GCHQ’s Karma Police program followed “suspicious” Web searches around the globe and profiled each and every Internet user According to the documents published by The Intercept, it disclosed that the United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has been tracking World Wide Web users since 2007, with an operation called “Karma…
Your Android phone’s battery life could allow it to be tracked across different sites
A feature belonging to the HTML5 Battery Status API allows a website to know how much battery life is remaining on a device being used to visit it. The feature reveals battery life remaining for devices using the Chrome, Firefox or the Opera browsers. Among the data revealed by the…
Public disruption trick laptop tracked down by the security agencies
The police handed down a smartphone and three laptops when they heard some faux shooting at the house. The complaint was made to the Triple 0 website very early in the morning right after the shots fired. A teenager was arrested and he surrendered in front of the police without…
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ProtectMyID: Key to protecting privacy is the ability to #optout of being tracked. Learn more about what the #FTC envisions. http://t.co/Hf2IIaIq
ProtectMyID: Key to protecting privacy is the ability to #optout of being tracked. Learn more about what the #FTC envisions. http://t.co/Hf2IIaIq View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
Copper cable thieves tracked by new BT alarm system
BT has deployed an alarm across its entire copper network in attempt to reduce the rising rate of cable theft. The technology, entitled Rapid Assessment BT Incident Tracker (RABIT), has been developed by BT and allows it to constantly monitor signals across the network, which when disrupted indicate foul play,…
Mobile users easily tracked through GSM network leaks
GSM cellular networks leak enough location data to give third-parties secret access to cellphone users’ whereabouts, according to new research from the US. “We have shown that there is enough information leaking from the lower layers of the GSM communication stack to enable an attacker to perform location tests on…
UK security forces tracked car of alleged IRA man
British anti-terror agents tracked an alleged Irish Republican Army dissident by planting an electronic surveillance device on his car, a prosecutor said Monday at the start of the trial of two men charged with murdering a policeman. View full post on could security – Yahoo! News Search Results View full…
Middletown man tracked woman with smart phone spyware, police say
CRAWFORD — Town of Crawford police have charged a Middletown man with multiple felonies after they said he installed spyware on a Pine Bush woman’s smart phone, accessed all her data and tracked her movements. View full post on spyware jail – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on…
Pak apex court website hacker tracked
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN: The hacker, who defaced the website of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, has been tracked, authorities said. The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cyber crime wing traced the hacker, reported Dawn. View full post on federal hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security