Blog Posts Tagged with "Surveillance"
The Fight Against Secret Surveillance Law Continues: EFF Asks D.C. Circuit to Order Release of Secret Legal Opinion
March 19, 2013 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
In a brief filed on Friday, EFF continued its fight against secret surveillance law, asking the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to order the release of a secret opinion of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).
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The Dutch, the Yanks, the Cloud and YOU
December 13, 2012 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
Recently a research project by the Amsterdam University [PDF Alert] revealed that US law allows for the US government to access information stored in the Cloud, by (ab)using the PATRIOT act...
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Warrantless Surveillance 101: Introducing EFF's New NSA Domestic Spying Guide
December 06, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
On December 14th, we hope that the Northern District of California federal court will agree with us that our case challenging illegal domestic spying should move forward. Warrantless wiretapping isn't a state secret—it's a clear violation of FISA, other laws, and the Constitution...
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Google Transparency Report: Let's Read it Together
November 17, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Government surveillance is one of the most interesting security topics. In many cases governments for various reasons, such as Homeland Security, spy on users tracking their activities on the Internet, intercept their communications, and gain access to email accounts...
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Russia deploys a massive surveillance network system
November 03, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
DPI is most advanced and intrusive category of inspection tools, it is able to analyze every packet in traffic filtering particular services or contents. Remeber that DPI systems have been adopted by various regimes such Iran and also China used the technology to implement its Great Firewall project...
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Stop the Next SOPA and CISPA: Register to Vote for Internet Freedom
September 30, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Congress needs to know that the Internet is watching and that users won’t sit on the sidelines as technology intended to connect us and bring knowledge to people worldwide is turned against us for the purposes of censorship and surveillance...
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CleanIT Project: concerns for a Global Surveillance Project
September 23, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
I just returned from the Cyber Threat Summit in Dublin, The event revealed an alarming scenario on cyber threats, no matter if it is cybercrime, hacktivism, cyber terrorism or cyber warfare, all those share a worrying growth of attacks that are influencing our digital lives...
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House Passes the Broad Warrantless Spying Bill
September 23, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The House voted to renew the dangerous FISA Amendment Act which hands the NSA broad, warrantless surveillance powers for another five years. Sadly, the House refused to add any oversight powers or privacy protections, despite evidence the NSA has used it to spy on Americans...
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Network Surveillance Devices Discovered via Shodan
September 20, 2012 Added by:shawn merdinger
It’s no secret that Shodan has turned up some interesting findings over the years. Now, we can add surveillance devices like BlueCoat Proxy and PacketShaper boxes, Cisco routers running Lawful Intercept code and various vendors’ CALEA Mediation Devices to what savvy researchers can find...
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Creating a Surveillance-Free Internet
September 20, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Since its origins in 2008, Freedom Not Fear has developed the general message: fundamental rights like privacy, free expression, due process, and democratic participation are jeopardized when reactionary, fear-driven surveillance systems penetrate our societies...
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Research Sheds Light on New Surveillance Apps for Smartphones
September 04, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The FinSpy Mobile analysis will allow vulnerable and at-risk users to better understand the threat of government surveillance and make better judgements to protect their security and privacy. This software is sophisticated and powerful...
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NSA Still Warrantlessly Wiretapping Americans
August 30, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
There’s long been ample evidence the NSA has been unlawfully collecting Americans' communications since the passage of the FISA Amendments Act. As the New York Times reported in 2009, the NSA was still collecting purely domestic communications of Americans' in a "significant and systemic" way...
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These Drones are Made for Watchin'
August 19, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The public has been pushing back on broad use of drones by law enforcement. At the request of reporters, advocacy organizations and city councils, public agencies have been required to justify their drone purchases and develop clear policies on when and under what conditions they will use drones for surveillance...
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FinFisher: The Cyber Espionage Tool Found Everywhere
August 15, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
FinFisher is a powerful cyber espionage agent developed by the Gamma Group that is able to secretly spy on a target's computers, intercepting communications, recording every keystroke and taking complete control of the host. The spyware was developed for law enforcement and government use...
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A Victory Over Cyber Spying
August 04, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Congress has been working to pass cybersecurity legislation for years – and EFF has fought to ensure that civil liberties weren’t sacrificed in the process. This year was the hardest: Congress got closer than ever to enacting a bill that could threaten the privacy of online communications. We fought back...
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Ad Biz Disregards User Choices to Safeguard "Cybersecurity"
July 19, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Senator Rockefeller was skeptical about the industry’s claims that they needed to engage in pervasive tracking for cybersecurity purposes. He stated: “I just want to declare the whole cybersecurity matter a total red herring.” We agree that strong cybersecurity does not necessitate surveillance of our browsing habits...
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- Five Things Your InfoSec Team Should Do in the Next 30 Days
- The Disclosure Debate Continues….. (part 1,453, 769) to be Continued
- The Danger of Mixing Cyber Espionage with Cyber Warfare
- Improving Security by Failing Faster
- BYOD: Should It Be the Wave of the Future?
- Trend Micro Discovers "SafeNet" - a New Targeted Espionage Operation Online
- Managing My Company’s Security is a Nightmare
- Bridging the Cybersecurity Divide, Why Security Innovation Must Lead the Way
- The Evolution of Industrial Control System Information Sharing
- ATM Security (And Really Learning from the Past)