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...]
Italy’s AREA SpA: Lesson in the Importance of Legal Awareness
When a company is in the business of serving law enforcement, generally it is inadvisable to act like a scofflaw. Yet such appears to be the case with Milan's AREA SpA, a well-established ISS vendor noted for its work in lawful intercept, mobile location, IP monitoring, data retention, and more recently "post-Trojan" surveillance involving work in the Deep and Dark Webs. For … [Read more...]
Equipment Interference: Ticking Time Bomb of UK’s Investigatory Powers Act
Since passage of the UK's Investigatory Powers Act by Parliament, most attention has focused on the clause requiring ISPs to retain all customer Internet data records for 12 months and allowing LEAs to access the metadata without a warrant. But tucked away in the Parliament's law is a provision far more likely to arouse the ire of device and network hardware manufacturers - … [Read more...]
The Big Black Book of Electronic Surveillance 5th Edition: 2017
C5IS is proud to announce The Big Black Book of Electronic Surveillance 5th Edition: 2017, the ISS industry's unique Buyer's Guide for law enforcement, government and military intelligence. The book is updated to present current product information on the best ISS vendors in 10 categories, and cross-referenced throughout to show the full range of products, services and … [Read more...]