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FBI seeks power to eavesdrop on Net
News When designing systems and configuring software and hardware, they have to preserve the government's ability to eavesdrop. Earlier this year, VeriSign, Cisco and other members of an industry consortium announced a set of products that would permit...
[July 29, 2003, 14:21]
Ruling bars police from in-car computer snooping
News The FBI and other police agencies may not eavesdrop on conversations inside automobiles equipped with OnStar or similar dashboard computing systems, a federal appeals court ruled. After learning that the unnamed system could be remotely activated...
[November 20, 2003, 9:20]
WLANs need VPNs - but only for the next six months
News Users have been concerned for some time about security on WLANs, as hackers near a WLAN can log in to base stations or eavesdrop on data traffic. The IEEE's Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) standard uses the RC4 encryption, but the way WEP selects...
[December 18, 2001, 16:47]
UN snooping: the technology of surveillance
News A US court has decided that the FBI was wrong to eavesdrop on conversations inside a car via its on-board computer - but not out of concern for privacy FBI seeks power to eavesdrop on Net And their job has never been easier.
[February 27, 2004, 13:35]
BlackBerry PhoneSnoop app can spy on calls
News The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, US-Cert, warned BlackBerry users on Tuesday about a new program called PhoneSnoop that allows someone to remotely eavesdrop on phone conversations. The PhoneSnoop application must be installed on the phone...
[October 28, 2009, 7:21]
Think Your Skype Call is Secure? Read This!
Blog Comment Looks like it was designed so officials could eavesdrop on conservations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior ministry claims...
[July 26, 2008, 5:55]
Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Multiparty Applications in the Presence of Clock Drifts
White Papers Considering adversaries that can eavesdrop and launch directed DoS attacks to the applications' open ports, solutions based on pseudo-random port-hopping have been suggested. A weak point in network-based applications is that they commonly open...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
A Brief Guide to Securing Wireless Networks: Closing the Back Door in APA Style
White Papers Unfortunately, wireless networks may also act as an open door in the network security perimeter, allowing nearby attackers to eavesdrop on confidential communications, break into the wired network, or cause other serious problems.
[May 15, 2008, 1:01]
A Man-in-the-Middle Attack on UMTS
White Papers As a result, an intruder can eavesdrop on all mobile-station-initiated traffic. This paper presents a man-in-the-middle attack on the Universal Mobile Telecommunication Standard (UMTS), one of the newly emerging 3G mobile technologies.
[July 19, 2005, 6:00]
Dynamic Pharming Attacks and Locked Same-Origin Policies for Web Browsers
White Papers Dynamic pharming enables the adversary to eavesdrop on sensitive content, forge transactions, sniff secondary passwords, etc. This paper describes a new attack against web authentication, which the paper calls dynamic pharming.
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Windows 2000 RDP Protocol Security Vulnerability Patch
Downloads An attacker who can ""eavesdrop on"" and record an RDP session might be able to conduct a straightforward cryptanalytic attack against the checksums and to recover the session traffic. This patch eliminates two vulnerabilities affecting the...
[October 31, 2002, 8:43]
Symantec warns users over Bluetooth security
News There are many other methods that [launch] a variety of denial-of-service attacks, and even some that could allow an attack to eavesdrop on private conversations," Ooi Szu-Khiam, senior security consultant at Symantec Singapore, said in an email...
[September 21, 2007, 9:52]
A Cryptanalysis of the High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection System
White Papers With the master secret, an attacker can eavesdrop on communications between any two devices and can spoof any device, both in real time. This paper describes a weakness in the High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) scheme which may lead...
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
News Burst: Employers can read your email from today
News From Tuesday, new regulations give employers the power to eavesdrop on the email communications of their staff, a legal shift that has been welcomed by businesses but condemned as a breach of the right to privacy by civil liberty groups.
[October 24, 2000, 9:03]
Swiss Government tests VoIP wiretap software
News The Swiss Government has been testing surveillance software that could enable it to eavesdrop on voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications. According to Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung, police and intelligence services could could infect...
[October 11, 2006, 12:25]
Employers can read your email from today
News From Tuesday, new regulations give employers the power to eavesdrop on the email communications of their staff, a legal shift that has been welcomed by businesses, but condemned as a breach of the right to privacy by civil liberty groups.
[October 24, 2000, 11:45]
Dutch government acknowledges Echelon spy network
News The Dutch government has publicly acknowledged the existence of the covert satellite surveillance network used by Britain, the US and other allied nations to eavesdrop on international phone calls, emails and faxes, code-named Echelon.
[January 24, 2001, 16:37]
Jericho Forum voices concerns over VoIP security
News A leading member of the Jericho Forum has criticised the security of voice-over-IP technology after security researchers revealed that it was possible to eavesdrop on VoIP conversations. An eavesdropping vulnerability was revealed on the popular...
[August 29, 2007, 14:31]
New surveillance bill comes under fire
News The bill is designed to regulate the measures that police and security agencies in Britain are legally entitled to employ in order to eavesdrop on members of the public. The government Thursday published the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP...
[February 10, 2000, 16:27]
France attacks Britain over Echelon
News Echelon is the codename for a surveillance network built by the UK and US at the onset of the Cold War in order to eavesdrop on international satellite communications. A French parliamentary enquiry has harshly criticised Britain for its...
[October 13, 2000, 17:05]
