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Private Detective Respond With Parental PC and Mobile Phone Monitoring Services in Light of BBC News Report: Kids Using Coding Skills to Hack Friends on Games

(PRWEB UK) 10 February 2013

According to the BBC News report, children as young as 11 years old are writing malicious computer code to hack gaming sites and social networking accounts. More schools are educating children to programme, rather than to just use a computer, as part of their education to gain literacy, which is fundamental to understanding society. However, some child programmers are using this knowledge to write basic malware programmes to hack accounts on gaming sites and social networks.

The report goes on to say that in one case researchers were able to reverse-engineer amateur code and discovered that the identity of the culprit was an 11 year old child in Canada. Researchers have found that most of the malware was written in basic coding language, such as VB and C# and usually contained errors that professional hackers were unlikely to make. Some malware was trying to steal log-in details and other data then send it to an email address.

Private Detectives offer parental PC and mobile phone monitoring services that gives parents or carers the ability to see exactly what activities have been carried out on the child's PC or Phone. If the child has been up to no good, using his new found skills to hack into accounts on gaming and social networking sites the monitoring service will record it for the parents to see. This type of technology has always proved to be highly successful when monitoring children to help to keep them safe and within the law online.

Spokesperson, Mary Rogers from Private Detectives said: This is a serious crime that children do not seem to comprehend the severity of. As the skills of children have improved so has the need to educate them in the rights and wrongs of writing software.

Mary Rogers went on to say: "In my professional opinion, monitoring children online can prevent most problems from happening and any that do happen can be caught in time to stop any serious crimes or mister miners from becoming out of hand. We at Private Detective have brought peace of mind to many worried parents and carers with Parental PC and Mobile Phone services."

Private Detectives located in Manchester along with their sister company Private Detectives located in London are a team of highly trained professional and discreet private investigators and detectives with over 35 years experience in the industry. Their understanding and approachable team of male and female detectives are available 24/7 to conduct matrimonial, corporate and private investigations.

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