{"id":231457,"date":"2016-07-16T11:54:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T11:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=231457"},"modified":"2016-07-16T11:54:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T11:54:07","slug":"pokemon-go-sex-offender-caught-playing-game-with-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=231457","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Go: Sex offender caught playing game with child"},"content":{"rendered":"

A registered child sex offender has been arrested after being caught playing Pokemon Go with a minor near a courthouse in the US state of Indiana.<\/p>\n

Randy Zuick was put on the sex offenders list in April after pleading guilty to molesting a child.<\/p>\n

The terms of his probation specify that he avoid contact with children.<\/p>\n

Zuick was spotted by a probation officer based at the courthouse in Greenfield, who alerted police. He will face a judge later today.<\/p>\n

“The probation officers who knew him were the ones who saw him doing that and so it seems that it was a little bit surprising that he would be so bold to violate his probation terms on a courthouse lawn,” Hancock county prosecutor Brent Eaton told WTHR news.<\/p>\n

Media in Greenfield have reported that the Pokestop on the lawn outside the Hancock County courthouse had become a popular spot for Pokemon players.<\/p>\n

If it is decided the incident violates the terms of his probation, the judge could revoke the arrangements and send Zuick to prison for up to three years.<\/p>\n

‘Deeply troubling’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zuick was arrested on the day that the UK’s NSPCC urged the game’s creators to update it to limit the ways that adults could use it to target children.<\/p>\n

The NSPCC said it was “deeply troubling” that the app’s creators had ignored warnings and child safety concerns.<\/p>\n

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Game maker Niantic and the Pokemon Company said they took player safety seriously and “encouraged” people to be “safe and alert” at all times.<\/p>\n

Computer security firms have also issued warnings to people about the growing interest in the game from cyber thieves.<\/p>\n

RiskIQ said it had now seen more than 215 separate Pokemon Go-themed apps pop up on app stores. So far, it said, only one of the programs was actively malicious but others could do harm in other ways.<\/p>\n

“Approximately half of these unofficial apps are requesting broad permissions from users, risking data exposure via mobile devices,” said Ben Harknett from RiskIQ.<\/p>\n

One fake version found by Eset seems to disappear after being installed but instead lurks in the background on a phone, generating clicks on pornography sites to help an ad-fraud campaign.<\/p>\n

Security firm Symantec said many cyber thieves were creating “trojanised” versions of the Pokemon Go game.<\/p>\n

“If the malicious version of the app is installed, it displays the Pokemon Go start screen, making users assume that nothing is amiss,” said Symantec researcher Candid Wueest in a blogpost. “However, the threat gives the attacker complete access to the phone.”<\/p>\n

Mr Wueest said it had also spotted other criminals running scams purportedly offering people a quick way to get hold of PokeCoins, the game’s virtual currency.<\/p>\n

Many well-established survey scam sites had also rebranded to tempt Pokemon players, he said.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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