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Researchers crack Galileo signal codes
News The signal transmitted from GIOVE-A (Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element-A) was broken after researchers intercepted the signals using a roof-mounted hemispherical patch antenna and a digital storage receiver.
[July 13, 2006, 16:35]
Modern PCs to challenge WWII codebreaker
News In an event called the "Cipher Challenge", which is running on Thursday and Friday, the Colossus has to decode radio communications intercepted from Germany. The signals are being intercepted by stacks of people, and the challenge is to break the...
[November 15, 2007, 14:09]
Email monitoring may contravene European laws
News The case involved a public-sector employee, who won €3,000 in damages and €6,000 in court costs and expenses, after her communications were intercepted by her employer, Carmarthenshire College, based in South Wales.
[April 11, 2007, 17:35]
BT Phorm trial leak rekindles row
News The documents show BT customers were not made aware of the tests, and that their web traffic was being intercepted, according to Cambridge University computing expert Richard Clayton, who called for BT to be prosecuted.
[June 6, 2008, 18:01]
Hackers could soon hold the remote control to your car
News Oceanus is developing public key encryption measures designed to prevent radio signals from being intercepted or mimicked by an unauthorised third party. An Oceanus spokesman says, "Modem traffic can potentially be intercepted by unknown third...
[October 25, 1999, 16:50]
Relaxed holiday attitudes help BadTrans worm
News By Saturday, Goostree said, McAfee.com had intercepted several hundred copies of the worm. Data provided online by email screening service UK-based MessageLabs showed the BadTrans virus accelerating quickly, with more than 700 infected email...
[November 27, 2001, 9:07]
UN snooping: the technology of surveillance
News These can be carried on radio or on copper or fibre cables: with few exceptions, wireless signals can be best intercepted remotely while cables need a physical tap. To us, a mobile phone is an essential social and business tool: to the state...
[February 27, 2004, 13:35]
Deadlier Klez worm on the prowl
News Based on how many instances of each worm and virus the company has intercepted in the past 24 hours, UK-headquartered mail service provider MessageLabs ranks Klez.e fourth on its top 10 list, behind Sircam, BadTrans and Magistr -- old worms that...
[February 12, 2002, 10:01]
Bringing Colossus back to life
News The rebuilt Colossus was last week put to work on intercepted radio messages transmitted by radio amateurs in Paderborn, Germany, which had been scrambled by a machine used by the German high command in wartime.
[November 19, 2007, 14:10]
Internet pioneer charged under RIP Act
News It is understood that the charges against him relate to allegations that he secretly intercepted emails sent to John Porter from his mother, Tesco heiress and disgraced former politician Dame Shirley Porter.
[February 13, 2004, 16:35]
BT conducted?
Talkback they (both BT and the Phorm PR teams)have indeed said they had started this latest trial, and that it would run for several weeks (6+ i beleave) so it is runnin right now if you beleave them.however, as of today, a full 16 days later,NOT ONE...
[October 16, 2008, 14:46]
European Parliament urges open source protection against Echelon
News Furthermore, an intelligence system which intercepted all communications without any guarantee of proportionality would not be compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (EHCR), Schmid says in his report, which calls for all member...
[May 24, 2001, 20:20]
Europe stumbles on Echelon spy network
News In the UK the story was picked up by The Daily Telegraph, which ran an article by Davies on Wright's paper, and conveyed to the British public the notion that their telephone, email and wireless communications were being routinely intercepted and...
[March 28, 2002, 17:40]
EC expects legal issues around Phorm to be resolved
News Privacy campaigners and parliamentarians have claimed these initial trials were illegal, as customers were not asked for consent before their traffic was intercepted. He said that to be compliant with the e-Privacy Directive, all parties, including...
[March 6, 2009, 15:31]
Extent of government eavesdropping revealed
News The report reveals 24 interception errors were reported in the last nine months of 2006, where data from the wrong person was intercepted. The commissioner did not, however, give his backing to intercepted communications being used as evidence in...
[January 31, 2008, 11:14]
RIPA demands push up ISP costs
News To ensure the intercepted communication and data can be correlated; To ensure any protection applied to the intercepted communication can be removed; From 1st August, ISPs and telcos will be obliged to maintain certain minimum levels of...
[July 9, 2002, 15:41]
Email interception law faces more delays
News The main issues relate to how the data should be intercepted, and how it should be stored. This means a mechanism for both the police and the data subject (which under the Data Protection Act would be anyone in the UK who had their data intercepted...
[March 1, 2002, 14:48]
Lovgate worm's got a hold on PCs
News Email service provider MessageLabs intercepted nearly 4,000 emails containing the malicious program in the first 12 hours of its spread. Two other viruses, Sobig and Yaha, are currently in the No.and No.slots on MessageLabs' list of most prevalent...
[February 25, 2003, 9:09]
Recognising Bletchley Park's unsung heroines
News Five-channel tape like this stored the intercepted messages. When a message was intercepted by one of the outposts, it was sent by motorcycle courier or teleprinter to Bletchley Park to be collated with all the other intelligence.
[March 12, 2008, 11:08]
Researchers hack Microsoft wireless keyboards
News While this means a user is unlikely to find themselves typing on a neighbour's computer, it also allows intercepted signals to be hacked because each unique identifier can be used as a key. It takes between 30 and 50 intercepted keystrokes to break...
[December 5, 2007, 11:43]
