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​Crooks use old-school Conficker virus to infect police body cams – ZDNet


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​Crooks use old-school Conficker virus to infect police body cams
ZDNet
Numerous Android smartphones from China have been found to ship with malware, but a Florida-based network integrator now says it has bought police body cams containing a virus. Jarrett Pavao and Charles Auchinleck of the IT integrator iPower … A huge

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Police raid DroidJackers in international takedown – SC Magazine UK


SC Magazine UK

Police raid DroidJackers in international takedown
SC Magazine UK
Individuals involved with Droidjack – the application that allows you to spy on your Android-enabled family, friends, enemies and mistresses/paramours – days may be numbered. Police have raided the homes of those individuals across europe in what looks …
INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION AGAINST DROIDJACK MOBILE PHONE MALWARE Europol

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Police in alert over computer security – Belfast Telegraph

Police in alert over computer security
Belfast Telegraph
A senior detective in charge of the PSNI's Cyber Crime Centre has said a new UK survey should make everyone in Northern Ireland reassess their online security. Ads by Google. In a specially commissioned survey for Get Safe Online Week, starting today, …

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Germany will make telcos share customer data with the police

Even as the European Union attempts to tighten privacy laws, law-enforcement interests have won a battle in Germany: a new law forces communications service providers there to once again make data about their customers’ communications available to police.

On Friday morning, the German parliament approved a law requiring ISPs and mobile and fixed telecommunications operators to retain communications metadata for up to ten weeks.

The country has had an on-again, off-again affair with telecommunications data retention, first introducing a law requiring it in 2008 to comply with a European Union directive.

The German Federal Constitutional Court overturned that law in March 2010 after finding it conflicted with Germany’s privacy laws, prompting the European Commission to take the country to court in May 2012 to enforce the directive.

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