surveillance

Nowadays the proverb “the walls have ears” is not as metaphoric as it used to be. “The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level

Recent news about IP cameras being hacked and private footage sold unlawfully online has bestirred the Internet yet again. Such headlines are now unsurprising; however, one new case has a sensitive twist:

In one of the previous installments of our GSM saga we mentioned an urban legend of hijacking encryption keys on the fly. It presupposes someone can clone your SIM card

Surveillance cameras are everywhere today: outdoors and indoors, at airports, railroad stations, offices, and shops. You cannot escape the all-seeing eye of the cameras even in the wild, making George

Local governments and law enforcement are becoming increasingly more reliant on networked surveillance cameras in order to monitor densely populated urban areas. London is a notorious example of urban surveillance,

World nations are building fleets of unmanned robotic boats to perform missions above, on and under the water. Though there are only a few hundred unmanned maritime vessels in operation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently graded a slew of mobile and Internet messaging services based on security and privacy. Here we list the low scorers.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently graded a slew of mobile and Internet messaging services based on security and privacy. Here we detail the top scorers.

In the news this week: more APT campaigns, a look forward at the DEF CON and Black Hat Hacker conferences, and good and bad news for Facebook.

In the news: Microsoft’s No-IP takedown fiasco, Chinese APT groups curious about U.S. Iraq policy, Verizon says the government wants locations data, and Microsoft denies backdoor insinuations.