Showing posts with label Skype spies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skype spies. Show all posts

Monday, March 11, 2013

Skype spying on computers of Skype users


Researcher Jeffrey Knockel from the University of New Mexico established the existence of censorship mechanism in the Chinese version of Skype, the publication reported Businessweek.

According Nokela, Chinese Skype distribution contains a module with built-in keylogger, checks the text that they contain undesirable words, and send collected logs supposedly secret services.

It is worth noting that China has the exclusive right to distribute Skype has local distribution company TOM-Skype, a daughter of Chinese Internet provider TOM Online.

The list of banned words for Chinese users Nokelu been set, watching the activity of your network when entering presumably censor words. In addition, he was able to find meaningful sequence of characters in the analysis of daily updated encrypted database keywords.