Austria OKs terror snooping Trojan plan
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Silly idea gains steam Austria has become one of the first countries to officially sanction the use of Trojan Horse malware as a tactic for monitoring the PCs of suspected terrorists and criminals.â¦
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Extra police officers and crossing guards will be on hand to help parents and their children feel safe when schools reopen next week in Austria, which is still reeling over revelations that a schoolgirl spent 8 1/2 years imprisoned in an underground cell.
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Radical Islamist group al Qaeda plans to carry out attacks in Germany, a senior German intelligence official was quoted as saying on Friday.
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The governmentâs ability to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists overseas led to the arrests of three militants accused of planning attacks in Germany.
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A German proposal to deploy "trojan horse" software to secretly monitor potential terror suspects' hard drives sparks fierce debate over whether the measures violate civil liberties.
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Australia and the Philippines sign a security deal aimed at cracking down on regional terror groups.
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Conservative government is backing a proposal allowing authorities to transmit Trojans to suspects through official-looking e-mails. Opposition parties and privacy advocates cry foul.
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The European Commission is to draw up plans to bolster co-operation in the fight against terror.
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A law allowing security officials in Germany to create the largest and most comprehensive pool of personal data ever amassed in the country goes into effect Thursday as the European Union's largest member state moves to protect itself against possible terrorist attacks.
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Chancellor Merkel seeks to boost surveillance after a plot to bomb German trains was foiled.
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"These attacks came directly from the IP address of the (Russian) president's office"  Estonia will propose at a meeting of European Union justice ministers next week that the bloc consider cyber attacks as "acts of terror", Estonian Justice Minister Rein Lang said Thursday. via Baku Today
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Globe and Mail Update and Associated Press Austrian police have provided Canadian officials with more than 100 Internet addresses as part of a massive child pornography bust spanning 77 countries and including ...Comment
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The interior ministers of the Commonwealth Independent States (CIS) member states on Saturday approved a joint anti-terrorism plan for 2005, the Interfax news agency reported.
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China offers to help track down the Chinese hackers who broke into German computers.
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Hackers may want to avoid Germany, after the approval of a law that makes their activity a punishable crime.
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(InfoWorld) - Germany's High Court has handed down a landmark decision banning police from installing spyware on computers of suspected criminals without their knowledge. The decision, announced Monday, is a blow to the plans of the German Interior Minister Wolfgang SchÃ¤uble to give the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) greater power to monitor terrorists and other criminals online, and peek inside their computers. Two other federal judges had differed over whether police should be able to hack into the computers of suspected criminals and install spyware. In February, one judge approved police hacking. But another barred the practice in November, resulting in an appeal by federal prosecutors. The High Court in Karlsruhe argued that searching computers is similar to searching homes, a practice in Germany that requires police to follow certain procedures, such as obtaining a search warrant and informing suspected offenders of a search. The judges also argued that hacking computers by the police is not permitted under Germany's strict phone-tapping laws and that legislation would be needed to enable covert surveillance. Last year, SchÃ¤uble persuaded the German pParliament to approve â¬132 million ($171 million) for his Program for Strengthening Domestic Security. As part of the program, the BKA would have been allowed to penetrate and monitor PCs of suspected offenders in Germany via the Internet. The program also calls for greater use of video cameras in public places, biometric systems and other new security technologies, as well as the establishment of an "Internet Monitoring and Analysis Office."
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The EU announces proposals for biometric fingerprinting of visitors from outside the European Union arriving at its borders.