With the usual fanfare, Wikileaks fugitive-in-chief Julian Assange yesterday released the group's latest treasure trove of stolen secret documents: the CIA Vault 7 leak, comprising some 8,700 CIA documents describing, and in some cases providing specific code for, Zero Days, malware, Trojans, proxies and other forms of intrusive programs designed by the US's top intelligence … [Read more...]
Cobham IMSI Catchers In Last Place at Domo
A year has passed since £ 1.9 billion British defense contractor Cobham spun off its tactical comms and surveillance unit to private equity group Marlin Equity Partners of Los Angeles for US $10 million, a sum barely noticeable on either company's balance sheet. Shortly afterward, in April 2016, the old Cobham spyware division emerged as a new "standalone" company called Domo … [Read more...]
Italy’s iPS – From Lawful Intercept to Dark Web
Founded in the year 2000, iPS is one of two companies operated by the RESI Group, a holding company based in Aprilia, Italy. The other half is RESI, a network management systems and cybersecurity business that dates to 1987. The fraternal twins share a single campus in Aprilia, top global clients like Telecom Italia and Deutsche Telekom, and a sizable in-house R & D team … [Read more...]
Tor OONIprobe Mobile App Outs Censorship and Surveillance
The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), an affiliate of the Tor project, has released a mobile app called OONIprobe that lets Android and iOS users test to see if they are blocked from visiting specific websites, and if their device is subject to "equipment interference" by government or law enforcement agencies using surveillance technologies. The OONIprobe mobile … [Read more...]
Sovereign Intelligence and Sixgill: Applying AI to Dark Web Analytics
C5IS explores the merits of Sovereign Intelligence and Sixgill, pioneers in deploying deep learning and AI for Dark Web Analytics. With the Deep Web and Dark Web comprising some 90 percent of the Internet, the trick of finding the right data to monitor and analyze for "actionable intelligence" is half the challenge. Equally daunting: automating the process so that alerts are … [Read more...]