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Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:32:47 +0200 From: "karsten beldner" <karsten_beldner@...mail.com> To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk Subject: trojan horse to intercept voip calls seems like switzerland's arming itself with new cutting edge hacking technology to hunt down criminals as reported on sunday on heise http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/79172 (german it news portal. unfortunately they didn't post it on their english web site.). according to this article, the swiss departement for communication is checking a commercially developed trojan horse (http://www.era-it.ch/) to observe criminals pc's and to intercept their voip calls to hunt them down. beside intercepting voip calls (skype seems to be their main aim) they're also able to activate the microphone and webcam and abuse the computer as software surveillance appliance. also, personal firewall and av software are useless to detect and remove it. it raises the question to me, if they're really able to install such a sofware on a users pc, how good chances are and what else are they able to do there? and ... what else are they doing in their spare time? karsten _________________________________________________________________ Die neue MSN Suche Toolbar mit Windows-Desktopsuche. Suchen Sie gleichzeitig im Web, Ihren E-Mails und auf Ihrem PC! Jetzt neu! http://desktop.msn.de/ Jetzt gratis downloaden! _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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