Collaborate Disseminate
The dead drops were very James Bond: once, the data mule taped the SD card to the underside of a desk in a hotel. Continue reading Tour guide/Chinese spy gets four years for SD card dead drops
More than one billion mobile users are at risk from a SIM card flaw being currently exploited by threat actors, researchers warn. Continue reading 1B Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack
A legal challenge to the UK’s controversial mass surveillance regime has revealed shocking failures by the main state intelligence agency, which has broad powers to hack computers and phones and intercept digital communications, in handling people’s information. The challenge, by rights group Liberty, led last month to an initial finding that MI5 had systematically breached …
Continue reading “Liberty’s challenge to UK state surveillance powers reveals shocking failures”
Continue reading Liberty’s challenge to UK state surveillance powers reveals shocking failures
Threat-hunters say the breached data from the massive Equifax incident is nowhere to be found, indicating a spy job. Continue reading Where’s the Equifax Data? Does It Matter?
There are no permission dialogues for apps in certain folders for macOS Mojave, which allows a malicious app to spy on browsing histories.. Continue reading Unpatched Apple macOS Hole Exposes Safari Browsing History
“Our advice is to stop using this watch” as mitigations are not available, researchers told Threatpost. Continue reading Connected Wristwatch Allows Hackers to Stalk, Spy On Children
Shelan Faith got a “terrifying” letter warning her that a stranger could see her, her child’s room, and people ringing her doorbell through her home security cameras. Continue reading A Mixup Let a Stranger Watch a Woman Through Her Security Cameras
Much has been made about the presence of a “Chinese spy” in the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and how he worked for her for about 20 years. The staffer has been identified by multiple media outlets as Russell Lowe, who was employed in the… Continue reading The Chinese Spy, or a Dupe in the Senator’s Office?
When it comes to surveillance, why let the government have all the fun? This tiny spy transmitter is just the thing you need to jumpstart your recreational espionage efforts.
We kid, of course — you’ll want to stay within the law of the land if you choose to build [TomTechTod]’s diminutive transmitter. Barely bigger than the 337 button cell that powers it, the scrap of PCB packs a fair number of surface mount components, most in 0201 packages. Even so, the transmitter is a simple design, with a two transistor audio stage amplifying the signal from the MEMS microphone and …read more
Continue reading Tiny Transmitter Brings Out the Spy Inside You
Roberto Escobar launched “Dietbitcoin” and released a 280-page memoir. Continue reading Pablo Escobar’s Brother Says He Met an FBI Agent Posing As Satoshi Nakamoto