The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that hackers located in China managed to breach the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s information technology infrastructure–no, not recently, but at some point prior to the hack …
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Is Your Cell Phone Listening in on You?
Carrier IQ and other smartphone apps allow for unprecedented surveillance. And it’s all legal.
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Zuck, Your Privacy’s Showing
Ah, to be the public face of a wildly successful tech company. Some of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s private photos have been made public thanks to a brief security glitch on the site.
There are some real doozies too: One …
Is Carrier IQ the Devil, or Just Misunderstood?
Last week all hell broke loose over a little piece of surreptitious smartphone software apparently capable of gleaning everything about your mobile maneuvers from the websites you choose to visit using your phone’s browser, to …
Finger-Pointing, Denials and Confusion: Who Put Keystroke-Tracking Software On Your Phone, Anyway?
With U.S. Senators getting involved in the issue about whether or not Americans’ cell activity is being monitored and recorded without their permission, it’s worth asking the most obvious question: How did the offending Carrier …
British Secret Service Creates Website to Recruit Self-Taught Hackers
It had to happen; after years of science-fiction stories where heroes are recruited through video games that are actually tests of their abilities, a secret service has gone all Last Starfighter and set up a fake website designed …
Carrier IQ ‘Wiretap’ Debacle: Much Ado About Something?
Android, Nokia and BlackBerry users, your every key press is being tracked, claims Connecticut systems administrator Trevor Eckhart. Eckhart said as much recently, raising quite the ruckus, but this time he’s back with a 17 …
Set Your Printer on Fire? Hackers Can Do What?
Imagine: Your printer, at rest in your home office as you’re away at work or maybe out shopping. Suddenly it powers up, humming, making that familiar mechanical shuffling sound so many printers emit during startup. But after a …
Hackers Blow Up Illinois Water Utility…or Not
Earlier this month hackers accessed the control system of a water utility in Springfield, Illinois via a Russian IP address and caused a water pump to malfunction and eventually fail, according to reports. This would have been …
Anonymous Releases 38,000 Private Emails of DOJ Investigator
Government officials looking into recent activity from LulzSec and Anonymous, be very afraid–the latter hacktivist group has posted the personal address and phone number of a U.S. Department of Justice investigator online along …
“This quarter Android was the sole target of mobile malware writers.”
Hacker Arrested for Causing $500,000 Worth of Damage to NASA
How much damage can one man cause the National Aeronautics and Space Administration? If the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism’s charges against the newly arrested Robert Butyka are to be …