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Montenegro reclama que Oyarbide se inhiba en la causa por las escuchas

El ministro de Justicia y Seguridad porteño, Guillermo Montenegro, pidió hoy al juez federal Norberto Oyarbide que se aparte de la causa por las escuchas telefónicas que salpica al gobierno de Mauricio Macri.

En un escrito que presentó en los tribunales de Comodoro Py, el funcionario sostuvo que el magistrado “se tendrá que apartar y tendrá que continuar otro juez” para que la administración porteña dé “las explicaciones que hay que dar” en el caso.

El pedido del ministro se basa en un artículo del Código Procesal que establece que los magistrados deben inhibirse de actuar en causas en las que los imputados hayan hecho, con anterioridad al inicio del expediente, acusaciones judiciales contra el magistrado. Y Montenegro, cuando era fiscal, llevó adelante una acusación en la que imputó a Oyarbide 16 hechos; el primero de la lista, como se encargó de recordar esta mañana el ministro, justamente por irregularidades en una causa por escuchas ilegales.

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New Hack Pinpoints Cell Phone User’s Location, Personal And Business Relationships

Apr 21, 2010 | 12:27 PM

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
DarkReading

Turns out you don’t even need a GPS to track a mobile phone user’s whereabouts and glean her movements and interactions: Researchers have discovered a way to use information from the GSM mobile infrastructure to track down someone and even listen in on her voicemail messages and calls.

Don Bailey, security consultant with iSec Partners, and independent researcher Nick DePetrillo today at the SOURCE Boston conference demonstrated how they were able to use a combination of available GSM data plus their own handmade tools to glean someone’s cell phone number, pinpoint where she was located physically, and determine what she was doing, as well as gather intelligence about her relationships — business or otherwise.

“We create a dossier about someone’s life over a period of time,” Bailey says. “We’re able to infer things about an individual’s behavior and interactions with the company they work for [as well],” he says.

The researchers gathered information from the GSM network infrastructure itself: “We’re using information we can gather from the GSM network to infer your location. And we’ve taken GSM geolocation a few steps forward, combined with some tools we developed,” DePetrillo says. “This is new and novel and really, really scary.”

The research has chilling implications for businesses, as well as the individuals themselves. Bailey and DePetrillo say they were able to glean the identity of a government contractor by sifting through caller IDs and phone numbers they traced to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, for example.

Bottom line is it demonstrates inherent weaknesses in the way mobile providers interoperate over the GSM infrastructure. “There is a soft underbelly in the cell phone network…it’s an interoperability thing,” Bailey says. “We are taking advantage of the way these companies are exposing interfaces to each other. That’s where it becomes a serious problem.”

Tyler Shields — a senior researcher for Veracode who recently released proof-of-concept code for a spyware app for the BlackBerry that can track the victim’s physical location via GPS and grab sensitive information — says Bailey and DePetrillo’s research is novel in that it attacks the GSM infrastructure itself.

“That’s akin to attacking the Internet at the router level,” Shields says. “This attacks at the infrastructure level versus the application level. If you can compromise the infrastructure’s underlying building blocks, the rest of it will tumble. That’s what makes their [research] so interesting.”

The researchers used the GSM provider caller ID database, the Home Location Registry (HLR), and some voicemail-hacking techniques, along with their own tools. They reverse-engineered the mobile phone caller ID database by scanning blocks of cell phone numbers, creating a white pages of sorts of these numbers. “It comes back with the name of the organization that owns it,” DePetrillo says. They also were able to determine the cell number’s cell provider, even if that number had been ported to a new provider, he says.

They then leveraged the HLR, a central repository of information mobile phone subscribers, to locate cell phone towers and regional locations, among other information. “We [used] the mobile switching center number, which corresponds with all cell phone towers in a region and calls back to the switching center where data is routed,” Bailey says.

The researchers were able to combine this data, as well as from social networks, to glean a victim’s comings and goings. “We can make connections between the movements and 50 or so candidates and whittle it down to one or two,” for example, he says.

