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29.11.2025 - 18:53 [ Trinidad Express ]

Resisted by Grenada, radar spotted in Tobago: As 4th US aircraft flies in

Yet another US Marine aircraft was detected overnight heading into Tobago, the fourth of its kind over the course of the past week, as imagery on the island appeared to depict a powerful air defence US radar system at the ANR Robinson international Airport.

The sightings come after Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday confirmed the US military presence on the sister isle, backtracking on previous claims that previous military aircraft sighted on the island were only there to help the country with a “roadway.”

29.11.2025 - 18:24 [ CNC3.co.tt ]

Prime Minister defends silence on US Marines in Tobago ‘I withheld work on radar details to protect national security’

On Wednesday, when a C-17 Globemaster with the words Air Force emblazoned on its side was spotted at Tobago’s airport, a picture of the aeroplane was circulated widely on social media, with several citizens questioning its purpose.

Later that day, outside the Red House, the Prime Minister explained that the aircraft had brought in US marines to assist in constructing a roadway. At the time, she said that, to her knowledge, there were no longer any marines in the country. However, US marines were later seen at a popular hotel in Tobago. The day after, the Prime Minister clarified that following further inquiries, she had been informed that marines were still in Tobago and were assisting with work on the runway, roadway, and radar system at Tobago’s airport.

26.07.2025 - 12:07 [ Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik ]

TR-03109-1 Detailspezifikationen: Anforderungen an die Interoperabilität der Kommunikationseinheit eines intelligenten Messsystems

(September 17, 2021)

12. Detailspezifikation Automatische Adresskonfiguration und DNS-Discovery

12.1. Einleitung

Dieses Kapitel beschreibt Anforderungen an die automatische, dynamische Adresskonfiguration, Device- und Service Discovery mit dem Multicast Domain Name Service Protokoll (mDNS) und Domain Name Service Service Discovery (SD) Protokoll. Multicast DNS und DNS-SD werden verwendet, um eine automatische Konfiguration von Geräten und Diensten in einem Netzwerk zu ermöglichen. Zusammen mit einer automatischen IP-Adressvergabe wird dieses Konzept „Zeroconf“ genannt. Diese Spezifikation enthält Anforderungen an die Implementierung des mDNS/DNS-SD Responders (s. [RFC6762] Kapitel 6 und [RFC6763]).

Der mDNS Responder beantwortet DNS-Adressanfragen nach .local.“ (unique resource) und
„smgw.local.“ (shared resource) mit der link-lokalen Netzwerkadresse des SMGW.
mDNS verwendet die Datenstrukturen des DNS-Protokolls und kommuniziert über Port 5353 mittels UDP-Protokoll und Multicast-IPv4 und/oder IPv6.

mDNS verwendet DNS-A-Records zum Mitteilen von IPv4-Adressen und DNS-AAAA-Records zum Mitteilen
von IPv6-Adressen der Geräteschnittstelle im (lokalen) Netzwerk und kann IP-Adressen über DNS-PTR-Re-
cords zu Hostnamen auflösen.

DNS-SD verwendet DNS-SRV-Records zur Beschreibung der Dienstzugriffsadressen (z.B. Port-Nummer) und
DNS-TXT-Records zur Übermittlung von detaillierteren, kontextabhängigen Dienstzugangsinformationen
eines Gerätes im Netzwerk.

mDNS/DNS-SD bietet keinen Schutz vor manipulierten, verzögerten oder ausgespähten mDNS/DNS-SD-
Nachrichten. Um einen gewissen Schutz zu erreichen, darf das Protokoll deshalb nur link-lokal und in physisch oder kryptografisch geschützten Netzwerken innerhalb von Liegenschaften verwendet werden. Eine Betrachtung von Angreifer-Modellen zur Privacy von DNS-SD findet sich in [RFC8882].

26.07.2025 - 12:01 [ Wikipedia ]

Smart-Meter-Gateway

Aufgrund der hohen Anforderungen an Datenschutz und Datensicherheit im Bereich intelligente Messsysteme werden zukünftig in Deutschland nur solche intelligenten Messsysteme zugelassen, die den Anforderungen des Bundesamtes für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) an ein Smart Meter Gateway genügen.[10]

Die Mindestanforderungen an die Datensicherheit und mögliche Bedrohungsszenarien sind im Schutzprofil BSI-CC-PP-0073 festgelegt. Das Schutzprofil entspricht dem Sicherheitsstandard Common Criteria EAL4+ AVA_VAN 5 und ALC_FLR.2.[11] Hierauf basieren die weiteren Vorgaben der Technischen Richtlinie BSI TR-03109.[12]

