Corporate Espionage and Countermeasures News
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Backdoors to stored phone recordings.
“Calls may be monitored for quality assurance…” but also for other reasons such as legal documentation or emergency services and 911 calls. Call recordings can exist for a number of legitimate purposes, using a variety of means and equipment. Not many use actual tape anymore, [...]
Monaco heiress dies from her injuries after mysterious ambush by gunmen
ExecSecurity note: It is worth remembering that most attacks and serious security breaches begin with some form of surveillance taking place. Countermeasures against surveillance are not just for protecting information, it is also for protecting other significant assets including personnel. We will be watching this [...]
Colombia ex-intelligence officers receive extended sentences over wiretapping
2 Colombia ex-intelligence officers receive extended sentences over wiretapping scandal A Colombia judge has decided to increase prison sentences on two former intelligence officers who were already convicted for their roles in a wiretapping scandal that unfolded in 2008, local media reported on Thursday. As more information [...]
New Hampshire town hall checked for bugging devices.
Espionage concerns reach into all levels of politics. We have been called in on cases where a mayor suspected the chief of police may have bugged his office, and where the local police department thought the town council may have bugged their offices. Here we find [...]
CIA spy museum
The top secret CIA Museum only spies can visit. (From the UK Daily Mail.) Tucked away among the labyrinthine corridors of the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia, is the 'coolest museum you will never see'. Hidden from public view, the CIA Museum is comprised [...]
Listening devices found at Herbalife headquarters
Corporations usually do a good job of hiding reports of electronic surveillance, yet it continues to occur. Earlier this month, Fox Business News reported that a number of electronic bugs were found in Herbalife's LA headquarters during the past year. Herbalife would not comment on it [...]
2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, DBIR
The 2014 Verizon DBIR is available for download. This year's report features nine common incident patterns, bringing together insights from fifty global organizations and more than 63,000 confirmed security incidents. https://www.verizonenterprise.com/DBIR/2014/ "...we’ve created sections around common incident patterns derived directly from the data itself... Within [...]
Video report on business espionage
Below is a ten minute video report on business espionage from France24.com. The information is certainly relevant to anyone in business today. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1twb9o_05-10-2014-beyond-business-05-10-2014-beyond-business_news Electronic trackers, scramblers and wiretapped computer keyboards. Those are some of the tools used in modern-day corporate espionage. It sounds like a James [...]
International Industrial Espionage: Zimbabwe- Savanna Tobacco says espionage is hurting exports.
from The Herald Savanna Tobacco says industrial espionage by its tobacco industry arch rivals is suffocating its potential and capacity to increase exports by a factor of at least 50 percent.Executive chairman Mr Adam Molai said in an interview last week that customers were being haunted and [...]
International: Georgian TV CEO office bugged, video and audio recordings leaked.
Probe Launched into Rustavi 2 TV Bugging ClaimsCivil Georgia, Tbilisi / 6 May.'14 / 14:58Prosecutor’s office said it has launched investigation into claims by Tbilisi-based Rustavi 2 TV channel that offices of its top executives were bugged. Head of Rustavi 2 TV Nika Gvaramia claims he is [...]