Corporate Espionage and Countermeasures News
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Corporate printer vulnerability via wifi – using drones and a Roomba…
Corporate offices often have centralized printers connected to their wired network for shared printing. That can sometimes be inconvenient so what's a good assistant to do? Run out to the local office supply store to pick up an inexpensive desktop printer. These printers usually have wifi [...]
Dissident Chinese artist finds his studio was bugged
Ai Weiwei has posted a number of pictures of what he says are listening devices found in his Beijing studio. The Chinese dissident artist captioned one photo of a bug on Instagram with "There will always be surprises". His friend Liu Xiaoyuan confirmed the bugs were found [...]
Old Israeli spy device found by Lebanese army
Times of Israel reports artificial rock containing camera, four batteries found in town near border; device said to date from before Israel’s withdrawal in 2001. A device concealed in an artificial rock in the southern Lebanese town of Bani Hayyan. According to the Lebanese Army, the [...]
Pennsylvania man admits to wiretapping and harassment
Pennsylvania is one of the twelve "all-party-consent" states, requiring that for a recording of a conversation to be legal, all parties in the conversation must give their consent to the recording. Defendant in this case recorded calls on his cell phone without the other parties' [...]
Philip Morris heiress claims estranged husband hacked her iPhone with spy app
From The Daily Mail Anne Resnik is the daughter of late Philip Morris CEO Frank Resnik She claims Crocker Coulson, father of her six-year-old twins, bugged her Coulson 'installed mSpy on her iPhone then accused her of cheating' He then 'left the app installed for [...]
Winning at chess- use spy technology and Morse code.
Italian chess player allegedly uses a spy pendant containing a hidden camera to cheat during Italian tournament (www.telegraph.co.uk) An Italian chess player has been expelled from one of Italy’s most important tournaments after he allegedly used Morse code and a spy pendant containing a hidden [...]
Visual hacking- something worth looking at
The new iPhone 6s touts a 12 megapixel camera and the Samsung Galaxy S6 a 16 megapixel camera. You can get a lot of detail with such a camera. It may be time for corporations to re-think their employee policies and restrict photography to help [...]
Sports: Ex-Patriots hinted that the locker room may be bugged – says Tony Dungy
from Sportsgrid.com On Thursday’s “Dan Patrick Show,” Tony Dungy — a regular on the program — casually threw out a very disconcerting bit of information about the Patriots’ intelligence gathering procedures. He made a point to say that this kind of stuff — which essentially [...]
Japan: Government taking steps to fight industrial espionage
The Yomiuri Shimbun The National Police Agency will soon team up with the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry to fight industrial espionage. Joint measures will include visits by police officers to about 10,000 domestic corporations with cutting-edge technology to give them advice, according to NPA [...]
FBI offers video with insight into economic espionage
The FBI has recently produced a video called "The Company Man: Protecting America's Secrets" that illustrates how a US company was targeted by foreign agents and how the company worked with the FBI to set up a sting operation to catch the perpetrators. "Economic espionage [...]