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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 [...]
Waitergate, bug in the bread basket: A year later, four Polish government ministers and the speaker of parliament resign
From The Washington Post, 6/11/15 It began with something so small: a tiny microphone hidden near a dining table in a fancy Warsaw restaurant. But after the bug caught Polish government ministers discussing private deals, Cuban cigars and off-color jokes — including a comparison of U.S.-Poland relations to [...]
Aircraft security: forgotten reports say French spies bugged Concorde passengers
Corporate aircraft should regularly be swept for listening devices. It is a misconception to think that just because they are up in the air that conversations would be safe from eavesdroppers. Recording devices, hidden microphones and video cameras, and even Wifi enabled devices could make [...]
Protecting your meetings: No Cell Phones Allowed; Steps to Consider
Security firm G4S began confiscating smart phones from share holders and journalists at it's 2015 AGM (Annual General Meeting) in London after activists used them to record their protests and removal by security staff at last year's event. Such events can not only be disruptive [...]
Tech alert: GOOGLE TONE Shares Links Using Beeps and Boops
If your computer starts sounding like R2D2, it may be sharing links to others within earshot. https://youtu.be/_FT6u2JDGyY A report from Popular Science discusses a new Chrome extension that lets a computer share a URL with another computer using tones. Popular Science, Jason Cipriani Google [...]
NYC pranksters publish secretly-recorded public conversations to make point about privacy
WeAreAlwaysListening.com says: Eavesdropping on the population has revealed many saying “I’m not doing anything wrong so who cares if the NSA tracks what I say and do?” Citizens don’t seem to mind this monitoring, so we’re hiding recorders in public places in hopes of gathering [...]
South Africa: Increased corporate espionage concerns
Times Live, Graeme Hosken Industrial espionage is at an all-time high in South Africa, with an increase in requests for debugging services coming from gaming firms, research and development companies and those tendering for multimillion-rand contracts. Driving fear in the world of Spy vs Spy [...]
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy in devastating phone bugging setback
Mirror.co.uk A Paris court says judges were correct to order the tapping of the former French President's phones. Compelling evidence Nicolas Sarkozy had been in the pay of Colonel Gaddafi meant judges were correct to order his phones to be bugged, the Paris appeals court [...]