A cellular wiretapping device that simulates a cell tower. Pronounced "im-zee catcher," it logs the phone's International Mobile Subscriber Identity number (IMSI) and functions like a ...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement paid $825,000 this year for surveillance tech that can spy on nearby mobile phones. TechCrunch identified the contract, which "provides Cell Site Simulator (CSS) ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a new software tool that it hopes can alert people (such as protesters) when someone (such as police) may be operating an IMSI catcher (commonly ...
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed for the first time that it is aware of unauthorized cell-site simulators, the surveillance tools often called stingrays or IMSI Catchers, in ...
Police forces in England and Wales will able to refuse to say whether they use surveillance equipment – known as IMSI-catchers -- that are capable of monitoring thousands of mobile phones, following a ...
These days, if you’re walking around with a cellphone, you’ve basically fitted an always-on tracking device to your person. That’s even more the case if there happens to be an eavesdropping device in ...