Your Smartphone Is Being Secretly Accessed—By Your Friends and Family
31 percent of respondents in a survey snooped in the past year. Continue reading Your Smartphone Is Being Secretly Accessed—By Your Friends and Family
Category Archives: snooping
Unknown ports shown on Nmap scan…and other strange behavior
My local network has been exhibiting some inexplicable behaviour.
Firstly connecting to my websites domain name from inside the lan redirected me to my router’s login page. I checked again with 3g and found that it didn’t h… Continue reading Unknown ports shown on Nmap scan…and other strange behavior
Can someone use WiFi snooping to see data I send through Tor Browser when I’m not using SSL?
(NOTE: I’ve read other similar questions, but I’m not at all certain about this, therefore I’m asking.)
I travel a lot, and I generally use public WiFi spots and hotels/hostels/boarding houses etc. access points.
I’m a reporter. Sometimes … Continue reading Can someone use WiFi snooping to see data I send through Tor Browser when I’m not using SSL?
(Theoretically) intercepting GCHQ’s smartphone exploit
In the lastest Snowden interview, it was revealed that GCHQ used an exploit sent via SMS to gain access to smartphones, and that this ‘exploit’ goes unnoticed to the handset user. I was wondering if it might be possible to somehow setup a … Continue reading (Theoretically) intercepting GCHQ’s smartphone exploit
Sniffing, Snooping, Spoofing
Could somebody please explain to me the differences between the following attacks?
sniffing
snooping
spoofing
My professors used them all in his documents, but I’m not sure, if those are 3 different attacks or just synonyms.
For security reasons, can I block ping response on my router without disabling my network?
I seem to have a serious problem of being attacked and after looking up the attack source, 99% come from China, then Korea, Hong Kong etc. Here is a fraction of the report from my Router, which is a Cisco WRVS4400N router.
1 2014-01-06… Continue reading For security reasons, can I block ping response on my router without disabling my network?