(September 9, 2026)
British intelligence has been given assurances by its Israeli counterpart that information sharing with the UK will continue as before, Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, has said.
Archiv: elektromagnetische Strahlung / Licht / Laser / Funk / Radar / Technologien / WLAN / 5G / RFID / electromagnetic radiation / light / laser / radio / radar / technologies
Hitachi Develops a New RFID with Embedded Antenna µ-Chip –Makes Possible Wireless Links that Work Using Nothing More Than a 0.4mm X 0.4mm Chip, One of the World‘s Smallest ICs–
(September 2, 2003)
This newly developed version, however, features an internal antenna, enabling chips to employ the energy of incoming electrical waves to wirelessly transmit its ID number to a reader. The 0.4mm X 0.4mm chip can thus operate entirely on its own, making it possible to use µ-Chip as RFID IC tags without the need to attach external devices. This breakthrough opens the door to using µ-Chips as RFID IC tags in extremely minute and precise applications that had been impractical until now. For example, the new µ-Chip can be easily embedded in bank notes, gift certificates, documents and whole paper media etc.
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.
A.I. Generating Dreams & Turning Wi-Fi Routers Into Cameras to See Through Walls
Jul 3, 2023
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aging the latest paper the one that
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happened even after this which is
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already better uses stable diffusion
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uses the thing that you use to make art
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like what should a thing that you use to
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make art have anything to do with
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reading your brain but of course it goes
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further so in this one they said can
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they understand
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um the inner monologue the things you‘re
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saying to yourself in your own mind my
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dude by the way when you dream your
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dream like your visual cortex runs in
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Reverse so your dreams are no longer
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safe
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um but we‘ll try this so they had people
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watch a video and just narrate what was
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going on in the video in their mind so
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there‘s a woman she gets hit in the back
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she falls over this is what the computer
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reconstructed the person thinking
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see a girl looks just like me get hit in
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the back and then she is knocked off
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so our thoughts like are starting to be
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decoded
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yeah just think about what this means
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for authoritarian States for instance
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or if you want to generate images that
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maximally activate your pleasure sensor
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anything else okay but let‘s keep going
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right to really get the sense of the
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combinatorics of this how about can we
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go from Wi-Fi radio signals you know
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sort of like the Wi-Fi routers in your
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house they‘re bouncing off radio signals
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that work sort of like sonar can you go
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from that to where human beings are to
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images so what they did is they had
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um you know a camera looking at a space
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with people in it
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um that‘s sort of like coming in from
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one eye the other eye is the radio
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signals so sonar from the Wi-Fi router
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and they just learn to predict like this
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is where the human beings are then they
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took away the camera so all the AI had
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was the language of radio signals
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bouncing around a room and this is what
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they‘re able to reconstruct
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Real Time 3D pose estimation right so
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suddenly AI has turned every Wi-Fi
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router into a camera that can work in
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the dark specially tuned for tracking
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living beings
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WLAN kann jetzt ohne Kamera beobachten
Keine Sorge: Das Unternehmen betont: keine Bilder, kein Ton, keine Personenidentifikation. Die Funktion ist opt-in und standardmäßig aus. Sie läuft auf neueren Gateways ab dem Modell XB7. Comcast selbst sagt, das sei kein professioneller Sicherheitsdienst und werde nicht rund um die Uhr überwacht. Wen das trotzdem noch besorgt, der kann wirklich entwarnt werden: Comcast und die Geräte gibt es nicht in Europa.
Es sollte trotzdem interessieren, was technisch möglich ist.
Lauschangriffe: Abhörverfahren über elektromagnetische Abstrahlung
(September 2, 2020)
Laserdrucker, Scanner und Monitore erzeugen eine elektromagnetische Abstrahlung, welche geheime Zugangsdaten und sensible Informationen enthält. Datendiebe können diese Abstrahlung aus einer Entfernung von bis zu einigen hundert Metern als Rauschbilder oder direkt als Klardaten abfangen, speichern und auswerten.
Dies gelingt auch aus anderen Gebäuden heraus oder innerhalb eines Werksgeländes aus der Entfernung. Tastatureingaben können ebenfalls ohne Manipulation von IT-Kabeln oder dem Einbau von Signalverstärkern abgefangen werden.
Den IT-Betreibern fehlt oft das nötige Sicherheitsbewusstsein für die Gefahren im Umgang mit IT-Systemen und deren Hardware.
Heizkostenverordnung: Fernablesung wird Pflicht
(November 30, 2021)
Mit der Novellierung der Heizkostenverordnung wird die europäische Energieeffizienz-Richtlinie (EED) in deutsches Recht umgesetzt.
