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Nanny cam catches guilty musician…
Neighbors had been complaining about noise, so the owner set up a nanny cam and their pup was caught in the act. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hgz8aH9zJQ
Pacific Beach home searched for cameras after renters found webcam
[www.cbs8.com] By Matt Johnson, Reporter PACIFIC BEACH (CBS 8) - A vacation home in Pacific Beach was searched for at least one hidden camera that recorded nude images of renters, according to a search warrant. Police officers searched the house on the 4800 block of San [...]
Spy: The Secret World of Espionage – exhibit opens at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley
The exhibition is on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. It was put together through a collaboration between the CIA, FBI, the National Reconnaissance Office and the Foreign Excellent Trenchcoat Society, a Florida-based non-profit operated by author and collector Keith Melton. www.reaganfoundation.org [...]
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 [...]