26.07.2025 - 11:55 [ as-gmbh.de ]

Verbrauchsdaten­erfassung per Funk

4. Welche Reichweite hat der Funkempfänger?
Die Mindestreichweite beträgt drei Stockwerke, wobei der Empfänger in der mittleren Etage montiert wird. Die Funksender können dann auf dieser Etage, eine Etage darüber und eine Etage darunter montiert werden. Die horizontale Reichweite beträgt ca. 25 bis 30 m um den Funkempfänger herum. Da die Reichweite stark von der Gebäudetechnik abhängig ist, kann eine Machbarkeitsprognose mittels eingereichter Baupläne oder durch eine Testmessung im Objekt angefordert werden.

5. Welche Einschränkungen bestehen bezüglich der Bausubstanz?
Empfangsvermindernd können Stahlarmierungen, Stahlschränke, große Elektromotoren oder andere Funksender (z. B. CB-Funk, Garagentorsteuerung oder Modellbau) sein.

6. Wie kann man die gespeicherten Verbrauchsdaten aus der Funkzentrale auslesen ?
Die Daten können mit einem Laptop, mit einem GSM-Gateway oder über einen TCP/IP-Anschluss ausgelesen werden.

7. Was ist ein GSM-Gateway?
Ein GSM-Gateway ist ein Gerät, dass zwischen GSM-Mobilfunknetzen und einem weiteren Netz (z. B. Deutsche Telekom / Festnetz) Gespräche / Datenverbindungen weiterleiten kann. Eine Datenauslesung der Funkzentrale vor Ort entfällt vollständig. Die Datenauslesung wird zu festgelegten Zeiten durchgeführt.

8. Was ist ein TCP/IP-Anschluss?
Standardmäßig werden Computer über TCP/IP-Anschlüsse miteinander verbunden. Besteht eine Internetverbindung im Haus, so können wir die Zentralen über diese Verbindung auslesen.

26.07.2025 - 11:42 [ wohnen-im-eigentum.de ]

Heizkostenverordnung: Fernablesung wird Pflicht

(November 30, 2011)

Mit der Novellierung der Heizkostenverordnung wird die europäische Energieeffizienz-Richtlinie (EED) in deutsches Recht umgesetzt.

(…)

Bei der Neuinstallation von Messgeräten zur Verbrauchserfassung (Zähler, Heizkostenverteiler) dürfen ab 01.12.2021 nur noch fernablesbare Geräte eingebaut werden (sogenannte Walk-by- und Drive-by-Technologien). Mithilfe der Funktechnik können die Zählerwerte automatisiert ausgelesen werden, ohne dass hierfür die Wohnungen bzw. Häuser betreten werden müssen.

26.07.2025 - 11:12 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

DER MOBILE TELEVISOR (II): „Hinter Mauern versteckte menschliche Wesen visualisieren“

(February 16, 2013)

Die meisten der Konsortien im nach elf Jahren weltweitem Krieg verschmolzenen informationstechnisch-spionagetechnologischen und militärisch-industriellen Komplex machen sich nicht einmal mehr Mühe die Einsatzfähigkeit ihrer Produkte zu verschleiern – im Gegenteil.

Auf seiner Webseite wirbt z.B. der Konzern Camero Tech, nach eigenen Angaben Führer im Weltmarkt für „Sense-Through-The-Wall (STTW) Lösungen“ für portable Kamera- und Ortungssysteme zwecks „Abbildungen von 3D Objekten hinter Wänden“ und dem „Tracking“ von Bewegungen – wohlgemerkt in Echtzeit. Umworben wird besonders der gut betuchte Markt von Polizei und Sondereinsatzkommandos – was natürlich mit innerer Sicherheit andere ausschließlich wohlmeinende Kunden aus boomenden Geschäften weltweit keinesfalls ausschließt.

Ein konkurrierender Konzern um die Gunst der (zumindest in Deutschland) keineswegs im rechtsfreien, aber gesetzesfreien Raum operierenden internationalen Gesetzeshüter, „Sicherheitsbehörden“ und Spione ist Walleye. Dieser wirbt für seine portablen und batteriebetriebenen Televisoren, in der Lage durch „solide Objekte“ zu schauen, als Weltmarktführer in Sachen Mikrowellen-Imaging.

