‘We’re recovering sounds from objects,’ said lead researcher Abe Davis in a statement. ‘That gives us a lot of information about the sound that’s going on around the object, but it also gives us a lot of information about the object itself, because different objects are going to respond to sound in different ways.’

Typically this technique requires a high-speed camera recording separate video […]

ANCHORAGE, AK — A group of researchers studying sea lions in Round Island, Alaska, saw a fox coming along. Being the curious people they are, they decided to set up a video camera to record the animal.

Unfortunately, the fox was more aware of its surroundings than the sea lions. The animal immediately spots the camera, chomps down on it and tries to carry it away to eat later.

After a brief chase, the researchers were able to recover the camera. The fox managed to chew off part of the lens.

Working in any aspect of security can have it’s own dangers. Brian Krebs, known for his cyber security blog KrebsOnSecurity.com was the target of a cybercrook known as “Fly”.  Brian, though, was good enough to uncover the identity of the bad guy. The “Fly” was arrested in Naples, Italy, earlier this month.

From Brian Krebs, Krebsonsecurity.com:

A Ukrainian man who claimed responsibility for organizing a campaign to send heroin to my home last summer has been arrested in Italy on suspicion of trafficking in stolen credit card accounts, among other things, KrebsOnSecurity.com has learned.

Passport photo for Sergei “Fly” Vovnenko. He was arrested in Naples, Italy earlier this month.

The only thing I knew about Fly then was that he was the founder and administrator of a closely-guarded Russian-language crime forum called thecc.bz (the “cc” part referring to credit cards). Fly also […]

Searching for bugs or hidden transmitters requires radio direction finding techniques, usually deployed for TSCM in a small area such as a conference room or office environment. Similar techniques are used on a larger scale for such things as search and rescue, locating radio interference, as well as finding hidden transmitters. Ham radio clubs often have “fox hunts” to practice these direction finding techniques.

SALISBURY, NC (Salisbury Post) — In an emergency, being able to locate a lost person or find an enemy might save lives. U.S. Marines know this, and their training prepares them for a world of possibilities.

But there are some things classroom training can’t teach, which is why Sgt. Phillip Rice and 12 other Marines traveled from Camp Lejeune to Salisbury on Saturday. Rice said he tries to locate opportunities for hands-on training that will help members of his unit, the […]

New York Times, World; By MARK MAZZETTI and JUSTIN ELLIOTT (Dec 9, 2013)

Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly disclosed classified documents.

Fearing that terrorist or criminal networks could use the games to communicate secretly, move money or plot attacks, the documents show, intelligence operatives have entered terrain populated by digital avatars that include elves, gnomes and supermodels.

The spies have created make-believe characters to snoop and to try to recruit informers, while also collecting data and contents of communications between players, according to the documents, disclosed by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden. Because militants often rely on features common to video games — fake identities, […]

An article on ZDNet provides a good summary of who might be attacking your network, along with tips for fighting back.
Problems could easily come from any of the following:

Employees 
IT workers 
CEOs and small business owners 
State-sponsored actors 
Corporate espionage 
Wannabes and thrill seekers 
Software developers 

[Full Article] Field guide: Types of people behind today’s corporate security threats

…For an example of how serious corporate espionage can be, one need look no further than Nortel, the former telecommunications giant that declared bankruptcy in 2009. In 2012, The Wall Street Journal reported that hackers, who appeared to be working in China, used stolen passwords from Nortel executives to “downloaded technical papers, research-and-development reports, business plans, employee emails and other documents.” Brian Shields, a former 19-year Nortel employee and systems […]

Dr. Ivan Poupyrev is a Principle Research Scientist for Disney Research in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Among other creative projects, he has developed a method for transferring audio through the human body by modulating an electric charge in the body.  The audio cannot be heard unless the charged up person touches someone’s ear (or other amplification device). His creation is called Ishin-Denshin, which is a Japanese expression for communicating through an unspoken medium.

Here is a description of Ishin-denshin from Dr. Poupyrev’s web site 

Ishin-Den-Shin: Transmitting Sound via Touch

This project explores the use of human body as an analogue sound transmission medium. Called “Ishin-Den-Shin,” a Japanese expression for communicating through an unspoken mutual understanding, i.e. non-verbal communication, the technology turns an audio message into an inaudible signal that is relayed by the human body. When the communicator’s finger slightly rubs an object, this physical interaction creates an ad hoc […]