Spy The Spy - Monitor Folders For File Changes And Additions
I was always puzzled that Microsoft did not integrate a software into Windows that would monitor specific folders for file changes and list the changes in a table to provide the user with means to analyze those changes.
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14.10.2008 Google Earth Used as a Spy Satellite?
The homicide detectives from the Melbourne department have recently started investigating a murder case, which seems to be taken out of a thriller that cannot be broadcasted before midnight. The body was found wrapped in plastic bags and dumped in the front yard of an empty Melbourne house that had an overgrown lawn, which covered the body all too well.
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13.12.2007 Microsoft Updates the Default Spy Tool in Vista SP1
In order to improve the quality of the software information collected from the users' operating systems and sent to Microsoft, the Redmond company introduced an update to the spy tool included by default into every copy of Windows Vista, following the release of Service Pack 1.
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13.6.2008Group Sees Spy Threat in
Lenovo PCs
Citing fears of espionage, the
US-China Economic and Security
Review Commission (USCC) said
Monday it would call for a
probe into the plans for
Lenovo to supply 15,000
computers to the U.S. State
Department. The USCC said the
computers could be bugged to
spy on the U.S. government...
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28.03.2006Canada unmasks Chinese spy network
Researchers at the University of Toronto traced pieces of malicious code found on more than 1,200 computers worldwide and discovered that it
originated from China. The Globe and Mail reported that the software had tapped into top secret documents from governments in 103 countries. Most
troubling was the discovery of said software on the computers of Tibetan exiles, leading to the presumption that a goal of this spy campaign was to
acquire information regarding the Dalai Lama. The spy network, dubbed "GhostNet" was uncovered by Canadian researches at the Munk Institute for
International Studies in the University of Toronto. The researchers have notified international intelligence agencies and it is presumed that further
investigation is being undertaken.
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31.03.2009Pentagon admits to having spy satellites
The Pentagon has gone on record to officially say that they do have satellites that spy on other satellites. The Mitex micro-satellites, which were
launched in 2006 have been flying around in the geostationary ring and have made observations of the DSP 23. DSP 23 is a satellite that can monitor
missile launches but went offline shortly after reaching orbit. The UN was particularly upset about the idea of satellites that can track and in
theory destroy other satellites. The UN also pointed out that China may be interested in the news as the US has criticized the country and its
leaders for a lack of transparency.
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26.01.2009F-Secure slams mobile spying application
Antivirus company F-Secure has severely criticised the security of a mobile spying application.
The Finnish security company said
that Retina-X Studios' Mobile Spy is "not built to be secure".
Mobile Spy is an application aimed at businesses wishing to
monitor their employees' Windows Mobile smartphone traffic. The full text of SMS messages can be recorded and logged to a "private account"
accessible by the business, as well as incoming and outgoing call numbers, and the URLs of websites visited.
F-Secure claims to
have found a way that anyone can access those private accounts. The antivirus company said that, if a user logs in to the Mobile Spy demonstration
account, and goes to view SMS logs, there are demonstration samples from a database of messages...
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02.10.2007I Spy the Windows Vista SP1 x64 Full DVD (integrated)
Keith Combs: The Windows Vista SP1 x64 .ISO file is now online in the TechNet Subscriber Downloads center. It's the fully integrated SP1 thus
allowing you to install the operating system from scratch. Although it says English, it's my understanding it includes French, German, Japanese and
Spanish as well.
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29.02.2008I spy the Windows Vista SP1 x86 Full DVD (integrated)
Keith Combs: Windows Vista SP1 x86 (FULL) is now on the TechNet Subscriber download center. It's the 32bit fully integrated version of the
OS. I just downloaded it, burned a DVD and have the install running in a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine. Finally!!!
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26.02.2008Newest spy gadget: social networking
As spy gear goes, a social-networking Web site doesn't quite have the same cachet as some of James Bond's high-tech gadgets.
But the U.S. intelligence community is taking a page from popular online hangouts like Facebook and News Corp.'s MySpace to help encourage
operatives to share information. In December, agency leaders are launching a social-networking site just for spooks.
The
classified "A-Space" ultimately will grow to include blogs, searchable databases, libraries of reports, collaborative word processing and other
tools to help analysts quickly trade, update and edit information.
