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FBI to push for internet wiretapping

...dark" problem, meaning that police can be thwarted when conducting court-authorised eavesdropping because internet companies are not required to build in backdoors in advance... Read more

17 February, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

US media giants sued over 'zombie cookies'

...San Francisco, alleges that the practice of recreating the cookies violates federal eavesdropping and hacking laws. It seeks class-action status. "The collection of data... Read more

29 July, 2010 by Sam Diaz

Drone aims to eavesdrop on Wi-Fi from the sky

The prototype drone can stay in the air for about an hour and sniff Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and mobile phone signals, according to the researchers who showed it off at the Black Hat security conference Read more

5 August, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Palm patches WebOS snooping vulnerability

The company says it has fixed a hole that lets intruders bug calls and access other phone data with the latest release of its WebOS platform Read more

13 August, 2010 by Ben Woods

Palm Pre flaw lets hackers bug calls

A hole in the WebOS device allows phone calls and data to be recorded and sent to a hacker, while a separate flaw in Android could leak passwords and data Read more

12 August, 2010 by Ben Woods
Minimizing Malicious <endeca_term>Eavesdropping</endeca_term> Ability in Wireless Mesh Networks Using SKeMS

Minimizing Malicious Eavesdropping Ability in Wireless Mesh Networks Using SKeMS

...that implements an encryption key assignment and is very effective in reducing eavesdropping attacks, usual threat in WMNs. Compared with previous schemes, SKeMS assigns the... Read more

15 March, 2012
Secret Key Generation and <endeca_term>Eavesdropping</endeca_term> Detection Using Quantum Cryptography

Secret Key Generation and Eavesdropping Detection Using Quantum Cryptography

...quantum cryptography over conventional cryptography are true random secret key generation and eavesdropping detection. Quantum cryptography has been developed which promises more secure communication than... Read more

8 March, 2012
Pilot Contamination for Active <endeca_term>Eavesdropping</endeca_term>

Pilot Contamination for Active Eavesdropping

...eavesdropper can attack the training phase in wireless communication to improve its eavesdropping performance. They derive a new security attack from the pilot contamination phenomenon... Read more

1 March, 2012
Traffic <endeca_term>Eavesdropping</endeca_term> Based Scheme to Deliver Time-Sensitive Data in Sensor Networks

Traffic Eavesdropping Based Scheme to Deliver Time-Sensitive Data in Sensor Networks

...energy of the recipients. Particularly in highly dense sensor networks, overhearing or eavesdropping overheads can constitute a significant fraction of the total energy consumption. Since... Read more

1 September, 2010
<endeca_term>Eavesdropping</endeca_term> on Satellite Telecommunication Systems

Eavesdropping on Satellite Telecommunication Systems

While communication infrastructures rapidly intertwine with the people daily lives, public understanding of underlying... Read more

8 February, 2012
Maintaining Source Privacy Under <endeca_term>Eavesdropping</endeca_term> and Node Compromise Attacks

Maintaining Source Privacy Under Eavesdropping and Node Compromise Attacks

In a sensor network, an important problem is to provide privacy to the event detecting sensor node and integrity to the... Read more

27 March, 2011
<endeca_term>Eavesdropping</endeca_term> on GSM: State-of-Affairs

Eavesdropping on GSM: State-of-Affairs

In the almost 20 years since GSM was deployed several security problems have been found, both in the protocols and in... Read more

1 March, 2011
Optimal Strategies for Countering Dual-Threat Jamming/<endeca_term>Eavesdropping</endeca_term>-Capable Adversaries in MIMO Channels

Optimal Strategies for Countering Dual-Threat Jamming/Eavesdropping-Capable Adversaries in MIMO Channels

This paper investigates transmission strategies in a MIMO wiretap channel with a transmitter, receiver and wire-tapper,... Read more

23 October, 2010
On Pairing Constrained Wireless Devices Based on Secrecy of Auxiliary Channels: The Case of Acoustic <endeca_term>Eavesdropping</endeca_term>

On Pairing Constrained Wireless Devices Based on Secrecy of Auxiliary Channels: The Case of Acoustic Eavesdropping

Secure "Pairing" of wireless devices based on auxiliary or Out-Of-Band (OOB) - audio, visual or tactile - communication... Read more

8 October, 2010
Vibrate-to-Unlock: Mobile Phone Assisted User Authentication to Multiple Personal RFID Tags

Vibrate-to-Unlock: Mobile Phone Assisted User Authentication to Multiple Personal RFID Tags

...valuable information private to their users that can easily be subject to eavesdropping, unauthorized reading, owner tracking, and cloning. RFID tags are also susceptible to... Read more

25 March, 2011

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