Topic: Phone - on November 30, 2011 at 11:26:00 AM CET
BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps
An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users.
In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Eckhart showed how software from a Silicon Valley company known as Carrier IQ recorded in real time the keys he pressed into a stock EVO handset, which he had reset to factory settings just prior to the demonstration. Using a packet sniffer while his device was in airplane mode, he demonstrated how each numeric tap and every received text message is logged by the software.
Could be possible it is only on US or some other countries pre-installed. As no one would even care to install those in EU countries where EU officials would rip off the phone company, operator and the software manufacturer so small pieces that they would never survive.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 30, 2011 at 11:20:00 AM CET
Researchers: Millions of Printers Vulnerable to Attack
Columbia University researchers say tens of millions of printers may have flawed firmware that could allow hackers to remotely set fires, erase code and infiltrate computer networks, according to a report on MSNBC’s Red Tape Chronicles blog today.
....Looking ahead however, Cui and Jonathan Voris, a doctoral student at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, are scheduled to demonstrate more of these vulnerabilities at next month’s 28th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The two plan on showing how a specific rootkit can monitor, intercept and manipulate incoming print jobs on HP P2050 printers, along with describing how widespread the vulnerability really is.
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Topic: EU - on November 30, 2011 at 11:15:00 AM CET
EU ignoriert mindestens 40 höchst kritische Sicherheitslücken
Vor über einem Monat haben wir die EU-Kommission über eine hohe Anzahl sehr kritischer Sicherheitslücken informiert und um Kontakt gebeten, damit wir Details über die aufgedeckten Schwachstellen übermitteln können. Die Hinweise wurden per E-Mail an diverse Zuständigkeitsbereiche der Europäischen Kommission gesendet. Die ersten 10 Hinweise, die über den Zeitraum verteilt gesendet wurden, hat man schlichtweg einfach ignoriert, zum Teil auch ungelesen gelöscht. Dies geht aus den jeweiligen Sendeberichten hervor, die hier natürlich vorliegen. Durch einen zufälligen Fund ...
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Topic: POLITIK - on November 30, 2011 at 11:00:00 AM CET
Neues vom Bayern-Trojaner: Weitere Informationen zum Einsatz der Spionage-Software
Der Einsatz von Spionagesoftware durch bayerische Sicherheitsbehörden ist massiv in die Kritik geraten. Nach Recherchen der Grünen hat das Landeskriminalamt bislang in 22 Fällen Verdächtige mit so genannten Trojanern überwacht und dabei in sechs Fällen auch Screenshots vom Bildschirm gezogen, obwohl diese Maßnahme vom Landshuter Landgericht für rechtswidrig erklärt worden ist.
Weitere Maßnahmen wurden durch das Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz durchgeführt, mehrere Trojaner-Einsätze erfolgten in Form von Amtshilfe für außerbayerische Sicherheitsbehörden. Die Grünen haben in Schriftlichen Anfragen an die Staatsregierung weitere Aufklärung über die umstrittenen Einsätze gefordert, zu denen das Innenministerium nun neue Informationen vorgelegt hat.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on November 30, 2011 at 10:57:00 AM CET
BND vernichtete historische Akten
Eine Historikerkommission soll erstmals die Nazivergangenheit des Bundesnachrichtendienstes erforschen - doch zahlreiche wichtige Akten gibt es gar nicht mehr: Im Jahr 2007 wurden Papiere von 250 ehemaligen Mitarbeitern geschreddert, die in das NS-Regime verstrickt waren. Die Wissenschaftler fordern jetzt Aufklärung von der Behörde, doch die wiegelt ab.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on November 30, 2011 at 10:08:00 AM CET
You will prosecuted
A female protestor displays her hands with Yemen's flag and writing Arabic that reads,"you will prosecuted," during a demonstration demanding the prosecution of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa
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Topic: NEWS - on November 29, 2011 at 2:18:00 PM CET
Julian Assange wins Walkley award 2011 - Ein Preis für Assange
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Topic: NEWS - on November 29, 2011 at 2:14:00 PM CET
The Stories You Missed in 2011
10 events and trends that were overlooked this year, but may be leading the headlines in 2012.