It comes on the heels of the year-old Intellipedia, a Web site
modeled after the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Intellipedia has been gaining traction among the intelligence agencies and already has nearly
30,000 posted articles and 4,800 edits added every workday...
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06.09.2007Hack turns iPhone into spy-phone
US security consultant, Rick Farrow, has used H D Moore's security testing tool,
Metasploit, to crack the iPhone, which
allows a hacker to control an iPhone remotely.
Farrow demonstrated how he gained root access to the iPhone and installed an
application that can record conversations on and near the iPhone, transforming the device into a spy tool. It also allowed him to remotely access
recently modified files, locally stored e-mails and view the iPhone's Web browsing history.
"Using a specially crafted Web page
utilising an iPhone exploit (now patched) he gained root level shell access to the phone -- which means he could do anything that the iPhone is
capable of from his laptop," explained
Jarno Niemelä, security
researcher for the security vendor, F-Secure.
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22.11.2007Spyware bill's chances uncertain in Senate
An antispyware bill that the
U.S. House of Representatives
passed this week earned praise
from cybersecurity groups, but
faces an uncertain future in
the Senate. The bill, which
would create penalties of up
to five years in prison for
some spyware-like behavior, is
a "needed piece of
legislation in order to
protect consumers," said
Kevin Richards, federal
government relations manager
for Symantec Corp. Many online
identity theft schemes start
with spyware on a victim's
computer, he said.
Though versions of the
Internet Spyware Prevention
Act (I-SPY) have passed
through the House in the last
two sessions of Congress, they
stalled in the Senate. The
House passed I-SPY and a
second spyware bill in May
2005. But the Senate failed to
act, partly because of
concerns that the second
proposal, called the Securely
Protect Yourself Against Cyber
Trespass Act or SPY Act, too
broadly defined spyware. The
Senate Commerce, Science and
Transportation Committee also
became hung up on what
approach to take for a spyware
bill -- a criminal penalties
approach similar to I-SPY or a
broader approach attempting to
define spyware technologies
similar to the second House
bill.
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26.05.2007Security Startups Score Cash
"Now pay attention, 007!"
In the James Bond novels and films, it fell to technical expert Q to invent the gizmos and cunningly
concealed weapons that helped the British spy cheat death and save the world.
From a biometric keyboard to blast-proof curtains,
the inventions on display in the real world this month came from five technology firms in the final round of the Global Security Challenge, a
competition to identify the world's most promising security startup.
"I'm sorry that Q wasn't at the judging table," said
Sir Richard Dearlove, who from 1999-2004 was the real-life Cthe code-name given to the head of British spy service MI6.
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26.11.2007DOJ to Release Secret Spy Program Docs
The Justice Department has
acquiesced to Congressional
demands to provide more
details on the controversial
spying program, with Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales
agreeing to hand over secret
documents to the Senate
Judiciary Committee...
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01.02.2007Intel Quad-Core Notebook Spy Shot
TechwareLabs claims to
have acquired a spy shot of an
Intel quad core enabled
notebook that boasts
compatibility with the 8XXX
Nvidia cards and much
more.
This
laptop will supposedly support
dual 8800 Video cards, a 17"
screen and chassis, two
internal Hard Drives up to
160GB each, and the new quad
core Intel CPU all using a 975
chipset.
We don't
think the cooling solution is
up to the task of cooling that
amount of heat but time will
tell.
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19.05.2007NVIDIA G80 Spy Pics
Want to know what
NVIDIA's G80 card will
look like? These pictures have
been verified to be two of the
upcoming models of
NVIDIA's next-gen GPU.
Note the two six-pin power
connectors and water cooler on
one of the cards. This goes a
long ways to confirm all of
the 300 watt consumption
rumors that have been
circulating...
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06.10.2006Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software
Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker’s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence.
The Times has seen a patent application filed by the company for a computer system that links workers to their computers via wireless
sensors that measure their metabolism. The system would allow managers to monitor employees’ performance by measuring their heart rate, body
temperature, movement, facial expression and blood pressure. Unions said they fear that employees could be dismissed on the basis of a
computer’s assessment of their physiological state.
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16.01.2008UK to invest in massive 'spy' database
Something you would have thought would only be part of action movies may be a reality soon in the UK. The government has plans to create a massive
database that will store all phone calls, emails, and internet logs of all UK citizens. The information can be stored for as long as 2 years.