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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.
Smart Meter: Einfallstore fĂĽr Cyberangriffe im Stromnetz
(April 6, 2026)
Die Studie unterstreicht, dass der Schutz kritischer Netzknoten oberste Priorität haben muss. Neben der neuen Detektionsmethode empfehlen die Autoren:
– Kompromittierte Daten gezielt zu entfernen oder zu korrigieren
– Stärkere Cybersicherheitsstandards bei der Entwicklung und dem Betrieb von Smart Metern
– Eine Kombination aus technischen und organisatorischen MaĂźnahmen, um die gesamte Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) abzusichern
Die wichtigste Gegenmaßnahme ist allerdings sich kein Smart Meter aufschwatzen oder aufnötigen zu lassen. Die klassischen Ferraris-Zähler sind gegen jegliche Manipulation aus der Ferne gefeit, mangels Verbindung ins Internet. Und sie senden auch keine Hochfrequenz-Strahlung aus.
Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger Conversations
(December 10, 2012)
It also raises questions about security, since the IP audio-video systems can be accessed remotely via a built-in web server (.pdf), and can be combined with GPS data to track the movement of buses and passengers throughout the city.
According to the product pamphlet for the RoadRecorder 7000 system made by SafetyVision (.pdf), „Remote connectivity to the RoadRecorder 7000 NVR can be established via the Gigabit Ethernet port or the built-in 3G modem. A robust software ecosystem including LiveTrax vehicle tracking and video streaming service combined with SafetyNet central management system allows authorized users to check health status, create custom alerts, track vehicles, automate event downloads and much more.“
Abu Dhabi launches new surveillance system
(July 13, 2016)
Abu Dhabi‘s Monitoring and Control Centre has launched the Falcon Eye surveillance system across the city, including the airport, main islands, Bani Yas and Musaffah. The system links thousands of cameras into a central platform that provides live feeds, smart alerts and incident access to help authorities monitor traffic violations, accidents, public hygiene and gatherings. Officials said the project supports Abu Dhabi‘s push to use technology to improve security, safety and city management.
Medienschau: Geheimpolizei? Gut!
Verfassungsschutz (VS) und BND sollen per Gesetz Polizeibefugnisse erhalten, beschloss das Kabinett am Mittwoch. Was die Dienste bisher einfach so oder mit Amtshilfe erledigt haben, erhält nun Legalisierungstünche. Der Devise, alles dem Krieg gegen Russland und der Aufrüstung unterzuordnen, stimmen die meisten Kommentatoren zu. Sie finden offenbar auch, dass Friedensfreunde, also Staatsfeinde, mehr bekämpft werden müssen.
Redakteure deutscher BĂĽrgermedien finden jedenfalls mehrheitlich eine angriffslustige deutsche Geheimpolizei gut.
RĂĽckkehr der Gestapo? Deutschland reiĂźt die Trennmauer zwischen Polizei und Geheimdiensten ein
Mehrere Politiker nutzten den Leipziger Drohnenvorfall für weitere Forderungen: Schleswig-Holsteins Ministerpräsident Daniel Günther (CDU) will die Verfassung ändern, um Bundeswehreinsätze im Inneren zur Drohnenabwehr zu ermöglichen; der Verteidigungsausschussvorsitzende Thomas Röwekamp (CDU) fordert eine Zentralisierung der Luftsicherheit bei der Bundespolizei. Rheinmetall-Chef Armin Papperger kündigte an, gemeinsam mit der Deutschen Telekom Mobilfunkmasten zur Drohnenfrüherkennung zu nutzen.
Der WSWS-Autor Peter Schwarz sieht in dem Gesetzespaket keine Reaktion auf reale „hybride Bedrohungen„, sondern die gezielte Vorbereitung eines Polizeistaats, der die wachsende Opposition gegen Aufrüstung und Sozialabbau im Inneren unterdrücken soll – mit stillschweigender oder offener Unterstützung aller Bundestagsparteien.
Wie im Gangster-Film: Firma will Ăśberwachungskameras fĂĽr Geheimdienste manipulieren
(December 29, 2022)
Auch mit Deutschland soll es zumindest Gespräche gegeben haben, geht aus den Haaretz vorliegenden Dokumenten hervor. Neben den USA und Australien soll es zudem Kontakt mit Singapur gegeben haben, einem nicht-demokratischen Staat. Ob die Länder tatsächlich Produkte von Toka einsetzen, ist nicht bekannt.
