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Prague: Czech-ing for bugs
More and more influential players are resorting to meetings abroad or in secluded areas Prague, July 16 (ČTK) — Czech politicians, lobbyists and influential businessmen are seeking new places safe from bugging for their meetings in reaction to extensive wiretapping not only in offices but also [...]
India: Bugged or not bugged? Media claims possible bugging of Minister of Transport home.
The Sunday Guardian of India claims to have a report from a "highly placed source" that high power bugging devices were found in the bedroom of Nitin Gadkari, senior BJP leader who is also the Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways. The reports are later denied [...]
Listening devices found at Ford HQ; recently fired engineer investigated
from The Detroit News Detroit— The FBI searched Ford Motor Co.’s world headquarters while investigating one of the automaker’s engineers and seized listening devices, computers and financial records, according to search warrants obtained by The News on Thursday. A lawyer for the mechanical engineer said [...]
West Seneca, NY, employees claim conversations were bugged by former boss
from The Buffalo News An accountant resigned from her $42,000-a-year part-time job as West Seneca’s comptroller two months ago after employees accused her and an aide of using a tape recorder to secretly record their workplace conversations. Town officials confirmed that two town employees made [...]
Australia: Bugging probe of Greek Orthodox priest and his home
POLICE are examining alleged threats made to a Greek priest and the bugging of a church house in which he was living. The alleged threats, involving an unnamed priest from the Autocephalic Greek Church of America and Australia, were reported a fortnight ago while the [...]
Saskatchewan: Corrections denies bugging employee staff lounge at jail
Hidden microphones can be found disguised in many places. The final destination of this microphone system was for the inmate areas but they were testing it in the staff lounge, without notifying the staff. If you have any type of audio or video monitoring going [...]
Good guys as targets. Hacker who shipped heroin to cyber security expert gets arrested.
Working in any aspect of security can have it's own dangers. Brian Krebs, known for his cyber security blog KrebsOnSecurity.com was the target of a cybercrook known as "Fly". Brian, though, was good enough to uncover the identity of the bad guy. The "Fly" was arrested [...]
Northern Ireland: Listening device found in vehicle of dissident republican
From BBC.com: A dissident republican from Lurgan, County Armagh, is taking legal action after finding surveillance equipment hidden in his car. The man, who does not want to be named, is a member of the Republican Network for Unity. He discovered what appear to be [...]
Hackers Infiltrate Desk Phones for Epic Office Pranks
Wired Magazine's Andy Greenberg reports how a researcher at security firm SilverSky, along with a friend who was a reverse engineering tech, were able to hack a coworker's phone to play pranks on him to get revenge for some pranking he had done. This resulted in a [...]
Wash. Post: Companies can spend millions on security measures to keep executives safe
By Christian Davenport, Washington Post When he stepped down as the chief executive of Lockheed Martin in 2012, Robert Stevens received a base salary of $1.8 million, millions more in bonuses and incentives, use of the corporate aircraft and another expensive perk: personal security. Lockheed spent $1.3 [...]