26.07.2025 - 10:59 [ Community Research and Development Information Service / EU Commission - cordis.europa.eu ]

RADIOTECT – Ultra Wideband Radio application for localisation of hidden people and detection of unauthorised objects

(August 14, 2008)

1.2 Contractors

Type Name Country
Government Authority Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency Sweden
SME MEODAT GmbH Germany
SME GEOZONDAS Ltd Lithuania
SME INGMETAL Slovakia
SME IRK-Dresden Germany
SME Crabbe Consulting Ltd Germany
University Vrije Universiteit Brussel Belgium
University Technická univerzita v Košiciach Slovakia
University Delft University of Technology The Netherlands
University Technische Universität Ilmenau Germany

1.3 Summary of achievements
The overall achievements may be summarised as follows:

• A high resolution radar working with the M-Sequence technique has been developed to enable security forces to detect persons hidden behind walls. This was achieved through advances in the state of the art for radar electronics and algorithms for person detection and tracking.

• A high resolution radar also working with the M-Sequence technique has been developed to enable rescue forces to detect persons trapped under rubble. This was also achieved through advances in the state of the art for radar electronics and algorithms for person detection and localisation.

• A further high resolution radar working with the sub-nano second impulse technique has been developed which demonstrates the ability to detect movement including heart beat and breathing also for security or rescue applications. This was also achieved through advances in the state of the art for radar electronics and algorithms for person detection and localisation.

• 3 systems working with the sub-nano second impulse radar technique up to 18 GHz were developed to investigate the challenge of imaging objects hidden behind clothes. This was also achieved through advances in the state of the art for radar electronics and algorithms for person detection and localisation.

• Components were developed utilising SiGe semiconductor chip and LTCC technology for a mm-wave radar to work in the frequency range 60-70 GHz. This was also achieved through advances in the state of the art for radar electronics.

• All systems have been tested in the laboratory and those closest to the market evaluated in tests with end users.

• The SMEs have results from the project which they assess as increasing their competitiveness. The SMEs estimate their economic benefit from the project will be as high if not higher than planned in preparing the project.

• Products for rescue and security application are foreseen and project results may be used in other application areas.

• The partners have developed strong and trusting working relationships with each other.

26.07.2025 - 09:16 [ Spiegel.de ]

Telekom will 2G-Technik bis 2028 abschalten

(October 24, 2024)

Die Abschaltung des GSM-Netzes betrifft aber auch Dienste im Internet der Dinge. Dazu gehören etwa einige vernetzte Stromzähler und Alarmanlagen, die noch über GSM online sind. Damit diese Anlagen auch nach der Abschaltung des GSM-Netzes der Telekom wie gewohnt funktionieren, sollten Anbieter und Nutzer jetzt aktiv werden und den Austausch der noch verbliebenen alten Funkmodule vorbereiten, empfiehlt die Deutsche Telekom.

26.07.2025 - 08:31 [ ZigZagStatic / Youtube ]

A.I. Generating Dreams & Turning Wi-Fi Routers Into Cameras to See Through Walls

Jul 3, 2023

0:00
aging the latest paper the one that
0:02
happened even after this which is
0:03
already better uses stable diffusion
0:06
uses the thing that you use to make art
0:09
like what should a thing that you use to
0:10
make art have anything to do with
0:11
reading your brain but of course it goes
0:13
further so in this one they said can
0:16
they understand
0:18
um the inner monologue the things you‘re
0:20
saying to yourself in your own mind my
0:23
dude by the way when you dream your
0:24
dream like your visual cortex runs in
0:26
Reverse so your dreams are no longer
0:28
safe
0:29
um but we‘ll try this so they had people
0:31
watch a video and just narrate what was
0:33
going on in the video in their mind so
0:35
there‘s a woman she gets hit in the back
0:37
she falls over this is what the computer
0:40
reconstructed the person thinking
0:43
see a girl looks just like me get hit in
0:45
the back and then she is knocked off
0:48
so our thoughts like are starting to be
0:51
decoded
0:53
yeah just think about what this means
0:55
for authoritarian States for instance
0:58
or if you want to generate images that
1:00
maximally activate your pleasure sensor
1:03
anything else okay but let‘s keep going
1:04
right to really get the sense of the
1:06
combinatorics of this how about can we
1:08
go from Wi-Fi radio signals you know
1:10
sort of like the Wi-Fi routers in your
1:12
house they‘re bouncing off radio signals
1:14
that work sort of like sonar can you go
1:16
from that to where human beings are to
1:19
images so what they did is they had
1:21
um you know a camera looking at a space
1:24
with people in it
1:25
um that‘s sort of like coming in from
1:26
one eye the other eye is the radio
1:28
signals so sonar from the Wi-Fi router
1:31
and they just learn to predict like this
1:33
is where the human beings are then they
1:35
took away the camera so all the AI had
1:38
was the language of radio signals
1:40
bouncing around a room and this is what
1:43
they‘re able to reconstruct
1:45
Real Time 3D pose estimation right so
1:50
suddenly AI has turned every Wi-Fi
1:53
router into a camera that can work in
1:56
the dark specially tuned for tracking
1:58
living beings
2:01
already