Der Markt für vernetzte Geräte wie Videokameras, Kühlschränke und Autos wächst seit Jahren kontinuierlich an.
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).
Unfortunately the Rule passed just now and no debate or vote was allowed on section 219, integration of US military technology and supply chains with Israel’s. The NDAA will receive a recorded vote tomorrow with section 219 in it. I’ll vote no.
7:11 PM · Jul 21, 2026
Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.
12:49 AM · Jul 22, 2026
House Rule Advances 2027 NDAA With Section to Integrate US and Israeli Militaries
The House on Tuesday approved a procedural vote to advance the $1.15 trillion 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a section to further integrate the US and Israeli militaries, a plan that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said was his idea.
The rule to allow floor debate and a vote on the NDAA and several pieces of legislation passed in a 214-211 vote, and a final vote on the House’s version of the NDAA is expected to take place on Wednesday. The procedural step came after the House Rules Committee denied a vote on an amendment introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to strip Section 219, the Israeli integration plan, from the bill.
Senate Democrats Block Advancement of $1.1 Trillion NDAA Over Iran War
Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked the advancement of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, citing President Trump’s war with Iran, which continues to rage following the collapse of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding.
The NDAA would provide the Pentagon with over $1.1 trillion in funding as part of the White House’s plan for a $1.5 trillion military budget for 2027, a nearly 50% increase from this year. The bill also includes an amendment, Section 1217, to further merge the US and Israeli militaries under a plan being pushed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A procedural vote of 50-46 fell well short of the 60 votes that it needed to advance the NDAA. Every Democrat, except two who weren’t present for the vote — Senators Jon Fetterman (PA) and Alex Padilla (CA) — voted against advancing the sprawling military spending bill.
How Section 219, the US-Israel Military Merger, Would Thwart American Democracy
(July 13, 2026)
The House provision, which has a Senate version known as Section 1217, would also forbid the president of the United States from limiting intelligence collaboration with Israel over its human rights abuses. If the President ever wants to limit such collaboration, he or she must tell Congress and can only cite American national security as a basis.
In other words, these bills would connect the US and Israeli militaries in unprecedented ways and make it exceedingly difficult for any future president to unwind this partnership with a foreign government.
Congressional Proposal Could Deepen US Complicity
(June 16, 2026)
Buried in the US$1.15 trillion National Defense Authorization Act is a provision that would deepen US military cooperation with Israel while walling that cooperation off from further congressional oversight.
Section 219 (formerly section 224) creates the role of an “executive agent” focused on folding Israeli technology into US weapons programs, and vice versa, including in missile and air defense technologies as well as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, cyberwarfare, and autonomous systems. Once implemented, the provision would speed efforts to embed Israeli technologies into US weapons systems in ways almost never codified into law, even for allies. As the protracted experience with unwinding Turkish participation in the F-35 program shows, practically, integration binds the United States to rely on producers in ways that become next to impossible to walk back later, even if lawmakers want to.
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Section 219 also calls for “data fusion.” In defense doctrine, data fusion means combining feeds from many sensors and intelligence sources into a single targeting picture. The United States would be absorbing Israeli data, which may have been collected under problematic mass surveillance programs. Moreover, section 219 would be reinforced by section 622 of the intelligence appropriations bill, which mandates intelligence sharing and would further promote combining US intelligence streams with Israeli ones that could then be used by the Israeli military for targeting.
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
(July 2, 2026)
Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ones are true.
“The essence of childhood has been destroyed”: Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 October 2023
56. On 24 January 2024, at around 08:30, a family was preparing to evacuate from their ground-floor apartment in a seven-storey building at al-Amal, west of Khan Younis, following receipt of an evacuation order by the Israeli security forces. The father noticed quadcopters hovering over the area and presence of the Israeli security forces about 100 meters east of their house, instructing people to head west to Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis. His 15-year-old son stepped out of the house holding a white cloth, when the father, who was inside the house, heard a gunshot from the eastern side where Israeli soldiers were located. The boy was hit in the left foot, and he fell on his face. As he attempted to stand, two more gunshots were fired within seconds from the same direction. One shot hit the boy on his back and another on the left side of his neck. Seeing this, the boy’s 20-year-old brother ran towards him and was also shot on the left side of his chest. He collapsed on top of his younger brother.
57. The victims’ mother waved her hands at the south side window to signal for an ambulance when the Israeli security forces fired bullets which hit her too, slightly injuring her in her left hand. The father tried several times to pull away the bodies of both his sons but, every time he tried to advance towards them, the Israeli security forces fired in his direction. He then left the neighbourhood with the rest of his family. In early March 2024, he learned that two days after the incident, an ambulance arrived to retrieve his sons’ bodies. To date, the family is unaware where the bodies are buried.
