Corporate Espionage and Countermeasures News
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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 [...]
SC Mayor arrested on wiretap charges- when computer hacking is not enough…
Mayor Rodney Turner of Lyman, South Carolina was arrested along with an associate on computer hacking and wiretap charges. It is important to recognize that while cyber crime receives the majority of attention these days, oral communication is still very much at risk and needs [...]
Louisiana: bugged picture frame eavesdrops on office conversations.
Detention center secretary, trying to be a whistle blower, secretly recorded her supervisor's conversations by placing a recording device behind a picture frame in his office. Regardless of intentions, the article indicates how easy it is to eavesdrop by hiding a recording device in an office or [...]
Windows 10 security concern. Windows 10 wants to share your WiFi key through “WiFi Sense”
An article in The Register explains that a new Windows 10 feature could be opening up your wifi for others to use without your knowledge. A Windows 10 feature, Wi-Fi Sense, smells like a security risk: it can share access to Wi-Fi networks with the user's [...]
Charges stand against woman who bugged diaper bag.
The CIA is known to have used fake poop for passing information, I don't think I ever heard of them bugging a diaper bag, though. The Ogden, Utah, Standard Examiner reports that slipping a recorder into a child's diaper bag was not a good idea [...]
Eavesdropping via a “pocket dial” ruled ok.
A case reported on last year here, where a woman received a butt-dial call from her boss and recorded the ensuing conversation, has the appeals court now ruling in favor of the one who did the eavesdropping- they found the person who made the accidental call should have [...]