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High-tech devices leave users vulnerable to spies

"You could now listen in 100 percent completely undetected" - that's the promise one company makes on its website to anyone who wants to eavesdrop on someone else's cellphone.

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed

For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 11

DARPA's new spy satellite could provide real-time video from anywhere on Earth

“It sees you when you’re sleeping and knows when you’re awake” could be the theme song for a new spy satellite being developed by DARPA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 16

Japan launches new spy satellite

Japan launched a new spy satellite into orbit on Monday amid concerns over North Korea's missile programme and to monitor natural disasters in the region, officials said.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US cyclist, energy firm guilty in French hacking scandal

A French court handed disgraced US cyclist Floyd Landis a suspended sentence and fined energy giant EDF on Thursday after ruling that both used a shady corporate espionage operation to hack computers.

Technology / Business

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Israel army, intel websites down after hacker threat

The websites of Israel's army and intelligence services were down Sunday, two days after a hacker group appeared to threaten the Jewish state over its interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 06, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 18

Spy software can see smartphone texting realtime (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, there was news from video provider Qumu of their discomforting survey that at least half of Americans would use smartphones to secretly spy on others. Now there is rattling news that spy software ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Cyber spy campaign targets chemical industry: Symantec

US Internet security firm Symantec on Monday exposed a cyber spying campaign targeting trade secrets at top chemical firms and linked the industrial espionage to a man in China.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Pentagon, NASA open space launch missions to private ventures

The U.S. government has taken the first steps toward allowing commercial space companies to launch its national security satellites into outer space.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japan launches new spy satellite

Japan launched a new spy satellite into orbit Friday, officials said, in its latest effort to beef up surveillance against the threat of North Korean missiles.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Experts suspect Iran involvement in Dutch hacking

(AP) -- Hackers who broke into a Dutch web security firm have issued hundreds of bogus security certificates for spy agency websites including the CIA as well as for Internet giants like Google, Microsoft and Twitter, the ...

Technology / Internet

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

IMF 'may never know' who mounted cyber attack

The International Monetary Fund said Friday it may be impossible to identify who mounted a cyber attack on its computer files in May, after a Bloomberg report suggested it was China.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Fujitsu launches new SPI FRAMs in 0.18µm technology

Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe is sampling customers with the new SPI FRAMs based on its 0.18µm technology. With this step, Fujitsu approaches the end of the migration process from 0.35 to 0.18µm technology ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hackers claim hit on CIA website (Update 2)

A hacker group was brazenly ramping up its antics as waves of cyberattacks targeting even the US spy agency expose how poorly defended many networks are against Internet marauders.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 8

US reaches plea deal with NSA spy whistle-blower

An ex-senior official in the top secret US National Security Agency will plead guilty to exceeding authorized use of a computer in a classified information leak case, court papers showed Thursday.

Technology / Other

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1