58. The Commission assesses that the 15-year-old boy holding the white flag was shot by Israeli soldiers using a DAN.338 calibre bolt-action sniper rifle, commonly used by Israeli snipers, from a position located around 200 metres away. Given that sniper rifles used by the Israeli security forces normally have a precision accuracy range of more than 1,200 metres, the Israeli shooter should have been able to see that the target was a child and that he was holding a white flag. The additional two shots fired after the boy was hit were likely meant to ensure that he was dead. The additional killing of the boy’s brother points to a deliberate effort by the Israeli security forces to target the boy as well as any person that came to retrieve him. The Commission could not find any indication of a threat towards members of the Israeli security forces from the family’s location. The Commission finds that the Israeli security forces’ 98th Division were operating in the area at the time of the incident.
Injuring of a 10-day-old baby by quadcopter inside the tent in Nuseirat camp
59. On 12 April 2024 at 13:00, a 10 day-old-baby boy was shot by a quadcopter while being breastfed by his mother inside their tent in Nuseirat camp. The mother was alone in the tent, breastfeeding her baby, when a single bullet from a quadcopter hit the baby in the head and exited through the back of his head, hitting the pillow behind her. The baby survived but sustained brain injuries and now suffers from seizures.
60. The Commission viewed and analysed images of the bullet that hit the baby. The Commission concluded on reasonable grounds that the bullet was fired from a sniper rifle mounted on a quadcopter. Considering that the shooting occurred in broad daylight, the
Commission concludes that the quadcopter controller would have been able to see inside the tent and assesses that the target was a mother and a baby.
Injuring of a four-year-old girl in Khan Younis displacement camp
61. On 24 August 2024, at around 08:00, a four-year-old girl was hit by a bullet to her head while she was eating with her family in her tent in Khan Younis, southern Gaza…………..
Exclusive: UK adopts SpaceX‘s Starshield for military operations, sources say
(June 2, 2026)
Britain has begun using SpaceX‘s militarised satellite network Starshield, according to two people familiar ​with the matter, making it among the first countries outside the United States to adopt Elon Musk‘s government-focused variant ‌of Starlink.
Starshield, developed for the U.S. government, is designed for military and intelligence missions with enhanced security features, while SpaceX‘s standard Starlink broadband service is aimed at consumer and commercial use.
Exclusive: Pentagon spars with SpaceX over Starlink price hike during Iran war
(May 26, 2026)
The ongoing disputes, which have not previously been reported, underscore how the Pentagon’s growing reliance on SpaceX is handing Musk greater leverage over a critical layer of U.S. national security – at a time when SpaceX ​is seeking to boost revenue ahead of an IPO next month that could be among the biggest in history.
Unlike consumer Starlink terminals available at stores including Walmart, SpaceX sells a military-specific version called Starshield to the Pentagon under a 2023 agreement. Starshield terminals can connect to both commercial Starlink ​satellites and a separate, more secure constellation, also called Starshield, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Starlink Has Privatized Geopolitics
(March 20, 2026)
Starlink is far more than a commercial connectivity service. It is strategic infrastructure that increasingly shapes how wars are fought, how states manage internal unrest, and how criminal networks operate in ungoverned spaces. What makes Starlink so politically consequential is not just its globe-spanning reach but also the governance model behind it.
A private company is now a gatekeeper in orbit, helping decide who connects as well as where, under what conditions, and with what technical constraints. In a growing number of conflicts, these decisions carry military and political effects that states struggle to replicate or control. If many strategic supply chains now depend on private firms, Starlink is an unusually concentrated case of private discretion over public security functions.
Gefährliche Apps · Im Netz der Datenhändler
(April 7, 2026)
Grundlage dieser Dokumentation ist eine der bislang größten Recherchen dieser Art: Ein Team aus Bayerischem Rundfunk, netzpolitik.org, Le Monde und weiteren Partnermedien hat rund zehn Milliarden Standortdaten ausgewertet. Eine Spurensuche, die um die halbe Welt führt: zu einer ägyptischen Exiljournalistin in Berlin, die bedroht wird. Nach Brüssel, wo hochrangige Mitarbeiter der EU-Kommission betroffen sind. Nach Washington, wo Politiker ein Sicherheitsrisiko für US-Agenten in Europa sehen. Oder an die ukrainische Front, wo Soldaten in den Datensätzen ihre eigenen Stellungen wiedererkennen.
