Kevin's Security Scrapbook
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Town Clerk Allegedly Testifies to Electronic Eavesdropping

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MI - Augusta Township Clerk Kathy Giszczak allegedly testified in a deposition that she electronically eavesdropped on a conversation betwe...

Albanian Ex-Spy Chief Disappears

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UK - Scotland Yard today issued a nationwide appeal to track down a former Albanian spy chief who is on the run after failing to attend an ...

Yet Another 'News of the World' Phone Hacking Arrest

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UK - British police said Wednesday they have arrested another suspect in their investigation of phone hacking by the News of the World tablo...

Twitter - The Stool Pigeon

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If you were thinking that tweet you just sent would soon disappear into the ether, you couldn't be more wrong.   It will soon be store...

Dorkly Bits: Spy Hunter Pranksters

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Never trust the guy in the van. ( stupid spy video game parody )
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

"All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S." Wins Reconstruct Shreds Contest

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via gizmag.com .. . At the end of October, DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) launched its Shredder Challenge contest. Th...

Security Director Alert: USB Trouble Sticks

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• Memory sticks given as gifts or promotional items may contain spy software (possibly unbeknownst to the giver). • “Found on the ground”...
Friday, December 2, 2011

Man Allegedly Tracked Woman with Smart Phone Spyware

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NY - Town of Crawford police have charged a Middletown man with multiple felonies after they said he installed spyware on a Pine Bush woman...
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Phone Bugging and Surveillance by Governments Exposed

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Whistleblowing Web site Wikileaks released 287 files it claims detail phone bugging and surveillance of whole populations by governments i...

Eavesdropping on voicemails: "perfectly acceptable tool"

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UK - A former News of the World journalist made a rare, robust defense of phone hacking, telling Britain's media ethics inquiry that e...

A Computer Screen Only a Spy Can See - Make One!

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Finally you can do something with that old LCD monitor you have in the garage. You can turn it into a privacy monitor! It looks all white to...

Keystroke-sniffing software found embedded in Nokia, Android, and RIM devices

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A piece of keystroke-sniffing software called Carrier IQ has been embedded so deeply in millions of Nokia, Android, and RIM devices that i...

Want a Job as a Spy? Start with a Code Cracking Quiz! (UPDATED)

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UK - No longer content with simply approaching the brightest from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, intelligence agency GCHQ has lau...
Monday, November 28, 2011

7 Things You Should Know About Online Passwords

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Click to enlarge. 1. You need different passwords for each site. 2. Longer passwords are harder to hack. 3. You shouldn’t use a wor...

Tips for Visiting a Closed Society with Your Electronics

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Ken Lieberthal of the Brookings Institution does a lot of work in China. Visiting about 10 times a year... Like a lot of us these days, Li...
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