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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Thief: The Dark Project Demo
Downloads Eavesdrop on your foes as they coordinate their manhunt in real-time digital audio. This game transports you to a world of stealth, subterfuge, and mystery. Stalk through the silent corridors of a sleeping city and ambush its unsuspecting guards.
[February 17, 1999, 0:38]
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]
VoIP Eavesdropping Rules Face Mounting Challenge
News Telecommunications firms, non-profit organisations and educators are asking the US Court of Appeals in Washington DC to overturn the controversial rules, which dramatically extend the sweep of an 11-year-old surveillance law designed to guarantee...
[October 25, 2005, 9:05]
SMS Trojan Threat Demonstrated?
Blog It's a trojan called RexSpy and it's an SMS that looks like a security update from your operator, only what it does is let the sender eavesdrop on your conversations, check your SMSs etc. An interesting piece here regarding one of those proof-of...
[November 27, 2006, 9:02]
US Report: Email Archives May Be Vulnerable
News I'm fairly certain that foreign governments will have built similar machines to this, and are using them to eavesdrop on conversations in the U.S.said Paul Kocher, a member of the team who helped build the machine for the Electronic Frontier...
[July 21, 1998, 6:04]
One In Five Employers Snoop On Staff Email
News The new Lawful Business Practices Regulations -- part of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act -- that came into force in October, granted employers the power to eavesdrop on the private emails of their staff without their consent...
[January 17, 2001, 12:10]