GroĂźe ARD-Doku: Achtung, Datenhandel! Lebensgefahr!
(April 7, 2026)
Es geht um Milliarden Standortdaten von ahnungslosen Handy-Nutzer*innen, oftmals metergenau. Angeblich nur zu Werbezwecken erhoben, fließen die Daten über populäre Handy-Apps auf teils verschlungenen Wegen in die Hände von Databrokern. Potenziell betroffen sind alle Menschen, die ein Smartphone nutzen.
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Zur Erinnerung: Das Recherche-Team hat die Daten kostenlos von einem Databroker im Netz erhalten. Prinzipiell zugänglich sind solche Daten für alle, die Datenhändler danach fragen. Für einen vierstelligen Betrag im Monat können Interessierte ein Abonnement abschließen.
Digital location data heads back to the Supreme Court
(April 24, 2026)
Background
The Supreme Court last weighed in on the digital Fourth Amendment in 2017. In Carpenter v. United States, the court addressed whether the police had to get a warrant before accessing a certain kind of digital location data, cell-site location information. Cell phones generate CSLI anytime they are on by scanning for the nearest cell tower with strong service. When a cell phone connects to a tower, that tower then records that connection in CSLI logs. A phone’s location can be tracked across time and space by reviewing those logs.
Writing for a 5-4 majority, Chief Justice John Roberts’ Carpenter opinion held that the police must get a warrant before reviewing seven or more days of CSLI for a person’s phone. (…)
Enter: geofence data
Among these unsettled questions is whether police need a warrant to access geofence data, another kind of digital location data. Geofence data generally refers to location information collected by cellphone apps. If you have encountered a prompt on your phone that asks you whether you’d like to allow an app to use your location, you’re likely generating the kind of data at issue in Chatrie. Chatrie specifically involved data generated by a Google service called Location History. In Google’s case, this location information was created by combining information from cell towers but also on GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth signals.
PowerHammer: Exfiltrating Data From Air-Gapped Computers Through Power Lines
(April 2018)
In this paper we provide an implementation, evaluation, and analysis of PowerHammer, a malware (bridgeware [1]) that uses power lines to exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers. In this case, a malicious code running on a compromised computer can control the power consumption of the system by intentionally regulating the CPU utilization. Data is modulated, encoded, and transmitted on top of the current flow fluctuations, and then it is conducted and propagated through the power lines. This phenomena is known as a ‚conducted emission‘. We present two versions of the attack. Line level powerhammering: In this attack, the attacker taps the in-home power lines1 that are directly attached to the electrical outlet. Phase level power-hammering: In this attack, the attacker taps the power lines at the phase level, in the main electrical service panel. In both versions of the attack, the attacker measures the emission conducted and then decodes the exfiltrated data. We describe the adversarial attack model and present modulations and encoding schemes along with a transmission protocol. We evaluate the covert channel in different scenarios and discuss signal-to-noise (SNR), signal processing, and forms of interference. We also present a set of defensive countermeasures. Our results show that binary data can be covertly exfiltrated from air-gapped computers through the power lines at bit rates of 1000 bit/sec for the line level power-hammering attack and 10 bit/sec for the phase level power-hammering attack.
Hackers found a way to steal data from air gapped networks using powerlines
(8th May 2018)
Hot on the heels of exploits that use fan noise, infra red cameras, heat, LED lights and drones, magnetic fields and smartphones, and a multitude of other hacks to gain access to sensitive air gapped computer systems, the researchers from Israel’s Ben Gurion University have shown once again that air-gapped networks are not safe from a determined and patient attacker.
The researchers have already devised several devious techniques to extract data from isolated or air-gapped computers that store highly sensitive data and now their latest technique, dubbed PowerHammer, exploits current fluctuations flowing through the power lines supplying electricity to air-gapped computers.
The researchers have been able to exfiltrate data at a rate of 1,000 bits per second for lines connected to the target computer and 10 bits per second from the grid.
Securing the green grid: A data anomaly detection method for mitigating cyberattacks on smart meter measurements
(September 2024)
Smart meters, being a vital component in the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), provide an opportunity to remotely monitor and control power usage and act like a bridge between customers and utilities. The installation of millions of smart meters in the power grid is a step forward towards a green transition. However, it also constitutes a massive cybersecurity vulnerability. Cyberattacks on AMI can result in inaccurate billing, energy theft, service disruptions, privacy breaches, network vulnerabilities, and malware distribution.