Corporate Espionage and Countermeasures News
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“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
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 [...]