1 India's Military Buildup 2 'New Europe' Falls Out of Love with the Euro 3 Mexico's Drug War Moves South 4 Peak Camel? ...
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 29, 2011 at 12:21:00 PM CET
'Tis the Season to Get Hacked: Don’t Become a Holiday Cybercrime Victim
It’s that time of year again. Cyber Monday, the day after Thanksgiving weekend, is one of the biggest online shopping days of the year. And cyber grinches have your personal financial information at the top of their holiday shopping lists. Searching for gifts on the web and using mobile and online banking tools can make consumers easy targets for identity thieves. According to the 2011 Identity Fraud Survey Report by Javelin Strategy & Research, 40% of identity theft victims had their information misused while making an online purchases, compared to just 13% for purchases made by mail or over the phone.
While you’re getting into the spirit of holiday giving, remember that’s when cybercriminals are planning to take you to the cleaners. Consumers need to understand that their online personal information can be stolen in a variety of different ways. And it’s important to know how to spot all of them.
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Topic: BLOG - on November 29, 2011 at 12:18:00 PM CET
Google Analytics A Potential Threat to Anonymous Bloggers
Last month, an anonymous blogger popped up on WordPress and Twitter, aiming a giant flamethrower at Mac-friendly writers like John Gruber, Marco Arment and MG Siegler. As he unleashed wave after wave of spittle-flecked rage at "Apple puppets" and "Cupertino douchebags," I was reminded again of John Gabriel's theory about the effects of online anonymity.
Out of curiosity, I tried to see who the mystery blogger was.
He was using all the ordinary precautions for hiding his identity -- hiding personal info in the domain record, using a different IP address from his other sites, and scrubbing any shared resources from his WordPress install.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on November 29, 2011 at 11:52:00 AM CET
Polizeigewalt in Demokratien - Pfefferspray - Der neue Wasserwerfer
2011 ist das Jahr des Pfeffersprays - Wenn Demokratien gegen Demonstranten vorgehen, greifen sie zu dem Reizgas, das harmlos aussieht, aber töten kann
"Wir leben im Zeitalter des Pfeffersprays, nicht im Zeitalter der Kugeln", bringt der US-Popkulturforscher Robert Thompson in der New York Times ein Phänomen auf den Punkt, das sich in diesem Krisenjahr so geballt beobachten lässt wie bisher noch nie. Pfefferspray gegen deutsche Atomkraftgegner, Pfefferspray gegen #occupy-Demonstranten im New Yorker Zuccotti-Park, Pfefferspray gegen die Blockierer der serbisch-kosovarischen Grenze: wo auch immer demokratische Staaten anno 2011 ihre Macht gegen delinquente Demonstranten einsetzten, mit Wasser gebundenes Reizgas war fester Bestandteil der Szenerie.
.... Dutzende Tote Schon 2003 hat das US-Justizministerium, damals vom Republikaner John Ashcroft geführt, eine Studie veröffentlicht, in der 63 Todesfälle nach Pfefferspray-Einsätzen in den USA dokumentiert sind.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on November 26, 2011 at 11:35:00 AM CET
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park.
But just when Americans thought we had the picture – was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities? – the picture darkened. The National Union of Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a Freedom of Information Act request to investigate possible federal involvement with law enforcement practices that appeared to target journalists. The New York Times reported that "New York cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers" covering protests. Reporters were asked by NYPD to raise their hands to prove they had credentials: when many dutifully did so, they were taken, upon threat of arrest, away from the story they were covering, and penned far from the site in which the news was unfolding. Other reporters wearing press passes were arrested and roughed up by cops, after being – falsely – informed by police that "It is illegal to take pictures on the sidewalk."
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