Corporate Espionage and Countermeasures News
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American Idol winner, Laine Hardy, arrested for eavsdropping.
"How to damage your career in one easy lesson." For those thinking of eavesdropping... best advice: Don't Do It! Country singer Laine Hardy was arrested Friday on a charge of eavesdropping. Hardy, who won Season 17 of “American Idol” in 2019, turned himself in to the Louisiana [...]
Unauthorized cameras planted in tanning area of gym.
If your customers or your employees use a gym, locker room, tanning bed, at your facility, what steps have you taken to ensure that privacy? Tanning salons in Plymouth, Michigan, are finding out the hard way that not taking preventative measures may have severe repercussions.
Spies for the PRC charged with planting cameras and surveillance devices in residence of dissident.
The defendants electronically spied on pro-democracy activists. Posing as an art dealer interested in purchasing the artwork of the dissident artist, they secretly installed surveillance cameras and GPS devices at the dissident’s workplace and in his car which were monitored in the PRC. [Click to read more]
Are tech employees leaving and going to competitors?
Keeping loyalty among employees can be a difficult challenge, but may also be critical to survival of your business as well as stopping leaks, spying, and other forms of corporate espionage. Often requests for our corporate TSCM service come when a well placed employee [...]
Update! Student research, student spying, university sports spying, and more.
Finally - a new update for the Exec Security News. More audio surveillance research from Ben Gurion University. Student caught spying, coach caught spying, and victims catch up with the spy.
Tech watch: New style “shotgun” mic
Microphones come in all shapes and sizes. Some may be very small and used in covert applications. Others may just take on unique designs. This mic clearly adds the humorous effect, but it does go to show that microphones can be designed in any shape or size.
Eavesdropping and spy updates, September 2021
Where the wild spys are... Eavesdropping can be a concern for all areas, corporate espionage, sports, and celebrities. Your office may be a target, of course, but recent news also includes concerns for Peyton Manning as well as Britney Spears.
When the insider becomes an outsider- Terminated employee destroys company data.
Insider threats are one of the most significant security concerns for all businesses. Many companies do not recognize the dangers that may exist within their own staff. This can quickly become apparent when an employee with a grudge is terminated. This employee was with the company for just 6 months, but was able to cause over $100,000 in damage within two days of her termination.
Threat watch: “Glowworm” attack using power LEDs
Researchers at Ben Gurion University have demonstrated a new class of TEMPEST attack for intercepting confidential information. Their technique involves recovering sound by analyzing optical emanations from a device’s power indicator LED, specifically in the circuits providing power to various speaker systems. Could your conversations be vulnerable?
Spy Stories: Interview with Jonna Mendez, Former CIA Chief of Disguise
Interview with Jonna Mendez, former CIA Chief of Disguise from Wired Magazine. Being a spy has always been difficult. During the Cold War, being a spy in Moscow was especially hard...