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Covert Channels In Internet Protocols: A Survey
White Papers The creation of covert channels in public computer networks can prove an effective means of information hiding and secret communication. With the widespread adoption of the Internet the TCP/IP suite of protocols have become pervasive, and therefore...
[December 5, 2007, 23:00]
Covert Staff Surveillance 'illegal'
News In a draft of its guide on employee monitoring, The use of personal data in employer/employee relationships, the Commission says it is difficult to see how covert monitoring of performance can ever be justified.
[April 9, 2002, 14:28]
Covert Security, A Description
White Papers Covert security enhances current methods and fills in the noticeable gaps. Covert security helps an organization buy time, without tipping off hackers that they are being monitored and understood. Electronic commerce and communication with...
[October 26, 2003, 23:00]
Tool Enables Covert Communications
News The technique essentially creates a covert channel for communications by hiding four characters of data in the header's initial sequence number (ISN) field. Hackers intent on anonymously sending data across the Internet have a new tool.
[August 1, 2003, 13:10]
An Evaluation Framework For The Analysis Of Covert Channels In The TCP/IP Protocol Suite
White Papers Information hiding techniques can be used by criminals and terrorists to communicate over covert channels within the TCP/IP protocol suite and can be used to overcome firewalls and most other forms of network intrusion detection and prevention...
[December 5, 2007, 23:00]
Web Tap: Detecting Covert Web Traffic
White Papers As network security is a growing concern, system administrators lock down their networks by closing inbound ports and only allowing outbound communication over selected protocols such as HTTP. While several tools attempt to analyze inbound traffic...
[April 14, 2006, 0:00]
News Burst: FBI Uses Covert Email Surveillance System
News America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using a super-fast email scanning system dubbed "Carnivore" to covertly trawl through email messages in order to capture suspected criminals, reports the Wall Street Journal Tuesday.
[July 11, 2000, 16:21]
Covert P2P Network Fails To Hide Users
News A Japanese peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network which claimed to keep user identities untraceable has failed to work -- two users in Japan have been arrested. The developer of the P2P software has also had his home searched by police, according...
[December 3, 2003, 14:25]
FBI Uses Covert Email Surveillance System
News America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using a super-fast email scanning system dubbed "Carnivore" to covertly trawl through email messages in order to capture suspected criminals, reports the Wall Street Journal Tuesday.
[July 12, 2000, 10:23]
Covert Napster Clone To Arrive For Christmas
News By Christmas, computer engineers hope to launch a program that could confound those trying to sue the likes of Napster by providing complete anonymity for online music sharers. The project, titled Tropus, is based on Freenet, a peer-to-peer file...
[October 6, 2000, 9:52]
Band Sabotages Napster With Covert Capers
News Quirky Canadian musicians the Barenaked Ladies have launched a devious plan to foil Napster users hoping to snare the first songs from the band's new album, Maroon. The Ladies are renowned for their kooky lyrics and irreverent sense of fun but see...
[September 19, 2000, 15:32]
'Harmless' DNS Data Can Mask Attacks
News The same technology that allows Web surfers to locate and connect to computers on the Internet can be used to create covert communications channels, bypass security measures and store distributed content, a security researcher said on Saturday.
[August 2, 2004, 9:10]
Echelon: The French Fight Back
News A legal battle that threatens to blow the lid on the covert surveillance network Echelon will reach the courts by autumn according to the lawyer leading the assault on America's National Security Agency (NSA).
[June 29, 2000, 11:13]
America Uses Echelon To Spy On Britain, Say Reports
News New CIA documents reveal how the United States' intelligence services use covert techniques to monitor European business communications, including Britain's, to give American companies economic advantages.
[July 3, 2000, 10:13]
MI5 Document Leaked To US Web Site, Gov't Acts
News The government is trying to have what is believed to be a top secret MI5 document, removed from the Internet over fears it could endanger the lives of covert field operatives, according to a US ISP. The document is believed to reveal the identities...
[April 25, 2000, 9:28]
The Day Ahead: CFO Search Hover Over Red Hat Earnings
News Covert, who was at Red Hat all of five months, was known as an operational guy. Hambrecht, downgraded Red Hat to "market neutral" shortly after Covert resigned. With Covert off to resurrect SGI, Walter McCormick, head of corporate development, now...
[September 13, 2000, 11:19]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Professional radio direction finding is mostly covert business by covert people, so you won't find GCHQ's equipment neatly documented on the Web. Monday 7/7/2003Today is a recovery day. I spent Sunday scrambling through holly thickets, sinking calf...
[July 11, 2003, 15:06]
Staff Monitoring Must Be Transparent
News In reality, there are few circumstances in which covert monitoring is justified. Thomas believes, in line with the code, that covert surveillance -- defined as concealed and unannounced -- is only justified by threats of serious crime, and not...
[June 11, 2003, 10:49]
Home Office Commits Gaffe Over Entrapment
News British legal experts agree the Home Office is trying to draw an impossible line between covert tactics and entrapment. In the case 28-year-old Lockley contacted a paedophile Web site set up during a covert "sting" operation by US police saying he...
[February 6, 2001, 14:05]
Hackers Send Sendmail A Message
News This copy included a non-Sendmail test component that, when compiled, started a program that opens a covert channel to another server on the Internet. That server has since been configured to block the covert connection, according to messages...
[October 10, 2002, 7:50]
