Corporate Espionage and Countermeasures News
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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 [...]
Voicemail as a cyber attack vector
Modern phone systems, both VOIP and premise based PBX, can offer voicemail to email conversion, so that when a message is left in your voicemail box, the system will send you an email with the message recording as an attachment for you to click on to [...]
German officials use disposable phones over eavesdropping fears
from Deutsche Welle www.dw.com Advice worth considering for any confidential assignments, especially overseas. German officials are now using disposable mobile phones when they travel overseas, 'Der Spiegel' magazine has reported. The move comes following concerns about eavesdropping foreigners. The so-called "burner" phones have been used [...]
Canada’s new spy palace glass walls could allow eavesdropping
If your building boasts beautiful large glass walls and windows, you may want to follow Canada's CSEC's plan and find ways to darken the glass to prevent spying eyes. From the Ottawa Citizen: The government’s new billion-dollar spy palace in Ottawa has a problem that doesn’t [...]
Article: Economic Espionage- Is Your Competition Hacking You?
This article was originally posted to LinkedIn by Marcus Eagan, CEO and Founder at Nodal Industries. Nodal produces the network security device, Numa. Corporate espionage is on the rise. For those unfamiliar with the term – also commonly referred to as industrial or economic espionage – corporate espionage [...]