Major League Baseball fans might get to eavesdrop on players and managers arguing calls this season as Fox and ESPN put microphones on umpires during telecasts for the first time. (more)
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
VoIP Mixes SIP with Security
Switzerland - Telecommunications provider Amitelo today launches a new release of its softphone AmiVois that because of excellent features is superior to its competitors. AmiVois comes with a new kind of encryption that makes wiretapping virtually impossible. (more)
Double Czech for Wiretaps
Police have thus recorded the calls between Frantisek Kinsky and his lawyer, which are considered inviolable.
A Czech court approved the wiretapping. Justice Minister Jiri Pospisil (Civic Democrats, ODS) said that this was in accordance with law. (more)
...meanwhile, back at the ranch...
Tomas Almer, head of the Czech police unit in charge of wiretapping, will not be prosecuted over sending the parliament a secret report saying that police wiretapped some politicians and journalists. (more)
A Czech court approved the wiretapping. Justice Minister Jiri Pospisil (Civic Democrats, ODS) said that this was in accordance with law. (more)
...meanwhile, back at the ranch...
Tomas Almer, head of the Czech police unit in charge of wiretapping, will not be prosecuted over sending the parliament a secret report saying that police wiretapped some politicians and journalists. (more)
Spy Agency Resorts to Wiretapping More Often
S. Korea - The National Intelligence Service (NIS), the country’s spy agency, is wiretapping more and more fixed-line phones and tracking the e-mail messages of Koreans.The Ministry of Information and Communication on Tuesday said the NIS traced a total of 8,440 phones or messages last year, up 4.4 percent from 8,082 in 2005. (more)
Equipment Spy Finds Nike's Sumo2 Driver Illegal
Nike calls it a "voluntary product return", ...
How could this happen in the dog eat dog world of golf equipment?
They were ratted out by a competitor.
And how would they gain by this bit of corporate espionage?
For whatever reason, even before this golf manufacturing "spy" committed corporate espionage, Nike’s product hasn’t been getting the same respect or publicity as Callaway. Even Tiger Woods doesn't have the new Sumo2 in his bag. How bad is it when your top spokesplayer snubs your product? (more)
How could this happen in the dog eat dog world of golf equipment?
They were ratted out by a competitor.
And how would they gain by this bit of corporate espionage?
For whatever reason, even before this golf manufacturing "spy" committed corporate espionage, Nike’s product hasn’t been getting the same respect or publicity as Callaway. Even Tiger Woods doesn't have the new Sumo2 in his bag. How bad is it when your top spokesplayer snubs your product? (more)
Spy Agency Posts Windows, OS X Security Guides
Who should know more about security than the National Security Agency? (Hey, it's their middle name!) No one, presumably. Which is why you might want to check out a series of security configuration guides the NSA has posted for Windows XP, 2000, Mac OS X, and Sun Solaris. (more)
Have Tap, Will Travel
Romanian spy chief quits after admitting he misinformed parliament over phone tapping operations.
Claudiu Saftoiu, appointed last September by (Romanian President) Basescu, resigned after earlier telling a parliamentary committee that phone tapping of people suspected of violating national security had been conducted with the approval of the general prosecutor's office.
Later, in a letter, Saftoiu apologised, accepting that such operations could be carried out only with the authorisation of a judge.
"His move is an act of honour. He told us something and later took it back," Crin Antonescu, member of a parliamentary commission investigating opposition allegations of unconstitutional behaviour by Basescu, told Reuters.
Claudiu Saftoiu, appointed last September by (Romanian President) Basescu, resigned after earlier telling a parliamentary committee that phone tapping of people suspected of violating national security had been conducted with the approval of the general prosecutor's office.
Later, in a letter, Saftoiu apologised, accepting that such operations could be carried out only with the authorisation of a judge.
"His move is an act of honour. He told us something and later took it back," Crin Antonescu, member of a parliamentary commission investigating opposition allegations of unconstitutional behaviour by Basescu, told Reuters.
"Indiana wants me, Lord I can't call back there..."
IN - Cell phones and other electronic devices have opened new avenues for criminals, but these same technology advances have left Indiana police investigators behind.
Hoping to regain lost ground, the Indiana State Police is pushing a bill in the Statehouse that would give it the authority to listen in on cell phone calls and intercept other electronic communications, such as e-mail. Local law enforcement agencies would have the same power, but only with State Police supervision.
Hoping to regain lost ground, the Indiana State Police is pushing a bill in the Statehouse that would give it the authority to listen in on cell phone calls and intercept other electronic communications, such as e-mail. Local law enforcement agencies would have the same power, but only with State Police supervision.
"Is this a game of chance?"
