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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 [...]
Where do you keep your passwords? Posted on your monitor for all to see on a TV documentary?
Reported in The Hacker News, the passwords and login credentials for a London railway station were posted on the top of a computer monitor and broadcast on a BBC TV documentary. Company security policies should include never displaying your credentials where they might be viewed by unauthorized [...]
US using anti-spy laws to fight trade secret theft
DES MOINES, Iowa—The criminal trial of a Chinese executive accused of stealing high-tech U.S. corn seeds is turning into a battle over the federal government’s use of an anti-spying law to fight industrial espionage. U.S. prosecutors say Mo Hailong, an official with a Chinese agriculture [...]
Give us our daily bread… with cell phone inside.
Smuggling cell phones into secure areas can be a problem for security at prisons as well as in boardrooms or other confidential meetings. Perpetrators can go to great lengths to get access for the contraband items. An inmate in a prison in Perth received a [...]