26.07.2025 - 08:24 [ Associated Press / Youtube ]

Researchers Use WiFi To See Through Walls

Dec 22, 2015
X-ray vision _ a comic book fantasy for decades _ is becoming a reality in a lab. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed software that uses variations in radio signals to recognize human silhouettes through walls.

26.07.2025 - 07:52 [ Golem.de ]

Passive Funksender: WLAN fast ohne Strom

(March 3, 2016)

Passive Funksender sind keine neue Idee. Schon 1945 wurde die US-Botschaft mit einem passiven Mikrophonsender abgehört, der keine eigene Stromquelle brauchte. Die Energie für das Signal wird von einem anderen Sender bereitgestellt, der passive Funksender muss dieses vorhandene Signal nur noch so verändern, dass es die gewünschte Information trägt.

26.07.2025 - 07:44 [ Wikipedia ]

The Thing (listening device)

The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or „bugs“) to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945. Because it was passive, needing electromagnetic energy from an outside source to become energized and activate, it is considered a predecessor of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology.

26.07.2025 - 06:41 [ theHackerNews.com ]

Hackers can spy on your calls and track location, using just your phone number

(April 19, 2016)

The famous ‘60 Minutes‘ television show shocked some viewers Sunday evening when a team of German hackers demonstrated how they spied on an iPhone used by U.S. Congressman, then recorded his phone calls and tracked his movement through Los Angeles. (…)

The global telecom network SS7 is still vulnerable to several security flaws that could let hackers and spy agencies listen to personal phone calls and intercept SMSes on a potentially massive scale, despite the most advanced encryption used by cellular networks.

All one need is the target‘s phone number to track him/her anywhere on the planet and even eavesdrop on the conversations.

26.07.2025 - 06:28 [ DarkReading.com ]

All GSM Calls Under Threat From Hackers

(August 26, 2009)

Once complete it means anyone with a $500 radio card and a laptop will be able to listen in to GSM calls

It marks a lowering of the bar for criminals to be able to hack calls

It makes having someone listen to our calls a real-life threat for all of us

13.07.2025 - 16:15 [ Jerusalem Post ]

‚Israel, Russia to coordinate in air, sea, and electromagnetic arena‘

(October 27, 2015)

In Russia, Eisenkot met with his Russian counterpart, General Valery Vasilevich Gerasimov – the first time chiefs of staff from Russia and Israel held a direct meeting in Moscow. Eisenkot also participated in part of the meeting held between Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Afterward, the two sides agreed to set up a joint working group led by the deputy chiefs of staff from each country.

11.06.2025 - 22:07 [ +972 Magazine ]

Israel is falsely designating Gaza areas as empty in order to bomb them

In recent weeks, the Israeli army has been launching airstrikes on residential neighborhoods in Gaza that they treat as evacuated, despite knowing that many of the houses bombed were filled with civilians who could not or did not want to leave, according to two intelligence sources who spoke to +972 Magazine and Local Call.

The army’s designation of a particular neighborhood as “green,” or cleared of residents, is based on a crude algorithmic analysis of phone usage patterns over a wide area — not on a detailed, house-by-house assessment before bombing, as previously revealed by +972 Magazine, Local Call and The New York Times.

03.04.2025 - 17:25 [ Jerusalem Post ]

‚Israel, Russia to coordinate in air, sea, and electromagnetic arena‘

(October 27, 2015)

In Russia, Eisenkot met with his Russian counterpart, General Valery Vasilevich Gerasimov – the first time chiefs of staff from Russia and Israel held a direct meeting in Moscow. Eisenkot also participated in part of the meeting held between Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Afterward, the two sides agreed to set up a joint working group led by the deputy chiefs of staff from each country.

23.03.2025 - 20:18 [ Tom's Guide / Youtube ]

Your router‘s security stinks: Here‘s how to fix it

(January 23, 2023)

Then, there‘s networking port 32764, which French security researcher Eloi Vanderbeken in 2013 discovered had been quietly left open on gateway routers sold by several major brands.

