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Hackers Accuse India of Using RIM and Apple to Spy on US Congress Body

The hacker collective called 'Lords of Dharamraja', the ones that allegedly obtained the source code of Symantec’s Endpoint Security and AntiVirus products, also leaked a document that revealed how the Indian government cunningly convinced Research in Motion (RIM), Nokia and Apple to help them spy on ...

11 January 2012
09:59 GMT

Iranian TV Says Kuma Games Is Propaganda Arm of US Government

A number of television networks in Iran have implied that a video game developer in the United States, Kuma Games, is actually a propaganda arm of the United States government, given the job of actually making titles based on US history that prop up the version of the state.Amir Mirza Hekmati, who is saying that...

21 December 2011
09:05 GMT

Company Encourages OS 3.2 Jailbreak to Get Spy App on iPads

A company called Retina-X Studios, LLC has announced the first spy software for the iPad, Mobile Spy, a hybrid software/service that allows users to silently monitor an iPad in real time. Great for parents looking to keep an eye on their kids’ activities, the software allows users to silently view all email mes...

6 May 2010
10:39 GMT

Brandon Routh Lands Part in ‘Chuck’

Brandon Routh shot to international fame with the 2006 “Superman” reboot, but has been keeping a relatively low profile since that release and especially when critics and fans turned on him, saying part of the reason the film failed was his poor performance as the Man of Steel. Fans of the actor will now ...

28 August 2009
09:28 GMT

TF2 Gets Dual Update, Spy Receives New Weapons and Video

Team Fortress 2 is one of the most popular online games currently available on the market, largely due to the fact that the team at Valve has approached online first-person shooters in a very tongue-in-cheek manner, revealing a lot of amusing new trinkets for the many classes of the game. Last week we were shown som...

18 May 2009
03:21 GMT

Greenpeace Activist Proved to Be a Police Informer

Rob Gilchrist, a member of Greenpeace, has been working for the New Zealand police department since 1998, supplying them with data about environmental groups such as GP, Peace Action Wellington and the Vegan Balaclava Pixies, as well as anti-Iraq War groups, civil rights groups and other such organizations. His girlf...

15 December 2008
05:30 GMT

North Korean Mata Hari Spy Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

Won Jeong Hwa, a North Korean woman who posed as a defector, has been sentenced by a South Korean court to five years in prison for espionage. She was arrested in July, because as part of her civic duties to give anti-communism lectures in South Korean military bases, she engaged in a relationship with an officer who...

22 October 2008
08:20 GMT

Web Users at Risk of Being Spied Through Their Own Webcams and Microphones

Adobe has released an advisory that describes the Flash Player vulnerability, which previously prompted security researchers Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen to halt the disclosure of technical details regarding clickjacking attacks. According to the advisory, by using clickjacking techniques, an attacker can gain...

8 October 2008
11:03 GMT

Filming Women in Toilets with a Camera Phone Gets You Arrested

In the vast history of mankind, there have been lots of weird reasons for a person to be arrested. In the more recent "history of mankind using cell phones" there might have also been curious circumstances that got someone deprived of their liberty after improperly using a handset. It was one of these circumstances t...

13 June 2008
06:38 GMT

Crippled Satellite Left Little Debris

Good news for NASA Orbital Debris Program Office. The destruction of the USA-193 spy satellite last month left a minimal field of debris in Earth's orbit, according to Rear Admiral Alan Hicks, responsible for the Pentagon's Aegis ballistic missile defense program. In the outcome of the report release, Admir...

20 March 2008
06:56 GMT

Obsidian Announces New RPG Project

There's a new super spy game in the making. And it's gonna be Obsidian creating the gadgets and the suits. Obsidian are best known for producing sequels for games like Knights of the Old Republic or Neverwinter Nights II, that BioWare did primary development on. The games were usually slick RPG experiences,...

12 March 2008
04:55 GMT

Fly 'Borgs' May Be Spying on Us as We Speak!

Well not really, because it's still cold outside. But just wait until summer, you'll see then; there will be flies and fly-spies all over the place, you won't be able to make the difference! Just kidding! Well, it seems that science fiction has given some 'mad' scientists new ideas, not that ...

10 March 2008
12:22 GMT

US Spy Satellite Most Likely to Fall in North America

On Tuesday, the U.S. military warned that a large spy satellite owned by the U.S. has lost power, is decaying its orbit and will most likely hit the Earth in the next two months or so. USA 193's size suggests that, as it will re-enter the atmosphere, it will not burn completely and some parts may end up of the s...

30 January 2008
02:57 GMT

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,...

13 December 2007
14:51 GMT

Are We Being Spied by Insect Robots?

In fairy tales, the characters turn into flies and get everywhere they want, listening to what's cooking behind any door. Now, when you say 'there are bugs in this room', you automatically send a message with double meaning, one of which is related to the new-generation devices. Lately, increasingly mo...

18 October 2007
13:06 GMT

Britain Needs Spies. Turns Its Attention Towards Gamers

The headline shouldn't surprise you one bit, since Britain's intelligence agencies have started to come out of the dark recently, with UK's MI6 having placed its first advertisement for jobs in a newspaper in May, also launching its own website, even accepting job applications online in recent years, a...

18 October 2007
07:04 GMT

Spy Pictures of Samsung SGH-J600E

Some new images of the Samsung SGH-J600E slider phone have just emerged, revealing a highly appealing design and a pleasant surprise coming from this producer. It's both elegant and fresh, although it perfectly continues the line of previous devices coming from Samsung.The number of slider phones that this mobi...

21 September 2007
11:32 GMT

Spying on Spies

As stated before, the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has been wiretapping communications on US soil and outside it for many years now, but only recently have they gone to such a high level of tapping as today. The call/message interception has a massive range now and is meant to lash out any enemy intel...

15 August 2007
16:11 GMT

Sony Ericsson K700i Spy Phone

Looks can be deceiving. The Sony Ericsson K700i in front of you may be more than a simple harmless mobile phone. It could be a device which records every single word you say and sends it to a number for someone to listen in real time. Scary thought.Any respectable spy will manage to turn apparently common objects int...

6 July 2007
06:15 GMT

The Invisible Spy: Racing Tyre Wireless Camera!

Straight from the Chinese secret laboratories, the 2.4Ghz hidden spy camera is a nifty looking racing tyre, 2.4Ghz receiver and MP4 player, all of them in the same device. So, it can be used in more ways that you have ever imagined, such as spying your mate or monitoring you teenage brat.Better yet, the manufacturers...

28 June 2007
04:13 GMT

US Cancel Spy Satellite Program

The director of US national intelligence stated this week that a multibillion-dollar spy satellite program has been canceled, but gave no reason for his recent decision. Mike McConnell is the spy chief that almost ventured into disclosing some juicy details about the mission, but, unfortunately for us, he stopped in...

22 June 2007
02:49 GMT

No One Lives Forever Cheats

Before creating the outstanding FPS F.E.A.R. or trying to do a good job with Matrix Online, the game developing team of Monolith Productions worked on the No One Lives Forever series (among others, of course, including Septerra Core). In No One Lives Forever, the UNITY operative Cate Archer (basically a female James ...

2 March 2007
04:11 GMT


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