..."Not the way I play it, no." ~W.C. Fields
New York City — A jury was chosen Monday to weigh charges against four former A.B. Watley Group Inc. executives accused of paying brokers at securities firms thousands of dollars to let them eavesdrop on share orders by institutional clients. (more)
UPDATE - 3/29/07
A former Merrill Lynch & Co. broker (Timothy O'Connell, 42, of Carle Place, New York) was arrested on state gambling charges in New York, postponing his federal trial for selling access to trading information broadcast over his firm's office intercom. ... O'Connell is one of seven defendants on trial for conspiring to trade on information broadcast over internal ``squawk boxes'' at top Wall Street firms. He and brokers at Citigroup Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. allowed day traders at A.B. Watley Group Inc., an online brokerage, to eavesdrop on large institutional orders, according to prosecutors. (more)
New York City — A jury was chosen Monday to weigh charges against four former A.B. Watley Group Inc. executives accused of paying brokers at securities firms thousands of dollars to let them eavesdrop on share orders by institutional clients. (more)
UPDATE - 3/29/07
A former Merrill Lynch & Co. broker (Timothy O'Connell, 42, of Carle Place, New York) was arrested on state gambling charges in New York, postponing his federal trial for selling access to trading information broadcast over his firm's office intercom. ... O'Connell is one of seven defendants on trial for conspiring to trade on information broadcast over internal ``squawk boxes'' at top Wall Street firms. He and brokers at Citigroup Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. allowed day traders at A.B. Watley Group Inc., an online brokerage, to eavesdrop on large institutional orders, according to prosecutors. (more)
Must have been a nice place to live!
Oregon - Law-enforcement officials said Monday that they used wiretapping to help gather evidence against the defendants in a suspected illegal drug-distribution ring and said it was the first time that a Benton County investigation used wiretaps under state law. (more)
Monday, March 19, 2007
China Edging US in Espionage
Washington, DC - Chinese espionage directed against the United States has met with "total success for China" and "total failure" for America's own intelligence operations, said an author and reporter on national security issues.
Counter-intelligence operations have allowed the Chinese to block and manipulate U.S. electronic eavesdropping operations while the theft of U.S. technology has helped accelerate Beijing's military ambitions, Bill Gertz said Friday at a gathering of the Defense Forum Foundation on Capitol Hill. ...
For legal reasons, espionage cases are very difficult to prosecute unless someone is caught "red-handed," Gertz observed. Consequently, U.S. government officials must often settle for circumstantial evidence that translates into lesser charges. ...
One of the most sensational cases detailed in Gertz's new book involves Katrina Leung, a Los Angeles businesswoman, who secretly remained loyal to China while working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Leung is one of the many spies who got away, thanks in part to a "botched" FBI investigation, Gertz said.
U.S. officials believe Leung is responsible for compromising an electronic eavesdropping program that involved the planting of bugs on a Boeing airliner China was purchasing in 2000 for Jiang Zemin, who was the communist leader at that time.
The prosecution of Leung proved difficult because she had "intimate relations" with two FBI agents who were responsible for intelligence operations involving China, Gertz said. Consequently the espionage charges against Leung "went away." (more)
Counter-intelligence operations have allowed the Chinese to block and manipulate U.S. electronic eavesdropping operations while the theft of U.S. technology has helped accelerate Beijing's military ambitions, Bill Gertz said Friday at a gathering of the Defense Forum Foundation on Capitol Hill. ...
For legal reasons, espionage cases are very difficult to prosecute unless someone is caught "red-handed," Gertz observed. Consequently, U.S. government officials must often settle for circumstantial evidence that translates into lesser charges. ...
One of the most sensational cases detailed in Gertz's new book involves Katrina Leung, a Los Angeles businesswoman, who secretly remained loyal to China while working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Leung is one of the many spies who got away, thanks in part to a "botched" FBI investigation, Gertz said.
U.S. officials believe Leung is responsible for compromising an electronic eavesdropping program that involved the planting of bugs on a Boeing airliner China was purchasing in 2000 for Jiang Zemin, who was the communist leader at that time.
The prosecution of Leung proved difficult because she had "intimate relations" with two FBI agents who were responsible for intelligence operations involving China, Gertz said. Consequently the espionage charges against Leung "went away." (more)
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Bugs go to court...
South Africa - Three secret microphones and a hidden camera were discovered in Fidentia's Cape Town boardroom in a sweep for electronic bugs after curators took over the business, the city's magistrate's court heard on Friday. (more)
RF Condoms
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
Intercepting Text Messages
Interception of our phone calls and messages is the thing that’s ‘in’ among those who put eavesdropping first. There are various methods that are used.
- First we have phone cloning where the interceptor disguises as the receiver and receives the data, be it text or voice. Later he forwards it to the receiver.
- Another working technique for hacking into phone communications is by using certain illegal firmware that can cause your phone to pick up broadcasts from any other phone that is at a suitable proximity from the mobile station. (more)
- First we have phone cloning where the interceptor disguises as the receiver and receives the data, be it text or voice. Later he forwards it to the receiver.
- Another working technique for hacking into phone communications is by using certain illegal firmware that can cause your phone to pick up broadcasts from any other phone that is at a suitable proximity from the mobile station. (more)
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