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Paybacks are hell: Parental spying prompts infiltration of German police system

10

Jan

2012

Der Spiegel published a story in yesterday's edition of their magazine that the hack on the German police surveillance system "Patras" was prompted by a senior officer spying on his daughter's internet activities. The Patras system is used by the police to track suspects using so-called "silent" SMSs and GPS tracking devices planted on automobiles. […]

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Will the UK Cyber Security Strategy make a difference?

25

Nov

2011

The British government has today published its Cyber Security Strategy detailing how it plans to protect national security and the public from internet threats, and (hopefully) support the British economy at the same time. The UK’s government plan is to co-operate with the private sector in the fight against cybercrime, beef up the computer crime-fighting […]

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US SCADA infrastructure woefully unprotected

19

Nov

2011

It has been reported that a SCADA systems failure at a municipal water processing plant may have been caused by hackers infiltrating their network. The attackers were repeatedly turning a pump on and off until it caused the pump to fail, raising an alert to the operators. Upon investigation they determined that attackers may have […]

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