Kevin's Security Scrapbook
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Chevron Wins Suit Fighting $9.5 Billion Ecuador Judgment - The Spy Pen Helped

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Back in 2009, I posted this: Spy Pen May Kill $27 Billion Lawsuit . A little later: The Chevron Secret Recordings Case Continues . Chevron c...
Monday, March 3, 2014

G-Men Chase Sprint'er Over Inflated Wiretap Billing

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Sprint Corp. overcharged the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration and other law-enforcement agencies by more...

Florida Cops’ Secret Weapon: Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking

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Police in Florida have offered a startling excuse for having used a controversial “stingray” cell phone tracking gadget 200 times without ev...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

Business Espionage: Rival CEO Posed as Exec to Get Secrets

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The CEO of a sporting goods chain who once appeared on the TV show "Undercover Boss" pretended to be an executive from a rival com...

If Your are Calling the FBI or Secret Service, ...

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...don't get the phone number from a Google Maps listing. Don't trust Google Maps, warns former map-jacker after he was ironically...

Anonymous Instant Messaging - Coming Soon

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The Tor Foundation is moving forward with a plan to provide its own instant messaging service. Called the Tor Instant Messaging Bundle , the...

How the Avaya Phone on Your Desk Can Be Turned Into A Bug

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Security researchers have designed a stealthy eavesdropping attack that sounds like it's straight out of a James Bond movie. It starts w...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

"Black" Smartphones Come of Age

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The launch of not one, but two, "Black phones"  this past week may lead people to think that secure cell phones are a hot new ite...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Eavesdropping News of the Day

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IL - Warren Township High School board member Liz Biondi claimed at a meeting this week that "someone in the district" has wiretap...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Boeing to Launch its Own Black Phone

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The world's biggest aerospace company is jumping into the business of making high-security smartphones. Boeing Co. filed plans this ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

New Tiny Ultrasound Camera Sees What's in Your Heart ...really

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Developed by a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the device consists of a 1.5-mm-wide disc-shaped head, from which trails 13 tiny...

Off-Hook Telecoms Call for Attorneys' Fees - Disconnected

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AT&T, Verizon and other telecoms cannot recover attorneys' fees after ducking claims that they overcharged for electronic surveillan...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Wiretapping Case Costs South Bend, IN almost $1 Million... so far

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Summary : Former police communications director Karen DePaepe was fired in 2012 in the wake of an investigation into whether she and Chief ...

Brazil, Europe Plan Undersea Cable to Skirt Spying

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Brazil and the European Union agreed on Monday to lay an undersea communications cable from Lisbon to Fortaleza to reduce Brazil’s relianc...

Computer Allegedly Bugged by Ethiopians

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A Maryland man is suing the Ethiopian government after it was discovered that it infected his computer with spyware, wiretapped his calls ma...
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