New cyber-monitoring measures have been quietly introduced in New Zealand giving police and officers the power to monitor all aspects of someone’s online life. The measures are the largest expansion of police and SIS surveillance capabilities for decades, and mean that all mobile calls and texts, email, internet surfing and online shopping, chatting and social [...]

According to the Wall Street Journal, Iraqi insurgents have been regularly using a satellite-snooping software called “Sky Grabber”  (cost = $26) to monitor live Predator video feeds. The Predator transmits video over an unencrypted link, so there’s no major hacking going on here, but it’s obviously a huge issue – and we’d say the bigger [...]

An Israeli hacker, nicknamed “Labba”, has cracked Kindle’s ebook DRM, essentially allowing folks to extract the text of Amazon’s AZW files into a PDF for viewing on any reader. The hackers have reverse engineered the ebook code and very close to a formal, software-based solution. It took the hacker only nine days to strip the [...]

The NSA is constructing a datacenter in the Utah desert that they project will be storing yottabytes of surveillance data. There are a thousand gigabytes in a terabyte, a thousand terabytes in a petabyte, a thousand petabytes in an exabyte, a thousand exabytes in a zettabyte, and a thousand zettabytes in a yottabyte. To wrap [...]

The New York Times reports in this week’s Science section that hardware and software trojan kill switches in military devices are an increasing concern, and may have already been used. ‘A 2007 Israeli Air Force attack on a suspected, partly-constructed Syrian nuclear reactor led to speculation about why the Syrian air defense system did not [...]

A software developer who designed a way to tap and record calls made on Skype and other VoIP networks has made the source code of the spying program public, a move he said will allow other programmers to build workarounds to the potential threat. The programmer, Ruben Unteregger, was tasked by his former company ERA [...]

Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system. The attack was developed by [...]

This 8 minute video demonstrates how easy it is to penetrate a WEP protected WI-FI network. In case your network is using WEP encryption, any data passing through the network is exposed, including files, emails, documents, and passwords.

At the Black Hat security conference, Austrian IT security specialist Peter Kleissner presented a bootkit called Stoned which is capable of bypassing the TrueCrypt partition and system encryption. A bootkit combines a rootkit with the ability to modify a PC’s Master Boot Record, enabling the malware to be activated even before the operating system is [...]

iPhone 3G – not yet ready for corporate usage, due to lacking security. This quick demonstration shows how easily and how quickly law enforcement agencies and hackers are able to recover the raw disk image from an iPhone 3G[s]… and how anyone with a very basic skill set could get to all your live AND [...]