Corporate Espionage and Countermeasures News
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NC: City Hall installs cameras AND listening devices.
Southport, NC, City Hall appears proud to have a new security system- 8 cameras AND listening devices. I guess they may have not paid attention to problems other city offices have faced around the country. University of California Police Department and Nelson, NH City Hall are [...]
Pennsylvania “All Party Consent” rule stops judge, alleges eavsedropping
Are recording systems running in your conference rooms? Make sure you treat recordings responsibly and know your laws. Microphones can be very sensitive, picking up unintended conversations. A courtroom in Stroudsburg, PA has a sensitive recording system in place, but Pennsylvania is one of the few (12) states [...]
UC Police say bosses eavesdropped on them
Take-away: if you have a video system that also records audio, then you'd better make sure all of your employees have agreed to be monitored, or else disable the audio. Whether or not the UC police surveillance system was used nefariously, once people (especially the [...]
CIA has a new clue to it’s own personal puzzle.
from WIRED magazine, 11/20/2014 In 1989, the year the Berlin Wall began to fall, American artist Jim Sanborn was busy working on his Kryptos sculpture, a cryptographic puzzle wrapped in a riddle that he created for the CIA’s headquarters and that has been driving amateur [...]
Australia: Obama strips down entire hotel floor to search for bugs and listening devices
Hotels can be fertile ground for eavesdropping. Security teams for executives as well as politicians should consider hotel TSCM sweeps to be part of their standard protocol especially when important meetings are planned. Brisbane, Australia, via DailyMail, Nov 9, 2014 U.S. security officials have stripped [...]
X FACTOR judge Louis Walsh is convinced his dressing room is bugged.
DailyStar Louis Walsh believes that recording gear has been hidden in his room at Wembley Stadium to sabotage his chances. And he is so obsessed about it he makes anyone who comes to see him go into the toilet when they want to talk to him. [...]
Alabama man indicted for installing eavesdropping device.
Baby monitors are at it again Times Daily, Florence, AL, By Tom Smith Senior Staff Writer FLORENCE — Police said a Florence man has been indicted for breaking into his ex-girlfriend's apartment, installing an eavesdropping device and stalking her. Court officials said indictments have been issued [...]
Business travel safety brochure, courtesy of the FBI
The FBI offers a printable two page travel safety brochure with helpful tips for keeping executives safe and secure during international trips. It emphasizes the need to take corporate espionage seriously: Corporate espionage is an increasingly serious threat for a business traveler. The perpetrator may [...]
Darkhotel points to the need for TSCM sweeps to enhance cyber security
The Darkhotel cyber threat highlights the need for corporations to take regular TSCM sweeps seriously. Darkhotel, so named by Kaspersky Labs, is a malware attack that has been operating at least since 2009, focusing on executives visiting hotels especially in Asia. A key element in these reports, [...]
“Here’s looking at you, kid…” Are your web enabled cameras safe? Many are not.
A fairly new website has caused a recent stir. Insecam.com provides links to thousands of webcams around the world. It has been mentioned in recent news reports ranging from Lifehacker and CNET, to the UK Daily Mail, PC World, and more. Vulnerable webcams are not something new, though, [...]