Hacker’s App Automates Over-The-Shoulder iPad Spying

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Shoulder surfing, the simple act of leering over a computer users’ shoulder to spy on passwords and other sensitive info, may not seem like the most advanced hacker trick. But when it comes to shoulder surfing Apple’s iPad, Haroon Meer has it down to a science.

Earlier this week, the South African security researcher announced that he’d built shoulderPad, an app for Mac OS, jailbroken iPhones and iPads that’s designed to auto-snoop on iPad users’ passwords by watching their touchscreen keyboards. Simply pretend to be fiddling with your phone or tablet a few meters away from an iPad user while he or she enters their PIN or password, and shoulderPad can uses your device’s camera to read and interpret the target’s keystrokes.

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Apple and Developers Sued Over Alleged 'Spying' Apps

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Apple and several developers are facing two separate lawsuits filed for allegedly allowing apps on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch to gather information on users and allowing third-party advertisers access to personal information. The collection and unauthorized sharing of private user data was the subject of the first lawsuit, Freeman vs. Apple, filed in northern California federal court, which targets such applications as Pandora, Dictionary.com, the Weather Channel, Toss It, Text4Plus, Talking Tom Cat and Pimple Popper Lite.

The second lawsuit, Lalo vs. Apple, filed in Federal court in San Jose, CA, seeks a class-action status for anyone who has downloaded an allegedly offending app between December 2008 and last week. Lalo vs. Apple targets Pandora, Paper Toss, the Weather Channel and Dictionary.com. Apple wasn't the only party sued. The developers who made the aforementioned applications were also named in the lawsuits.

Read more: http://technorati.com/technology/article/apple-and-developers-sued-over-alleged/#ixzz19tDCnp3r

iPod Shuffle Spy Camera

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Believe it or not this is a spy cam. Yup, it looks just like the recently released iPod Shuffle, so it should have no problems fitting it. To the right of the controls is a pinhole that contains a small camera that can capture 640×480 video. Unlike the actual Apple device this one contains an SD card slot and can play your favorite MP3s while you record all sorts of nefarious activities. The only downside is that the battery will last for just one hour when in full operation.

Apple boss charged with spying

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Apple's secret police have discovered that a senior executive was filing secrets to East Asia and after questioning in Room 101 have dragged him to court to confess.

Paul Shin Devine, a global supply manager at technology company Apple since 2005, has been charged in California with taking kickbacks he received after leaking corporate secrets to Asian companies that supplied iPhone and iPod accessories.

His name was given to the federal authorities by Jobs' Mob who is also suing him for receiving more than $1 million in payments and bribes over several years.

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