Corporate Espionage and Countermeasures News
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Move over Furby, Eavesdropping Barbie is here.
A number of years ago, while performing an electronic countermeasures sweep in a Manhattan apartment, our non-linear junction detector (locates hidden electronics) alerted to one Barbie doll that was on display among a few other dolls. To further inspect the Barbie to be sure there was no [...]
Spoofing the boss’ email nets big profit.
Report from Brian Krebs www.krebsonsecurity.com explains how scammers are spoofing emails pretending to be from heads of corporations and requesting funds through wire transfer. Known variously as “CEO fraud,” and the “business email compromise,” this swindle is a sophisticated and increasingly common one targeting businesses [...]
Eavesdropping through web service- spoofed phone calls; NJ corrections deputy director on trial.
Just as employees, secretaries, and anyone handling confidential information need to be aware of phishing and spoof email scams, they should also be attentive to any phone calls that come through odd or suspicious circumstances. Kirk Eady, a Hudson County Corrections deputy director, is on trial in [...]
Automotive industrial spy for hire
Brenda Priddy takes photos, good ones, of cars, and they're in great demand. She is careful not to break any laws. Her targets are out in the open on public roads and highways, usually found in Death Valley. That is where many car manufacturers test [...]
Canada kicks out spies, sending them where? Mostly to the US…
Spying is a two way street. An article in OurWindsor.ca reveals that during the past decade, Canada has given the boot to 21 spies, 5 of them returned to the US. From 2004 to 2014 Ottawa sent back to the U.S. five of a total [...]
Ponemon Institute study: Low tech information theft successful nine times out of ten
"Factors that made a noticeable difference in the amount of information collected were clean desk policies, standardized document shredding policies, suspicious reporting processes, and mandatory training and awareness." By Maria Korolov, CSO online Researchers were able to get sensitive corporate information just by looking around [...]
The ‘Real-Life Q’
Gizmodo has an interesting interview with Ralph Osterhout, a man who builds spy gadgets for a living, interview by Sean Hollister. As a boy, Osterhout was so enamored with Ian Fleming's Bond novels that he decided to become a spy himself. He trained himself to shoot, [...]
In a ‘nation of eavesdroppers’, everyone can hear you!
If it's trending in Britain, you can be sure it's happening all over. British telecom company O2 surveyed 2000 people about casual eavesdropping. If you don't have a "Cone of Silence", you may need to heed their warning. Here are some of the results from O2's survey: Over [...]
Dating apps pose corporate security risk, says IBM
Reporting by Bill Rigby, Reuters: The millions of people using dating apps on company smartphones could be exposing themselves and their employers to hacking, spying and theft, according to a study by International Business Machines Corp. IBM security researchers said 26 of 41 dating apps they analyzed [...]
LA Confidential; West Hollywood council deputy suspended in eavesdropping case
We're not sure how this eavesdropping was accomplished, whether through a bugging device or perhaps just through the phone. Phone call recording is often a built in feature for phone systems, but can also be performed through the use of external devices. Phone technicians could have [...]