A Tredyffrin Township man has been accused of cyber spying on his estranged wife.
Jay Anthony Ciccarone, 39, was charged Monday night with unlawful use of a computer and related offenses. He allegedly installed “Web Watcher,” a spyware package, on the woman’s computer, Tredyffrin Township police said.
“As far as I’m concerned, he was really behaving like a stalker,” Sgt. John R. Bailey said. “He violated her trust and her privacy. . . . It seemed like a big chess game to him.”
Police said the investigation began a year ago when the woman, who was in the midst of divorce proceedings with Ciccarone, contacted police because Ciccarone appeared to be monitoring her daily activities.
A forensic examination of the woman’s computer revealed the presence of the spying program, which “works by recording all manner of activity on the computer, including keystroke logging, capturing e-mail and Internet activity,” the criminal complaint said.
The complaint said the program “is designed to be completely ‘stealthed,’ meaning it is automatically hidden from everyone except the people authorized to see it.”
This month, investigators received confirmation from Awareness Technologies, a California company that sells the program, that the software had been purchased by Ciccarone, the complaint said.
Ciccarone, who previously worked in sales for Philly.com, was arraigned Monday night in District Court and released after posting $75,000 cash bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Friday.
Ciccarone filed for divorce in April 2010, a proceeding that has not yet been finalized, according to court records.
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BEIRUT: An Egyptian man living in Lebanon has confessed to spying for Israel after he and his Lebanese wife were arrested over the weekend.
The couple, who have lived in Hasbaya, southeast Lebanon for 20 years according to As-Safir newspaper, had been under surveillance for some time, a statement from the Internal Security Forces said Monday.
The man, identified by As-Safir as Ibrahim S., confessed to working with Israeli intelligence since 1999, according to the ISF statement, and said he had entered Israel three times.
He also confessed that his wife knew he had been working with Israeli intelligence.
Authorities discovered what they said were spying and communication devices, including a cellphone with an Israeli SIM card inside Ibrahim’s house.
As-Safir reported Monday that Ibrahim has worked at several laundries in Hasbaya, Beirut and border towns.
They said Ibrahim crossed into Israel during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and worked there over a substantial period of time.
Investigations are ongoing.
By MONA NAIR
6 News Reporter
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