Private detectives hired by Deutsche Bank AG tried to place an intern at a law firm to gather information about businessman Leo Kirch, according to a letter by a German data-protection regulator. The security firm in 2006 asked a lawyer to apply for an internship at Munich-based Bub Gauweiler & Partner, which represents Kirch in…
RIM fights BlackBerry snoop gaffe
RIM, maker of the BlackBerry mobile phone, has told the Reg that Etisalat is talking tosh and the BlackBerry remains a secure platform, after the United Arab Emirates operator “patched” the device with surveillance software. The “patch” which Etisalat sent out last week was actually a surveillance application, designed to make copies of received e-mails,…
Green Party candidate’s e-mail hacked
Local Green Party candidate Peter Ellis received a lesson in Internet safety recently after his e-mail account was hacked and used as part of an online fraud. Someone hacked into Ellis’ Hotmail account and used it to send out a request for money under the bogus premise that it was needed for an emergency medical…
NotW bosses fight back over hacking claims
Tory communications boss Andy Coulson has assured MPs that he played no part in either condoning or facilitating phone hacking while editor of the News of the World. Coulson quit as NoTW editor in 2007 after the paper’s royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, and a private investigator accomplice, Glen Mulcaire, were jailed for hacking into the…