FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool
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Agency used novel surveillance technique on alleged Mafioso: activating his cell phone's microphone and then just listening.
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The global nature of the Internet is posing new challenges to law enforcement agencies like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. In response, the FBI is reaching out to new partners, both in the private sector and in the international community, to help fight online identity thieves, computer hijackers, and other digital desperadoes known as &quot;botherders.&quot; The ongoing effort has been dubbed &quot;Operation Bot Roast.&quot;
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A Justice Department investigation has found pervasive errors in the FBI's use of its power to secretly demand telephone, e-mail and financial records in national security cases, officials with access to the report said yesterday.
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A new federal court decision turns your cell phone into a location-tracking device that law enforcement can access, even if you're not suspected of committing a crime. Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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The hacking and identity theft tools now  earning big money for mainly eastern European organized crime  could be used by terrorists to attack the United States, an FBI  official said on Wednesday.
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German police have long expressed interest in having surveillance tools that could crack Skype, but leaked documents seem to indicate that thanks to specially commissioned malware, they do indeed have ways of making your VoIP talk.
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MILAN, Italy -- In an age of spy satellites, security cameras and an Internet that stores every keystroke, terrorism suspects are using simple, low-tech tricks to cloak their communications, making life difficult for authorities who had hoped technology would give them the upper hand.
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An organization in Mumbai, India has proposed that police use key-logging software at cybercafis to keep track of communications between terrorists.
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A cell phone directory is in the works, along with legislation to keep it private. Is this a good thing?
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A secret listening device found at the Geneva offices of the United Nations was in a room adjoining a main conference hall, where it could have been used to eavesdrop on any private conversations, the global body said Friday.
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The FBI, working with an Alaska oil contractor, secretly taped telephone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens as part of a public corruption sting, according to people close to the investigation.
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InfoWorld - An organization in Mumbai, India has proposed that police use key-logging software at cybercaf&#233;s to keep track of communications between terrorists.
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The FBI was acting illegally when it used the USA Patriot Act to covertly obtain telephone, business and financial records about people living in the United States, according to an audit by the Justice Department. By the Associated Press.
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The bureau e-mails the special software to a targeted individual, and the program reports back to an FBI server in Virginia.
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(InfoWorld) - An organization in Mumbai, India has proposed that police use key-logging software at cybercafÃ©s to keep track of communications between terrorists. Public computers at cybercafes offer terrorists the anonymity they require, said Vijay Mukhi, president of the Foundation for Information Security and Technology (FIST) in Mumbai in a telephone interview late Tuesday. Terrorists are known to use instant messengers (IM) from companies like Microsoft and Yahoo, and these companies do not share information from IM chats with the police, he added. Keyloggers are software on a computer that record a user's key strokes -- whatever the user types -- on a computer keyboard. Data from keyloggers will be uploaded to centralized servers where it will be available to the police for scrutiny. The move does not as yet have the approval of the Mumbai police. The keyloggers would be activated centrally as and when a suspect walks into a cyber cafÃ© or when suspicious activity is noted, Mukhi said. A number of bloggers have criticized Mukhi's proposal, saying it will put personal data of ordinary individuals at risk. But some other blogs said that it is too small a price to pay to protect against loss of life from terrorism. The police should put in place a mechanism for citizens to seek redress from any misuse of their private information, Mukhi said. Bomb blasts by terrorists have killed a large number of people in the country. In July last year, seven bombs planted in Mumbai's suburban trains killed over 200 people and injured another 700. Terrorists are increasingly using the Internet to communicate with one another, as they are aware that telephone and mobile phones connections are under Indian government surveillance, according to Mukhi. FIST, a non-profit organization in Mumbai, is focused onÂ cybersecurityÂ and has worked with the police on related issues. It aims to get keyloggers on computers in cybercafes throughout India, Mukhi said.
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Here's how nontechnical users can secure their own instant-messaging conversations such that an attacker is unable to listen in (be it the government or a nosy neighbor).
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Complex interception laws confuse Feds and ISPs An internal audit has discovered that the FBI overstepped the mark in intercepting communication records at least 1,000 times since 2002.â¦