Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Criminals in Italy are increasingly making phone calls over the internet in order to avoid getting caught through mobile phone intercepts.
Milan police say organised crime, arms & drugs traffickers, & prostitution rings are turning to Skype to frustrate investigators.
The police say Skype’s encryption system is a secret which the company refuses to share with the authorities.
Investigators have become increasingly reliant on wiretaps in recent years.
They overheard a suspected cocaine trafficker telling an accomplice to switch to Skype in order to get details of a 2kg drug consignment.
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
The research into the web habits of 20,000 14 to 19-year-olds across Europe found that 51% enjoy unfettered access to any and every website.
The MSN research also found that 29% of the teenagers it quizzed have suffered bullying while using the web.
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
The Nato Security Office says that:
Everyone is struggling to deal with lots of cyber espionage going on.
There has been more than one incidence of Nato officials being socially profiled, and then subjected to “targeted trojans“. The unseen adversaries gather as much information as possible about the individual then send them an email purporting to come from a friend or a relative.
If they open the attachment then a sophisticated “worm” or “trojan” can, in theory, take over their computer, scan its files, send them on, delete them, or perhaps most damagingly, alter them without the user knowing.
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