Satellite phone encryption cracked by German researchers

German researchers claim they have found weaknesses in two commonly-used satellite encryption protocols that could render them vulnerable to eavesdropping in real time. In the paper titled Don’t Trust Satellite Phones (currently available only as an abstract), Benedikt Driessen and Ralf Hund of Ruhr University describe how they reverse engineered…

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‘Anonymous’ Publishes Confidential FBI Phone Call

Internet activist group Anonymous published a recording of a confidential call between FBI agents and London detectives in which the law-enforcement agents discuss action they are taking against hacking. British police said they were investigating reports of the illegally recorded call, and the FBI said a criminal investigation was under…

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Phone Hacker Must Reveal Who at News Corp. Gave Instructions, Court Rules

Enlarge image Ex-Private Investigator Glenn Mulcaire Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Ex-private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. Ex-private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. Photographer: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Glenn Mulcaire, the ex-private investigator who hacked into celebrities’ voice mails for News Corp. (NWSA)’s News of the World, lost a U.K. appeal to avoid giving “incriminating” evidence in…

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