News reports from Russia's state-owned channel Rossiya 24 showed footage of a technician opening up an iron included in a batch of Chinese imports to find a "spy chip" with "a little microphone" embedded into it. These hidden, embedded electronic chips are scanning and connecting to any computer within a 200m radius with unprotected Wi-Fi networks, once connected these "Trojan devices" were being used to spread viruses.
While the report says that the malware is being used to send SPAM, piggy-banking on infected computer's internet connection and resources without the owner's knowledge about it, our recent story "Hidden Backdoor In Your Internet Router - With Love, From China !!" and the fact that the rogue devices had "an microphone" further establishes the fact that these are or can be used for spying. The researchers also found other products having these rogue components including mobile phones, car dashboard cameras and electric kettles.
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Chinese telecom companies have been accused of embedding spying technologies into enterprise level telecom hardware for Chinese government, now a new research done by embedded device hacker "Craig Heffner" unearthed that consumer level internet router's made by Chinese companies come bundled with a secret backdoor which allows full root level access to the consumer router.
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PDF remains the best file format for sending, sharing, printing and archiving electronic documents. While its universal formatting and viewing features are unsurpassed, it is not so convenient for making changes. So, as much as we like receiving documents in PDF because we know we’ll be able to view the document as intended, with all the text, images and hyperlinks in their proper places, we get a headache when we receive a PDF that we need to modify. In many cases people start creating new documents and manually typing information from the PDF file in order to get the job done.
