Bolstering Bluetooth
March 29, 2007
Bluetooth is getting its first filling, thanks to researchers from Tel Aviv University’s electrical-engineering school. The technology — which passes data between cellphones, laptops, and other devices over short-range radio frequencies — is already widely used, but the team at Tel Aviv discovered that it had some disturbing security holes.
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http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/
Italy arrests 12 more in T.Italia wiretap case
MILAN, March 22 (Reuters) – Italian authorities have arrested 12 more people in connection with an investigation into illegal wiretapping by Telecom Italia (TLIT.MI: Quote, Profile, Research) staff and others, judicial sources told Reuters on Thursday.
The investigation began last year, and in September magistrates arrested several people including Telecom Italia’s former head of security, Giuliano Tavaroli.
Magistrates accuse those arrested of illegally obtaining information through wiretapping and computer hacking.
Those arrested on Thursday are mainly police officers who, magistrates suspect, participated in the illegal activities, the sources said.
http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nL2286961
La SIDE al descubierto (Spanish)
Un colaborador de la Inteligencia K revela cómo se pinchan los teléfonos de opositores y ministros. Sus denuncias contra Julio De Vido y Guillermo Moreno.
Van sólo tres minutos de entrevista. Ariel Garbarz se detiene en mitad de una frase, hace un silencio misterioso y pregunta: “¿Vos apagaste tu celular? El mío está protegido, pero el tuyo, no sé…”. El periodista obedece. Y él explica en voz baja: “Si está prendido, lo pueden transformar en micrófono y escuchar todo lo que estamos hablando. Ésa es la última moda, ya le pasó a varios funcionarios”.
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http://www.noticias.uol.com.ar/edicion_1574/nota_00.htm
Biggest security threat? Your users
How to protect against naive, careless or malicious users
Amy Larsen DeCarlo
March 21, 2007 (Computerworld) — Whether it is the FBI’s sheepish acknowledgement that at least 10 of the 160 agency laptops that have gone missing in recent years contained “sensitive or classified information” or the drama of retailer TJX’s February admission that the incident that put its customer credit card information in the hands of thieves impacted more people than originally thought, security incidents keep making headlines and vexing organizations.
Wiretap scandal: Vodafone, Ericsson at odds
| Athens(Greece), AP: |
| A parliament committee is investigating the illegal cell phone surveillance of Premier Costas Caramanlis’ and senior state security officials from just before the August 2004 Olympic Games until March 2005. |
The head of Ericsson’s operations in Greece has disputed an account given by telecom giant Vodafone about a major wiretapping scandal that included illegal surveillance of the country’s prime minister.
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http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/Mar162006/update71652006316.asp
Vodafone fined €76m over Greek wiretap scandal
Greece’s privacy watchdog has fined Vodafone €76m ($100m) over a wiretapping scandal that saw the illegal monitoring of the mobile calls of top government officials including Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis.
Vodafone was ruled at fault for not preventing unknown hackers from subverting a legitimate surveillance system, supplied by Swedish firm Ericsson, to spy on Greek officials around the time of the 2004 Athens Olympics. The mobile operator said that the investigation was incomplete because officials were yet to question Ericsson. It plans to appeal the ruling.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/voda_fined_over_greek_wiretaps/
Punish Spying? I Must Be Abroad
By Jennifer Granick
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Also by this reporter
While the United States is embroiled in debate over continuing revelations of official eavesdropping, data mining and other surveillance programs, democracies in Asia and Europe are grappling with similar wiretapping scandals of their own.
These stories are not well covered in America, but they demonstrate that our problem is a universal one. Regardless of geography, in the absence of strong legal and technological safeguards, officials simply cannot resist listening in.
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http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71408-0.html
Pellicano to rep self in wiretap trial
Jan 6, 2007
A judge on Friday allowed Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano to act as his own lawyer at his racketeering and wiretapping trial.
Report: Foreign spying on U.S. defense tech rises
Foreign countries, especially nations in the Asia-Pacific region, have intensified their efforts to steal sensitive U.S. defense technology, according to a Pentagon report.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6147097.html
The Eternal Value of Privacy
The most common retort against privacy advocates — by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures — is this line: “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?”
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