Be careful what you click on- emails from your fax or copy machine coming through? could be dangerous. If you have printed or faxed documents coming via email, be sure you know what YOUR machine headers should look like. Same is true for voicemail. Most phone systems will email you copies of your latest voicemail messages- don’t click on one unless you know it came from your system.

This from security researcher Graham Cluley

Email from your photocopier? It could be a malware attack

Twenty years ago, the first Word macro malware spread across the planet.

Embedded inside a Word document, and rather unhelpfully given a kick start by being shipped on a Microsoft CD ROM, the Concept virus proved that people were much more willing to open unsolicited .DOC files than something more obviously suspicious like an .EXE attachment.

It would be great to think that after two decades […]

During the well publicized prison escape in June of last year, by Richard Matt and David Sweat, a number of phones were tapped to help track down the convicts.  New York Criminal Procedure Law section 700.50(3)  statute states those whose phones are tapped must be notified no later than 90 days after the warrants are terminated. A number of residents received a letter dated Dec. 18, 2015 informing them that their conversations had been intercepted.

Letter informing some residents that their phones had been tapped.

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y., WPTZ.com —Some North Country residents are receiving notification that their phones were tapped during the manhunt for escaped convicts Richard Matt and David Sweat.

Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie confirmed Friday that the eavesdropping warrants were issued. The warrants were issued June 7 by New York Supreme Court Appellate Judge John Lahtinen in Plattsburgh. A viewer sent WPTZ NewsChannel 5 a […]

Beware of suspicious activity in any workplace. Spy-shops make hidden cameras and eavesdropping devices readily available. This individual was clearly disturbed, but probably functioned “normally” in his work.  He had placed spy-shop clock-cameras in a life-guard shack where he worked. Some of the victims realized the clocks were recording devices by Googling the brand name found on the clocks. Some cameras may not be so easy to identify or detect and may require professional assistance. Contact us if you have concerns about covert video in your workplace.

Reported from CTpost.com, 1/7/2016

…29-year-old Michael Collins was secretly photographing female colleagues — using tiny cameras hidden in clocks — as they undressed for work. He later pasted the photos of their faces and naked bodies on a collage in his bedroom.

Collins also took numerous photos of women and children on the beach, focusing on the buttocks and breasts of the women, according to police.

When the victim believed he was being followed, he made a call to police who asked him to give his car a physical inspection. After he found the device the police detectives arranged to follow him until they saw the private investigator following as well.

The GPS technology was not illegal, but Louisiana state law bans the use of a tracking device without the knowledge or consent of the person being followed.

The Times-Picayune of New Orleans

Gretna police arrested a River Ridge private investigator accused of illegally installing a tracking device on the vehicle on a man he was following. David Centanni, 38, put the GPS device on a truck belonging to an unidentified Gretna resident about two weeks ago because he was trying to serve civil paperwork, according to Gretna Police Deputy Chief Anthony Christiana.

The resident contacted police Tuesday, nervous about a man that seemed to be following him, Christiana said. Despite […]