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British phone-hacking trial for ex-Rupert Murdoch employees starts
Former News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks is one of eight defendants on trial. Jury selection got under way at London’s Central Criminal Court on Monday in the first trial of the phone-hacking scandal that brought down Rupert Murdoch’s 168-year-old News of the World newspaper and [...]
Valley Police Beat: Sailor at NAFEC being investigated after hidden camera found
Hidden cameras are considered a no-no, even though nothing overly suspicious was reported. Imperial Valley, CA, IVpressonline.comThursday, October 24, 2013 SEELEY — Authorities at the Naval Air Facility-El Centro are investigating a sailor after a hidden video camera was found in a sailor’s barracks room, [...]
Tussle Over High-Tech Corporate Espionage
By KEVIN KOENINGER, Tues. Oct 22, 2013Courthouse News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CN) - A satellite TV software developer claims in court that a competitor used high-tech skullduggery to steal its products and customers and commit "digital crime." Pixsys Technologies sued Agemni LLC in Federal Court, claiming [...]
Trade Secret requirement: reasonable measures must be taken to protect the secrecy of information
After an eavesdropping incident or any kind of information theft has taken place, it's not enough just to claim then that proprietary information or trade secrets were lost.You must be able to establish in court not only that the information was considered a secret but [...]
New project for Elon Musk: making James Bond submarine car work.
The Drum.com 19 OCTOBER 2013 Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk revealed as mystery buyer of James Bond submarine car - and now he plans to make it work Elon Musk, the billionaire tech inventor who co-founded Paypal, has admitted that he was the mystery telephone bidder [...]
Confronting the Insider Threat
This article from this month's Security Management magazine (ASIS publication) provides a lot of insight into understanding how people inside your organization could be motivated to betray you. The writer delves into areas such as personality traits, background checks, risk assessment and dealing with terminations. [...]
North Korea’s Overseas Restaurants Used for Espionage and Gaining Hard Currency
Travelling on business? Be careful not only of what you eat, but better be wary where you eat as well. "Another mission of the restaurants is to spy on ...travelers who frequent the restaurants. Defectors say waitresses at the eateries are trained in intelligence gathering [...]
Hidden cameras keep on rolling
Discovery of hidden cameras continue to make the news. Here are a few of the latest. While the news media reports on the more sleazy discoveries, they are also popular devices for corporate spies. Most covert video cameras will also record audio making them even [...]
Bugging in history: Ten years ago, a bugging at the mayor’s office shook Philadelphia
This article looks into the bugging of the office of Philadelphia Mayor John Street, discovered on October 7, 2003, after Street had his own sweep team inspect his office. On the eve of the 2003 mayoral election, an FBI bug was discovered in Mayor John F. [...]
Corporate espionage- not new. Lack of awareness- also not new.
Having been working in the security field for over thirty five years, and in the surveillance countermeasures field for more than half of that, I've come to accept the need for protecting information as a given. I'm always surprised when people I would have expected [...]