BALTIMORE (AP) — A former senior spy agency official who admitted giving inside information to the Baltimore Sun about a major government electronic espionage program was given a year’s probation and community service Friday, in a blow to the Obama Administration’s crackdown on leaks to the media.
By on 19/07/2011
Fired up … Maroons coach Mal Meninga. Photo: Getty Images
THE revelations of phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World newspaper resurrected memories for a couple of executives of the media magnate’s Super League.
When officials of the News Ltd-funded rugby league organisation reported for work one Monday morning in 1995 at their headquarters in Elizabeth Street, Sydney, they found a small group of technicians busy near their desks.
Told they were ”sweepers”, the league men surveyed the offices, considered them neat and tidy and wondered why they needed vacuuming.
But there wasn’t a Hoover in sight, although J. Edgar Hoover, the old FBI chief, would have felt comfortable in the environment.
By on 18/07/2011
TBILISI, Georgia – The last of three photographers charged with espionage confessed Saturday to spying for Russia, Georgia’s Interior Ministry said — a claim that surprised the photographer’s own lawyer.
Ramaz Chinchaladze, lawyer for photographer Georgy Abdaladze, said his client insisted on his innocence in a meeting just ten minutes before the reported confession.
By on 18/07/2011
The Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, which consists of lawmakers who are tasked with monitoring British spying apparatus, said in a report that the UK intelligence is suffering a steady loss of Internet experts to the private sector because the likes of Google and Microsoft offer much higher wages, British media reported.
By on 18/07/2011
Shoulder surfing, the simple act of leering over a computer users’ shoulder to spy on passwords and other sensitive info, may not seem like the most advanced hacker trick. But when it comes to shoulder surfing Apple’s iPad, Haroon Meerhas it down to a science.
Earlier this week, the South African security researcher announced that he’d built shoulderPad, an app for Mac OS, jailbroken iPhones and iPads that’s designed to auto-snoop on iPad users’ passwords by watching their touchscreen keyboards. Simply pretend to be fiddling with your phone or tablet a few meters away from an iPad user while he or she enters their PIN or password, and shoulderPad can uses your device’s camera to read and interpret the target’s keystrokes.
By on 16/07/2011