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Google fixes Android Wi-Fi snooping issue

...Contacts servers over HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure) so that someone snooping on an unprotected wireless network will not be able to grab authentication... Read more

19 May, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Government restricts 'snooping' surveillance

...to limit the powers of councils to monitor people for petty transgressions.Snooping in bins is "not necessary for public safety", according to home secretary... Read more

11 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Palm patches WebOS snooping vulnerability

...Palm has fixed the reported snooping vulnerability that allows a specially-crafted vCard to record and transmit conversations... Read more

13 August, 2010 by Ben Woods

Government to curb council 'snooping' powers

...the grounds that the misuse of Ripa infringed civil liberties. "Highly intrusive snooping powers belong properly to law enforcement officials to investigate serious crime and... Read more

5 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Email and web snooping plans draw back-bench fire

The government's plans to intercept everyone in the UK's phone, text, email and web-surfing records have drawn fresh... Read more

2 April, 2012

Ripa changes call for consent before snooping

The Home Office has proposed interception law changes that would require businesses to get consent from consumers in situations such as BT's secret Phorm trials and Google's collection of Wi-Fi data Read more

20 April, 2011 by David Meyer
Zooming Into Radio Events by Bus <endeca_term>Snooping</endeca_term>

Zooming Into Radio Events by Bus Snooping

In this paper, the authors advocate the use of bus snooping to trace radio events. Highly precise and un-intrusive, the technique leads... Read more

13 March, 2012
Virtual <endeca_term>Snooping</endeca_term>: Filtering Snoops in Virtualized Multi-Cores

Virtual Snooping: Filtering Snoops in Virtualized Multi-Cores

...designs, it has been difficult to scale them for more cores, as snooping protocols require high network bandwidth and power consumption for snooping all the... Read more

13 December, 2010

Bosses warned of social media snooping risks

Why using social media to vet your new recruits might not be a great idea... Read more

4 September, 2011 by Steve Ranger
Detecting Traffic <endeca_term>Snooping</endeca_term> in Anonymity Networks Using Decoys

Detecting Traffic Snooping in Anonymity Networks Using Decoys

Anonymous communication networks like Tor partially protect the confidentiality of their users' traffic by encrypting... Read more

3 February, 2011

Android phones vulnerable to attack, researchers say

...on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Report: Android phones vulnerable to snooping attack on CNET News. Get the latest technology news and analysis, blogs... Read more

18 May, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Facebook accounts get HTTPS encryption option

...full-session HTTPS feature, which will encrypt users' accounts and guard against snooping Read more

27 January, 2011 by Elinor Mills

ISP brands UK internet spying plans 'pointless'

...the government's £2bn scheme would fail to deliver on its snooping goals as cybercriminals will simply find ways around being tracked. "It is... Read more

17 May, 2012
Fluke OptiView XG Network Analysis Tablet

Fluke OptiView XG Network Analysis Tablet

...discovering as much information as it can using a combination of network snooping and port scanning. For the size of network on which it's... Read more

3 January, 2012 by Jonathan Bennett
How IPv6 will work as IPv4 wanes

How IPv6 will work as IPv4 wanes

...to the bogus router. One solution to this problem is rogue RA 'snooping' in switches, similar to DHCP snooping for rogue DHCPv4 servers, but vendors... Read more

2 February, 2011 by Tim Chown

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