The database will take time to create, but there are trials and tests set in place with pre-determined people.
This is a feasible
solution to solving criminal cases, and lowering crime rates, however, many will see it as a very large invasion of privacy.
UK
Home Office minister, Lord West, noted:
"It is a cross-government program, led by the Home Office, to ensure that our capability to lawfully
intercept and exploit data when fighting crime and terrorism is not lost."
I would like to hear you opinions, Neowin. In an act to ensure
safety, is this action taking it too far?
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20.08.2008China to block Web sites, snoop on hotel guests during Olympics
Amidst admissions by Olympics officials that China will block journalists' access to "sensitive Web sites" during the summer games in
Beijing, a US senator is charging that authorities also plan to spy on foreign guests staying in Chinese hotels...
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30.07.2008Webroot: Vista's Defender stops 16% of 25 Spyware Samples
According to the results of a
two-week study of Windows
Defender by Webroot, a leading
antispyware vendor and
Microsoft competitor, the
product missed 84% of a sample
set of 25 spyware, Trojan
horse programs and keyloggers.
Many of the samples were
unable to install on Vista and
simply crashed, but others got
through just fine. Webroot's
Spy Sweeper product spotted
all of the samples.
Gerhard Eschelbeck, Chief
Technology Officer at Webroot,
said the point of the study
was not to draw specific
conclusions. He acknowledged
that 25 samples was a tiny
fraction and that it may be
possible for Microsoft or
other competitors to pick
samples of malicious code that
would evade Webroot's Spy
Sweeper. " It's important
to leave the interpretation up
to individuals. People need to
make their own conclusions
about it ," he said.
Eschelbeck noted that
Microsoft should update
Windows Defender quicker than
on a weekly basis. Webroot has
been hurt by Microsoft's
entry into the desktop and
enterprise security business
and the company's decision to
offer Windows Defender as a
free download.
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26.01.2007FTC: More spyware-fighting tools needed
Organizations and law enforcement agencies fighting spyware are making progress, but new tools in an antispyware bill stalled in the U.S. Congress
could improve the efforts, a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday.
One of the spyware bills passed by the
House of Representatives earlier this year, the
Spy Act, would
give the FTC authority to impose civil fines on companies that distribute spyware to consumers' computers. The bill, along with the Internet Spyware
Prevention (or
I-SPY) Act, have
stalled in the Senate since passing
the House in May and June.
The FTC has the authority to collect profits from spyware operations and collect money for consumer
redress, but it lacks the authority to impose other fines, as it does when going after spammers, said Commissioner Jon Leibowitz, speaking at a
spyware forum in Washington, D.C.
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30.10.2007Windows Vista with SP1 integrated on MSDN
Keith Combs is
reporting that images of Windows Vista with SP1 already baked in are appearing on MSDN TechNet subscriber downloads. After
checking myself, I find that only the English, French, German, Japanese & Spanish x86 versions are available thus far. Maybe they are still updating
and the x64 versions will start appearing in a few, more on that later folks.
Keith is clearly ecstatic: "My download took minutes. Being
first helps. It flew down the fiber pipe to my house at 1.8meg per second. I wish all my downloads were that fast. Your mileage will vary. I'm
planning on "enhancing" my VM first thing. I'm going to enable IIS7, then drop PHP, MySQL and Wordpress on it. When I get it working, I am
going to do a screencast on the process. Getting ready to record how to do that with Windows Server 2008 in a few minutes. Enjoy!"
He
also mentions that the blog post is a rolling update, later he will post some more screencasts of the resulting installation. Thanks Keith!
Update: Microsoft have posted an announcement regarding the SP1 images availability on it's MSDN subscriber download sites: "The first wave
includes English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish versions of Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. New files will be added every couple days,
depending on server bandwidth, until all downloads are published."
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26.02.2008Wi-fi security system is 'broken'
More holes have been picked in the security measure designed to protect the privacy and data of wi-fi users.
The latest attack
lets criminals defeat firewalls and spy on where someone goes and what they do online. It comes after a series of other attacks that, experts say,
have left the basic protection in wi-fi comprehensively "broken".
But compatibility issues mean that many will have no
alternative but to use the much weakened protection system.
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