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Where do you keep your passwords? Posted on your monitor for all to see on a TV documentary?
Reported in The Hacker News, the passwords and login credentials for a London railway station were posted on the top of a computer monitor and broadcast on a BBC TV documentary. Company security policies should include never displaying your credentials where they might be viewed by unauthorized [...]
US using anti-spy laws to fight trade secret theft
DES MOINES, Iowa—The criminal trial of a Chinese executive accused of stealing high-tech U.S. corn seeds is turning into a battle over the federal government’s use of an anti-spying law to fight industrial espionage. U.S. prosecutors say Mo Hailong, an official with a Chinese agriculture [...]
Give us our daily bread… with cell phone inside.
Smuggling cell phones into secure areas can be a problem for security at prisons as well as in boardrooms or other confidential meetings. Perpetrators can go to great lengths to get access for the contraband items. An inmate in a prison in Perth received a [...]
Future watch: secure fiber optics
Scientists Create Secure Communications By Slowing Down Light Ubergizmo.com Have you always wanted a more secure way of transmitting your information and not be worried about it being intercepted or eavesdropped along the way? While there are various security measures available at the moment, such [...]
Turkish beauty queen’s bedroom ‘bugged by in-laws’
Hurrieyt Daily News A former Turkish beauty queen has sued her former in-laws for bugging her bedroom with the help of her ex-husband, according to a local media report. Sinem Sülün and the bug in the power socket. Sinem Sülün, who was crowned [...]
“Spy Wednesday” – Trusted advisors can become internal threats- for thirty pieces of silver.
The Wednesday before Easter is known to many as "Spy Wednesday". It is recognized as the day on which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus. It can serve as a reminder that internal threats and betrayal can lead to very serious damages indeed! Judas receives thirty pieces [...]
Smart phones not limited to smart people. Stupid criminals can still use technology.
Everyone seems to like stupid criminal stories. Wanted by police in Maine for theft of a wood stove, Christopher Wallace announced his location on Snapchat. One of his trusty followers was kind enough to report it to police. While the police were searching his girlfriend's [...]
Walkie-talkies lead to eavesdropping accusations at SF Zoo
Many modern two-way radios have a feature that can allow a supervisor to remotely turn on the transmitter of one of the units of the connected radios. The user of that radio will be automatically put into hands-free communication with the supervisor or with others in [...]
Tap, tap, tap, “is this thing on?”, from embarrassment to murder conviction- check your mic, you may be bugged.
Robert Durst should have paid more attention to Leslie Nielson in "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!". For those who missed it, check out the clip below to see the type of embarrassment that can come from forgetting that your microphone is still [...]
Covert cameras found at Denver area Post Office
FOX31 Denver: Mysterious spy cameras collecting data at post offices DENVER — Within an hour of FOX31 Denver discovering a hidden camera, which was positioned to capture and record the license plates and facial features of customers leaving a Golden Post Office, the device was ripped from [...]