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FDA whistleblowers say government retaliated with spyware
A group of former FDA scientists who spoke out against the agency’s allegedly flawed device-approval process are suing the feds for intercepting Gmail and Yahoo Mail messages by installing spy programs on their work computers. Although the computers were owned by the government, the plaintiffs say they were explicitly granted…
FBI spyware not Skype responsible for spilling MegaUpload secrets
FBI investigators may have infected MegaUpload‘s computers with spyware so as to monitor Skype and email messaging, it’s been suggested, with sources within the Microsoft-owned VoIP company claiming it was not asked to turn over conversation logs. Multiple chat records were included by the FBI within its case against MegaUpload…
Feds May Have Monitored Megaupload Skype Chats Via Spyware
El FBI ‘pinchó’ e-mails y chats de los trabajadores de Megaupload en Skype vía El FBI “pinchó” e-mails y chats del personal de Megaupload en Skype: Antes del cierre de Megaupload, agentes del… tdotsociety: FBI used MegaUpload Skype conversations to build its case http://t.co/zZHY5M5I http://t.co/KKZK5WFO Article source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/02/feds-may-have-monitored-m_n_1249767.html View full…
ZookaWare Registry Cleaner, Spyware Removal and Backup Products Break 2010 Holiday Sales Records
ZookaWare registry cleaner, spyware removal and backup products break 2010 holiday sales records. Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) January 31, 2012 ZookaWare registry cleaner, spyware removal and backup products break 2010 holiday sales records. The conclusion of the 2011 holiday season shows that it was a good year for ZookaWare’s suite of…
Spies Fail to Escape Spyware at ‘Wiretapper’s Ball’
December 29, 2011, 6:43 PM EST By Vernon Silver Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) — The intelligence operative sits in a leather club chair, laptop open, one floor below the Hilton Kuala Lumpur’s convention rooms, scanning the airwaves for spies. In the salons above him, merchants of electronic interception demonstrate their gear…
Carrier IQ’s MSIP: Spyware according to some
Smart phones and associated apps are coming under increased scrutiny from privacy groups. Still, software from Carrier IQ – Mobile Service Intelligence Platform (MSIP) – escaped their watchful eye. What’s more, the “who’s who” of telecom providers – except Verizon — have been using MSIP since 2006. That tidbit was…
Montco man who put spyware on father’s computer gets probation
A Pottstown man convicted of putting spyware on his father’s computer to capture passwords to e-mail accounts was sentenced Wednesday to two years’ probation. Parth Ingle, 25, installed the program in an effort to find out if his father, Arunkumar, was having an affair. The elder Ingle was later found…
Top German cop uses spyware on daughter, gets hacked in retaliation
Trojans—they’re not just for hackers anymore. German police, for instance, love them; a scandal erupted in Parliament last year after federal investigators were found to be using custom spyware that could potentially record far more information than allowed by law. The story made headlines, but it lacked a certain sense…
Israeli Spyware Sold To Iran
Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by Western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally “the database”, was originally the computer file of the thousands of…