They then sifted through voicemail or grabbed phone records of who the victim had been speaking with. “We can take those numbers and get you and the other phone to call each other” and conference in to listen in on the conversation to grab more intelligence, he says.

With a little caller ID spoofing, they can extract other information about the victim by hacking into voicemail, for instance. “We can call someone’s phone with a spoofed caller ID. Then we can enter the voicemail box without a PIN,” DePetrillo says. “That’s not new, but combined with other techniques, it lets us get directly into their voicemail without ringing the phone.”

The researchers — who did not release the tools they created — have alerted major GSM carriers in the U.S. about their findings. “They are very concerned,” Bailey says. Some are looking at how to better mitigate these types of attacks, but it won’t be easy.

How can a mobile phone user protect herself from this in the meantime? Short of shutting off her phone, not much, according to the researchers.

There are a few possible red flags that could indicate an attack, but it’s mainly a silent one. “If you have a particular missed call, or something strange happens, like you got a phone call from yourself, or your [phone] is suddenly calling someone [itself], those could be telltale signs of an attack.”

But most of these attacks would be transparent to the victim. There’s only about a 10 to 15 percent chance he would see something awry, Bailey says, because the phone won’t ring, for instance.

The researchers say some of their work actually scared them. “The Washington, D.C., area is pretty insecure,” DePetrillo says. “I came up with a scenario where you can track very important individuals wherever they are…you don’t have to track a government official under high security, just the people who travel with him [via their phones], a lot of whom are not under high security, such as congressional aides.”

“So if want to find out where Steve Jobs, Brad Pitt, or Tiger Woods is hiding out, you could [potentially] do that with our techniques,” he says.

‘Colombian govt involved in illegal wiretaps’

In a special report on Tuesday Colombian news source CM& claimed to have access to documents proving that information collected through the surveillance and wiretapping of judges, journalists and politicians conducted by security agency DAS was passed on to members of the government.

The documents were obtained by the Prosecutor General’s Office and used to justify the arrest of five former DAS officials last Friday.

Among the documents is allegedly a file labeled “President Uribe,” which was used by the DAS officials to collate “documents of interest to the Colombian president.”

A second document allegedly shows evidence of the surveillance of journalist Holman Morris by the security agency, including an apparently illegally-obtained email written by Morris.

The final piece of evidence mentioned in CM&’s report documents the opinions and intentions of Supreme Court magistrates concerning the re-election referendum of President Alvaro Uribe.

The report is allegedly also labeled with the word “President” and documents which of the court’s magistrates were against the approval of a referendum that would allow for the potential re-election of Uribe to his third term as president.

In reference to the new evidence, the president of Colombia’s Supreme Court, Jaime Arrubla, said on Mondaythat “everything seemed to indicate” that the government had been directly involved in the wire-tapping of court magistrates, which he found “horrifying.”

Arrubla accused the Colombian government of a “conspiracy of the state against the court, a criminal action” and requested a full investigation of the aides of President Uribe who have been implicated in the scandal.

Speaking to national media, Gustavo Petro, the presidential candidate for political party Polo Democratico, also recommended that an investigation be opened into allegations against President Uribe.

“There is no doubt that the political responsibility lies with President Uribe,” said Petro, adding that the inspector general must conduct investigations, “proceeding according to his duty and showing his independence.”

A statement released by the Colombian government on Monday, however, denied all allegations of involvement in the wiretapping scandal, saying, “Following stories in the press related to the investigation carried out by the Prosecutor General’s Office about alleged illegal wiretaps, the Presidency of the Republic wishes to state that not one employee of the Casa de Nariño has met with officials to instruct or order the interception (of communication) or shadowing of magistrates, politicians or any person. All officials are willing to appear before the judicial bodies to ratify that the Casa de Nariño never has given instructions in this sense.”

New evidence collected will primarily be used to investigate charges against the scandal-ridden DAS for illegal wire-tapping and surveillance activities.