Using port 32764, anyone on a local network — which includes a user‘s ISP — could take full administrative control of a router, and even perform a factory reset, without a password.

The port was closed on most affected devices following Vanderbeken‘s disclosures, but he later found that it could easily be reopened with a specially designed data packet that could be sent from an ISP.

„This is so obviously done by a spy agency, it‘s amazing,“ Horowitz said. „It was deliberate, no doubt about it.“

(…)

Change the router‘s Domain Name System (DNS) server from the ISP‘s own server…

23.03.2025 - 19:43 [ ZigZagStatic / Youtube ]

A.I. Generating Dreams & Turning Wi-Fi Routers Into Cameras to See Through Walls

Jul 3, 2023

0:00
aging the latest paper the one that
0:02
happened even after this which is
0:03
already better uses stable diffusion
0:06
uses the thing that you use to make art
0:09
like what should a thing that you use to
0:10
make art have anything to do with
0:11
reading your brain but of course it goes
0:13
further so in this one they said can
0:16
they understand
0:18
um the inner monologue the things you‘re
0:20
saying to yourself in your own mind my
0:23
dude by the way when you dream your
0:24
dream like your visual cortex runs in
0:26
Reverse so your dreams are no longer
0:28
safe
0:29
um but we‘ll try this so they had people
0:31
watch a video and just narrate what was
0:33
going on in the video in their mind so
0:35
there‘s a woman she gets hit in the back
0:37
she falls over this is what the computer
0:40
reconstructed the person thinking
0:43
see a girl looks just like me get hit in
0:45
the back and then she is knocked off
0:48
so our thoughts like are starting to be
0:51
decoded
0:53
yeah just think about what this means
0:55
for authoritarian States for instance
0:58
or if you want to generate images that
1:00
maximally activate your pleasure sensor
1:03
anything else okay but let‘s keep going
1:04
right to really get the sense of the
1:06
combinatorics of this how about can we
1:08
go from Wi-Fi radio signals you know
1:10
sort of like the Wi-Fi routers in your
1:12
house they‘re bouncing off radio signals
1:14
that work sort of like sonar can you go
1:16
from that to where human beings are to
1:19
images so what they did is they had
1:21
um you know a camera looking at a space
1:24
with people in it
1:25
um that‘s sort of like coming in from
1:26
one eye the other eye is the radio
1:28
signals so sonar from the Wi-Fi router
1:31
and they just learn to predict like this
1:33
is where the human beings are then they
1:35
took away the camera so all the AI had
1:38
was the language of radio signals
1:40
bouncing around a room and this is what
1:43
they‘re able to reconstruct
1:45
Real Time 3D pose estimation right so
1:50
suddenly AI has turned every Wi-Fi
1:53
router into a camera that can work in
1:56
the dark specially tuned for tracking
1:58
living beings
2:01
already

23.03.2025 - 19:28 [ Associated Press / Youtube ]

Researchers Use WiFi To See Through Walls

Dec 22, 2015
X-ray vision _ a comic book fantasy for decades _ is becoming a reality in a lab. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed software that uses variations in radio signals to recognize human silhouettes through walls.

23.03.2025 - 18:42 [ Fadel Adib / Youtube ]

Wi-Vi: See through Walls with Wi-Fi signals

Jun 2, 2013
Wi-Vi is a new technology that enables seeing through walls using Wi-Fi signals. The video shows the output of Wi-Vi (blue window) when a person moves around in a room. It can track whether there is a moving human inside the room and how he is moving.

23.03.2025 - 18:35 [ CircleID.com ]

Is Your Router Spying on You?

(January 7, 2025)

What’s probably the most interesting aspect of the sudden focus on WiFi routers is that security experts have been complaining for years that most routers on the market have shoddy security measures and are easy to hack. Perhaps one outcome of the sudden focus on routers will be new government rules demanding better security for all devices.

It’s always a little hard to distinguish politics from reality. Politicians are suddenly lining up to dump on the Chinese, which is easy to do for an issue with no domestic political backlash.

06.03.2025 - 05:18 [ Tagesschau.de ]

USA kappen Geheimdienstinformationen für Ukraine

Die Informationen der US-Geheimdienste sind für die Ukraine von entscheidender Bedeutung. Die bisherige Zusammenarbeit ermöglichte es der Ukraine, russische Militärziele zu identifizieren. Ohne diese Informationen könnte die Ukraine Schwierigkeiten haben, russische Militärbewegungen effektiv zu überwachen und entsprechend darauf zu reagieren.

