Corporate Espionage and Countermeasures News
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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 [...]
ACLU Forces Reveal of How Stingray Cell Phone Tracking Works
Stingray cell phone tracker Back in February, the ACLU filed a motion to unseal transcripts of a case where Tallahassee Police Department used the Stingray to track a cell phone to a suspect's apartment. The judge recently unsealed the entire transcript. The part [...]
Marines from Camp Lejeune train with local amateur radio operators for radio direction finding.
Searching for bugs or hidden transmitters requires radio direction finding techniques, usually deployed for TSCM in a small area such as a conference room or office environment. Similar techniques are used on a larger scale for such things as search and rescue, locating radio interference, [...]
“We can neither confirm or deny… our first tweet” – @CIA
The NSA may be listening, but the CIA is talking... err, tweeting. If you thought they were following you, now you can follow them. www.azcentral.com WASHINGTON — For a spy agency that likes to blend into the background, the CIA's debut on Twitter has revealed [...]
$40,000 eavesdropping investigation at University of Colorado
There is a need to tighten up policies and procedures regarding conference calls. An assistant to CU's fundraising officer listened in on conference call of a closed door executive session of the Board of Directors. The story is not even so much about what was heard, [...]
Did you know? How phone buttons got their order.
This video helps explain how the touch-tone pad we see on most telephones was designed. It's interesting to see how much planning went into something we tend to take for granted. https://youtu.be/kCSzjExvbTQ