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COLOMBIA – Uribe Denies Ordering Wiretaps

President Alvaro Uribe declared today that he never ordered wiretaps, nor surveillance of Supreme Court judges and opposition party leaders

In an interview with a local radio station, President Alvaro Uribe swore that he never ordered surveillance or wiretaps on Supreme Court judges and opposition party leaders. The leader asked that his statements be transcribed and copies submitted to the Prosecutor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office, the House of Representatives Accusations Commission and the Superior Council of the Judiciary so that they be added to the investigation which resulted from the scandal.

Read more: http://www.poder360.com/dailynews_detail.php?blurbid=6802#ixzz0lbSpukbX

Se aviva escándalo en Colombia por espionaje a jueces y opositores

El escándalo por el espionaje del servicio secreto colombiano a magistrados, opositores y periodistas se avivó por unas pruebas de que la orden pudo provenir de la sede del Gobierno, lo que fue desmentido por el presidente Álvaro Uribe este martes.

Álvaro Uribe, presidente de Colombia.

“Lo digo bajo juramento, a usted y toda la opinión pública colombiana. Este es un gobierno que no apela a procedimientos turbios. Es un gobierno que procede de frente. Eso de mandar a hacer interceptaciones es ajeno a la manera de pensar y de obrar de este gobierno” , dijo Uribe a la radio Santa Fe de Bogotá.

Estas declaraciones responden a pruebas reveladas el fin de semana por la Fiscalía General acerca de que las escuchas ilegales y seguimientos pudieron ser ordenado desde la Casa de Nariño (sede presidencial) .

El espionaje afectó a magistrados de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, políticos opositores y periodistas críticos. El DAS es un organismo que depende directamente de la Presidencia. Uribe anunció hace meses una reforma al organismo que aún no ha sido aprobada por el Congreso.

El presidente encargado de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, Jaime Arrubla, comparó el hecho con el caso watergate de Estado Unidos, y dijo a periodistas que “se está ante una conspiración de Estado, una acción criminal” .

Por su parte, el candidato presidencial del opositor Polo Democrático Alternativo (PDA, izquierda) , Gustavo Petro, uno de los espiados, dijo que denunciará a Uribe ante la justicia como responsable de las escuchas.

El escándalo, que fue revelado por la prensa a principios de 2009, resurgió la semana pasada luego que la Fiscalía capturó a Gian Carlo Auque De Silvestri, ex director de Inteligencia y ex secretario general del DAS, y a Germán Villalba, ex subdirector de fuentes humanas.

También fueron detenidos otros cinco ex altos funcionarios del DAS, entre ellos el ex jefe de inteligencia, Fernando Tabares; el ex director de contrainteligencia, Jorge Lagos y la ex directora operativa, Luz Marina Rodríguez.

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U.S. Ends Aid to Colombian Anti-Drug Agency Accused Of Illegal Wiretapping

Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The U.S. government cut off its assistance this week to a Colombian anti-drug law enforcement agency after allegations of illegal spying.

Officials in the administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe are implicated in some of the allegations.

The Colombian government already has signaled its intention to dismantle the agency, called DAS, or the Administrative Department of Security.

U.S. financial and technological assistance for Colombia’s effort against drug lords will continue, but it will be transferred to the National Police and other agencies, said U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield.

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Read more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7018412865#ixzz0lYNGrbxy

5 former DAS executives arrested over wiretap scandal

Agents of Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office on Friday arrested five former executives of intelligence agency DAS for their alleged responsibility in the illegal wiretapping of judges, journalists, human rights workers and politicians.

Fernando Tabares, Jorge Lagos, Bernardo Murillo, Luz Marina Rodriguez and German Albeiro Ospina will have to respond to charges of conspiracy and abuse of power.

The five directors of the agency’s intelligence and counter-intelligence units are suspected of having known of the existence of the DAS’ G3 unit that was specialized in the spying on individuals.

According to newspaper El Espectador, the five will be arraigned on Saturday.

The wiretap scandal led to severe criticism by those subjected to illegal spying and forced President Alvaro Uribe to dismantle the intelligence agency and create a new one. Following the scandal, the U.S. Congress demanded that no money earmarked for aid to Colombia can be spent on the DAS or its successor.

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