of Invasive Visual Recording that occurred in the female locker room of the Westside Regional Command Center.” 

No other details were provided. Police did not respond to questions about what led to charges of indecency with a child, breach of computer security and unauthorized use or release of criminal information.

At the time the investigation began, Silva was awaiting trial on a felony charge of assault of a pregnant person, court records show. Police did not respond to questions about whether he was on active duty and working at the regional command at the time.

The news release said he is currently on administrative leave, but police didn’t respond to questions about when the leave began. He has been an officer three years, according to the news release.

Silva was charged on March 10, 2021, with assault on a pregnant person. The felony charge was dismissed on May 31, 2022, according to court records. That was 30 days after police began the investigation into the invasive recording at the Westside Regional Command.

An indictment accused Silva of grabbing and pushing a woman he knew…

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WhatsApp’s cloned app spying on Indians via recording video, audio

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New Delhi: India is among the countries with highest number of Android trojan detections and a cloned, third-party unofficial version of WhatsApp is leading in spying on people’s chats in the country, a new report has warned.

Behind a large portion of Android spyware detection in the past four months was ‘GB WhatsApp’ — a popular but cloned third-party version of WhatsApp, according to the report by cyber-security firm ESET.

Such malicious apps have a wide range of spying capabilities, including recording audio and video.

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“The cloned app is not available on Google Play and, therefore, there are no security checks in place compared with the legitimate WhatsApp, and versions available on various download websites are riddled with malware,” said the report.

India (35 per cent) was also ranked second after China (53 per cent) as the geolocation for bots making up the largest internet of things (IoT) botnet called ‘Mozi’ from May to August 2022.

The IoT botnet ‘Mozi’ saw the number of bots drop by 23 per cdnt from 500,000 compromised devices to 383,000 in May-August.

However, China and India continued to have the highest number of IoT bots geolocated inside the respective countries.

“These statistics confirm the assumption that the ‘Mozi’ botnet is on autopilot, running without human supervision since its reputed author was arrested in 2021,” said the report.

Even with declining numbers, Russian IP addresses continued to be responsible for the largest portion of remote desktop protocol (RDP) attacks.

“Russia was also the country that was most targeted by ransomware, with some of the attacks being politically or ideologically motivated by the war,” said Roman Kovac, Chief Research Officer at ESET.

The report also examined threats mostly impacting home users.

“In terms of threats directly affecting virtual and physical currencies, a web skimmer known as Magecart remains the leading threat going after online shoppers’ credit card details,” said Kovac.

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Kasa Spot 24/7 Recording (KC400) Review

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The latest addition to TP-Link’s family of smart home devices, the $44.99 Kasa Spot 24/7 Recording (KC400) camera offers a nice assortment of features including motion and sound detection, person detection, and voice control, all for less than $50. It’s also the most affordable indoor security camera we’ve reviewed that offers 2K footage. It delivered excellent day and night video quality in our tests and is easy to install, making it a good choice if you already own other Kasa devices. If you don’t, you can get more interoperability options as well as pan and tilt functionality with our Editors’ Choice winner, the $51.99 Eufy Indoor Cam 2K Pan & Tilt.

A High-Def Camera in an Unassuming Design

The KC400’s enclosure sports a white finish and has a black camera face. It measures 2.2 by 2.2 by 1.0 inches (HWD) and sits atop a base and mounting arm that provides tilt and swivel adjustments and brings the total height to 3.5 inches. The base can be used as a desktop stand, or it can be attached to a wall using the included mounting hardware. There’s a mini USB power port on the back, along with a speaker, a reset button, and a microSD card slot on the right side. You can store recorded video locally using the card slot, but you’ll have to supply your own media. TP-Link includes a 10-foot USB charging cable, an AC adapter, a quick start guide, and the above-mentioned mounting hardware.

The camera captures 2K (2,560-by-1,440-pixel) video at 15fps, has a 106-degree field of view, and uses five infrared LEDs for black-and-white night vision with a range of up to 30 feet. It has an embedded microphone for two-way audio and a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi radio for connecting to your home network and to the Kasa mobile app. A tiny LED indicator flashes red when the camera is trying to connect to Wi-Fi, flashes green when it’s connected to Wi-Fi, glows solid green when the camera is connected to the cloud, and flashes green and amber during setup.

Kasa Spot 24/7 Recording (KC400)

The KC400 will send push alerts when motion or sound is detected, record the event, and tell you if the motion is caused by a person. As mentioned, you can store the recordings locally on a microSD card, or you can subscribe to a Kasa Care plan and store them in…

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Screen recording, Smart Lock and Android’s other best hidden features

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Your Android phone has a treasure trove of hidden features. 


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Part of the appeal of using an Android phone is the wide variety of hardware and software options. For instance, the experience you get from a Google Pixel phone is very different from what a Galaxy S21 offers, and then you add OnePlus into the mix and the experience diverges even more. That said, the core Android experience remains nearly the same. All three manufacturers use Android, sharing the same features — some of which are hidden. 

And now that Google has released the first developer beta of Android 12 (which you can install if you like living on the edge), the staple Android features are only getting better, and there are sure to be more hidden features. 

Take screen recording as an example. It’s a feature that you may not even realize Google added with the rollout of Android 11, but it’s there, just waiting to help you show off your gaming skills. Also, the ability to use two apps at the same time is not only something iPhone users can only dream about but it’s also downright useful and built into your Android phone (this feature isn’t new, at least for Pixel phones) — you just have to know where to look. One of my favorite hidden features is called Smart Lock, a tool that keeps my phone unlocked when I’m at home, then reverts back to requiring my fingerprint or PIN code when I leave. It’s convenient and it allows me to keep my phone secure when I’m not at home. 

Keep in mind, the features below may not look or work exactly the same on every phone, and that’s because different Android device manufacturers like to use unique interfaces. My…

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