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Carnegie Mellon System Thwarts Internet Eavesdropping
2008-09-01 00:07:00 Carnegie Mellon System Thwarts Internet Eavesdropping Available as Free Download for Firefox BrowserPITTSBURGH?The growth of shared Wi-Fi and other wireless computer networks has increased the risk of eavesdropping on Internet communications, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and College of Engineering have devised a low-cost system that can thwart these "Man-in-the-Middle" (MitM) attacks.The system, called Perspectives, also can protect against attacks related to a recently disclosed software flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS), the Internet phone book used to route messages between computers.The researchers ? David Andersen, assistant professor of computer science, Adrian Perrig, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and public policy, and Dan Wendlandt, a Ph.D. student in computer science ? have incorporated Perspectives into an extension for the popular Mozilla Firefox v3 browser than can be downloaded free of charg...
Eavesdropping on your neighbours? theme
2008-05-21 14:57:00 Many of us, bloggers, surely must have had such encounter : getting on a blog which looks superb, and instantly we would try looking for the footer or somewhere else, through the blog for any hints of what theme that blog is using. Sometimes to use it ourselves afterwards, or just maybe out of curiousity. ...
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Low Cost Mobile Phone Eavesdropping Device a Reality?
2008-04-10 00:54:00 Researchers in the US claim to be able to develop a device that is able to eavesdrop on mobile phone conversations by hacking into GSM networks, for a cost of mere $1,000. Previous attempts to develop such a device have cost upwards of $100,000. The 64-bit A5/1 Network Encryption used on GSM networks has been cracked for almost a decade now, but after the developments that occurred at this year’s 2008 Black Hat Conference in Washington D.C., the technology is that much closer to being developed. Copyright © 2008 Spy Review. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@spyreview.co.uk so we can take legal action immediately.
By: Spy Review
Virgin trains boost mobile coverage amid fears of industrial eavesdropping
2008-04-08 00:00:00 UK train operator Virgin is working with Vodafone to improve cellphone signal continuity on 52 trains from their fleet, using retransmitters that boost both 2G and 3G in the carriages. The project, set to be completed by November, has supposedly already seen an increase in the number of successfully completed, interruption-free calls; ...
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Video: Eavesdropping on Milk
2008-02-07 00:00:00 We've seen some still pics of Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, and we were impressed with the physical transformation. Now in this new amateur video from the filming of Milk, you can hear for the first time just how much...
By: Good As You
Bluetooth Eavesdropping
2008-02-06 10:11:00 Joshua Wright from the SANS Institute demonstrates how to eavesdrop on bluetooth headsets in this video. The moral of this tale is to always make sure your phone and headset are running the very latest firmware, even then, things still aren’t 100% secure. Big Brother is watching Listening!
By: Hack247
Unauthorized Recordings - Eavesdropping - Michigan
2008-02-05 23:33:00 Perhaps you have wanted to record a phone conversation or video taped someone in your house, and wondered whether this is permitted by law. Alternatively, perhaps you have been the subject of an unauthorized video or telephone recording, and want to know your rights.
By: LawRefs
Secret Means are necessary: eavesdropping
2008-01-25 18:16:00 News Updates from Citizens for Legitimate Government Jan 25,2008 Breaking News Like FBI, CIA Has Used Secret 'Letters' Jan 25, 2008: Newly released documents shed light on the use of national security letters by the CIA. The spy agency has employed them to obtain financial information about US residents and does so under extraordinary secrecy, according to the American Civil Liberties Union,
Eavesdropping Is Possible On Cisco IP Phones
2007-12-01 01:55:00 Cisco confirms that an attacker with valid Extension Mobility authentication credentials could cause a Cisco Unified IP Phone configured to use the Extension Mobility feature to transmit or receive a Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) audio stream. This ability can be exploited to perform a remote eavesdropping attack. All Cisco IP Phones that support the Extension Mobility feature are vulnerable. For this attack to be possible, several conditions need to be satisfied: The internal web server of the IP phone must be enabled. The web server is enabled by default.The IP phone must be configured to use the Extension Mobility feature, which is not enabled by default.The attacker must possess or obtain valid Extension Mobility authentication credentials. Extension Mobility authentication credentials are not tied to individual IP phones. Any Extension Mobility account configured on an IP phone's Cisco Unified Communications Manager/CallManager (CUCM) server can be used to perform an e...
Carriers Try To Avoid The Warrantless Eavesdropping Spotlight
2007-11-20 00:20:00 Carriers Try To Avoid The Warrantless Eavesdropping SpotlightThe telecom, including AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest, face what AT&T officials have called "a maelstrom" of civil lawsuits over the eavesdropping program.http://www.inf...
Vonage and Others were Warned about SIP ID Theft, Eavesdropping and Other E
2007-10-26 08:57:00 Sipera, the VoIP security firm that I saw first at BlackHat 2007 has warned VoIP firms before disclosing the vulnerabilities. There are multiple vulnerabilities, advisories and they are listed here.The tests focused specifically of residential and SMB VoIP service and equipment. I was surprised to find strong authentication, signaling security, and media encryption were lacking, looks like everybody is following Microsoft. Get it Out there first and then we fix it as troubles jump up.So what does these vulnerabilities do to users? spoofing, eavesdropping, and remote exploits are some of the possibilities.I will write later today about what you should be looking in VoIP Security.Following is the news release by Sipera;Richardson, TX, October 23, 2007 ? Sipera VIPER? Lab, operated by Sipera Systems, the leader in comprehensive VoIP/UC security solutions, today disclosed multiple threat advisories for users of VoIP services and equipment from Vonage, Globe7 and Grandstream. Among other...