06.03.2025 - 05:16 [ Forbes ]

The U.S. Is Trying To Blind Ukraine—By Kicking It Out Of Orbit. It Won’t Work.

Ukraine relied heavily on America’s own large fleet of spacecraft—hundreds of satellites for communication and surveillance—plus commercial space services paid for by the U.S. or other allies.

The satellites helped Ukrainian troops, drones and munitions navigate and communicate, spotted—via radar and camera—Russian forces on the move and traced Russian command networks by detecting their radios.

31.01.2025 - 01:00 [ National Aeronautics and Space Administration ]

SPHEREx

About the mission

Launch date: Late February 2025

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is a planned two-year mission that will survey the sky in optical as well as near-infrared light which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions. Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 450 million galaxies, as well as, more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way.

31.01.2025 - 00:30 [ National Aeronautics and Space Administration ]

NASA to Preview Sky-Mapping Space Telescope Ahead of Launch

NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 31, to discuss a new telescope that will improve our understanding of how the universe evolved and search for key ingredients for life in our galaxy.

Agency experts will preview NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission, which will help scientists better understand the structure of the universe, how galaxies form and evolve, and the origins and abundance of water. Launch is targeted for no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27.

29.09.2024 - 01:42 [ Anadolu ]

Israeli army hacks into Beirut Airport control tower, threatens Iranian civilian plane

The Israeli army on Saturday hacked into the control tower of Beirut‘s Rafic Hariri International Airport, issuing threats against an Iranian civilian aircraft attempting to land, according to official sources.

The Lebanese Ministry of Transport instructed airport authorities to prevent the Iranian plane from entering Lebanese airspace following Israeli threats to target the aircraft if it landed at the airport.

27.09.2024 - 04:21 [ Times of Israel ]

Israel has secured $8.7 billion US aid package to support ongoing military campaigns — Defense Ministry

Israel has secured an $8.7 billion aid package from the United States to support its ongoing military efforts and to maintain a qualitative military edge in the region, the Defense Ministry announces in a statement.

The package includes $3.5 billion for essential wartime procurement, which has already been received and earmarked for critical military purchases, and $5.2 billion designated for air defense systems including the Iron Dome anti-missile system, David’s Sling, and an advanced laser system.

29.03.2024 - 22:45 [ CommonDreams.org ]

Human Rights Expert Sounds Alarm Over Israeli Firm‘s ‚Dystopian‘ Video-Altering Tech

(December 27, 2022)

Haaretz continued:

Twenty years on, this is no longer the stuff of movies: Toka‘s tech allows clients to do just that and more—not just diverting a live feed but also altering old feeds and erasing any evidence of a covert op.
Technical documents reviewed by an ethical hacker prove that Toka‘s tech can alter both live and recorded video feeds—all without leaving any forensics or telltale signs of a hack (in contrast to NSO‘s Pegasus spyware, or Intellexa‘s Predator, which leave a digital fingerprint on targeted devices).

29.03.2024 - 22:35 [ Truthout.org ]

Israeli Firm Plans Expanding Its Deployment of Video-Altering Tech

(December 27, 2022)

Co-founded by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) cyber chief Yaron Rosen, Toka “sells technologies that allow clients to locate security cameras or even webcams within a given perimeter, hack into them, watch their live feed, and even alter it — and past recordings,” Haaretz reported, citing internal documents it obtained and reviewed with a technical expert.

The company, whose activities are overseen by the Israeli Defense Ministry, “was set up in 2018 and has offices in Tel Aviv and Washington,” Haaretz reported.

29.03.2024 - 22:30 [ Haaretz ]

Revealed: The Israeli Firm Selling ‘Dystopian’ Hacking Capabilities

(December 23, 2022)

According to a company pitch deck obtained by Haaretz, Toka offers what it terms “previously out-of-reach capabilities” that “transform untapped IoT sensors into intelligence sources,” and can be used “for intelligence and operational needs.” (IoT stands for Internet of Things and refers here to web-connected cameras and even car media systems.)

29.03.2024 - 22:15 [ TomsGuide.com ]

Millions of wireless security cameras are at risk of being hacked: What to do

(16 June 2020)

Bevan also called on lawmakers to take action, saying: “The government must push forward with their plans for legislation to require connected devices to meet certain security standards and ensure this is backed by strong enforcement.“