Eavesdropping Didn’t Help Uncover Terrorist Plot
2007-09-14 00:48:00 crymeph0 writes “Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell asserted that the ‘Protect America Act,’ which frees the intelligence community from pesky things like judicial oversight while they eavesdrop on international conversations, was used to good effect in exposing the recently foiled terrorist plot to bomb US military facilities in Germany. Not so, according to other, anonymous, intelligence community officials. McConnell was forced to admit his errors in a phone call to Sen. Joe Lieberman. Turns out the military got wise to the bad guys months before the law was passed, simply due to alert military guards noticing odd behavior by some passers-by, a.k.a. good old fashioned police work.”Read more of this story at Slashdot. (more…) Share This
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Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
2007-09-06 17:54:00 Sep. 06, 2007 | On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam’s inner ...
By: The Hot Joints
Eavesdropping vulnerability in SIP stacks with the code
2007-08-29 18:58:00 An eavesdropping vulnerability was revealed on the popularFull Disclosure mailing list on Wednesday. Vulnerabilityresearchers Humberto Abdelnur, Radu State and Olivier Festorclaimed the exploit could allow a remote attacker to turn aVoIP phone into an eavesdropping device, citing a GrandstreamSIP phone as an example.While playing with the SIP Madynes stateful fuzzerfor a description see http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00166-947/en),we have realized that some SIP stack engines have seriousbugs allowing to an attacker to automatically make a remotephone accept the call without ringing and without asking theuser to take the phone from the hook, such that the attackermight be able to listen to all conversations that take placein the remote room without being noticed.One example that wecan disclose (vendor was notified on 10 th May 2007) is thefollowing: Grandstream SIP Phone GXV-3000MADYNES Security Advisory : SIP remote attack onGrandstream SIP Phone GXV-3000Date of Discovery 7 th May, 2...
FBI Eavesdropping Network
2007-08-29 17:25:00 Your Rights Online: FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network Posted by Zonk on Wednesday August 29, @09:28AM from the hiya-big-bro dept. An anonymous reader writes "Building off the design mandates of CALEA, the FBI has constructed a 'point-and-click surveillance system' that creates instant wiretaps on almost any communications device. A thousand pages of restricted documents released under the Freedom of Information Act were required to determine the veracity of this clandestine project, Wired News reports. Called the Digital Collection System Network, it connects FBI wiretapping rooms to switches controlled by traditional land-line operators, internet-telephony providers and cellular companies. It is intricately woven into the nation's telecom infrastructure. From the article: 'FBI wiretapping rooms in field offices and undercover locations around the country are connected through a private, encrypted backbone that is ...
By: for bored mindz
Bush signs new warantless electronic eavesdropping legislation into US law
2007-08-06 15:09:00 Bush signs new warantless electronic eavesdropping legislation into US law 06/08/2007 10:38:00 - by Martyn Warwick The seemingly inexorable drift by the United States into incipient totalitarianism continues. Yesterday, President Bush signed into law legislation that increases the federal government’s authority to place surveillance, without warrant, on international telephone calls and e-mail messages made from and to US citizens. What is worrying many is that the legislative change, that has the most profound implications for the rights and privacy of the individual in what is supposed to be the world's most open and democratic nation, was rushed through both the House and the Senate in the last couple of days ...
By: for bored mindz
Democrats say Congress poised to update U.S. eavesdropping law
2007-08-06 15:05:00 Democrats say Congress poised to update U.S. eavesdropping law The Associated Press Wednesday, August 1, 2007 WASHINGTON: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales conceded Wednesday that he used confusing language when describing national security efforts during recent Senate testimony, an attempt to set the record straight about the government's terror surveillance program and clear questions about his credibility. Gonzales' letter to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which stopped short of an apology, came as congressional Democrats agreed to give the government greater authority to spy on foreign terror suspects. The permission is temporary and limits Gonzales' role in deciding how the power is to be used. The Bush administration is pressing Congress to revamp a 1978 law to help find terror plots overseas but has faced sharp criticism of the FBI's misuse of terror investigation tools and widespread skepticism about Gonzales' honesty. Senators ...
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Repost: Andy Griffith on Eavesdropping
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US appeals throws out ruling against eavesdropping program
2007-07-06 18:10:00 A US appeals court on Friday struck down a lower court’s order against the US government’s domestic eavesdropping program, launched in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The appeals court, in a 2-1 decision, said the plaintiffs should not have won an injunction against the National Security Agency’s surveillance program because they failed ...
By: The Hot Joints
U.S. Pays Mexico To Cooperate In Mutual Data-Mining And Eavesdropping Progr
2007-05-25 07:42:00 Leave it to a Republican politician. They’re BRILLIANT; always looking for that “loophole”, and almost ALWAYS able to find it. People need to get over the FACT that President “Surge” W. Bush is no idiot. In fact, he’s quite clever, indeed. We thought we MIGHT have tied his hands on ...
NSA eavesdropping program ruled unconstitutional
2006-08-23 19:48:08 [From CNN.com] NSA eavesdropping program ruled unconstitutional Judge tells U.S. to halt domestic spying without court order Thursday, August 17, 2006 (CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the U.S. government’s domestic eavesdropping program is unconstitutional and ordered it ended immediately. In a 44-page memorandum and order, U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, — who is based in [...]
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