Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Cruise Ship Employee Hid Cameras in Bathrooms to Spy
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Louisiana Deputy Fired - Allegedly Spying On Former Girlfriend
Saturday, November 25, 2023
Corporate Espionage: Nvidia Senior Employee Accidentally Reveals Confidential Files
North Korea Spy Rocket Explodes
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Utah Lawyer Charged with Voyeurism...
There were also recordings of women employed by Judd using the bathroom. When the recordings were recovered, employees examined the vent in the video but found the camera had been removed, according to documents...
The same employee said that one duty she performed at work was to order items for Judd on an Amazon account they both had access to. “The account history showed that several small spy cameras had been ordered beginning February 2021, and continuing through that year,” documents state. more
Thursday, June 8, 2023
Notable US Spies Fast Facts
Timeline Summaries* of Spies Who FailedAldrich Ames
1962 - Aldrich Ames, son of a CIA analyst, joins the agency as a low-level documents analyst.
1970-1991 - David Boone serves in the US Army as a signals intelligence analyst. During the late 1980s, he is assigned to the National Security Agency as a senior cryptologic traffic analyst.
1996 - Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins makes visits to Russia to meet with their intelligence agents. He is given a code name and signs a settlement “attesting that he wanted to serve” them.
Noshir Gowadia
1968-1986 - Noshir Gowadia is employed by Northrop Grumman where he works on technology relating to the B-2 Spirit Bomber, aka the “Stealth” bomber.
Robert Hanssen
January 12, 1976 - Robert Hanssen joins the FBI.
Ana Montes
1984 - Ana Montes is recruited to spy for Cuba. She is never paid for her spying.
Walter Kendall Myers
1977 - Walter Kendall Myers begins working for the US State Department on contract, as an instructor.
Harold James Nicholson
1980 - Harold Nicholson joins the CIA after serving in the United States Army.
Ronald Pelton
1965-1979 - Ronald Pelton works for the National Security Agency, with top-level security clearance.
Earl Pitts
1983-1996 - Earl Edwin Pitts works at the FBI.
1979 - Pollard is hired to work at the Navy Field Operational Intelligence Office. He had been rejected previously from employment at the CIA due to drug use. His specialty is North America and the Caribbean.
George Trofimoff
1969-1994 - George Trofimoff, a naturalized American citizen of Russian parentage, works as a civilian for the US Army at the Joint Interrogation Center in Nuremberg, Germany. He also attains the rank of colonel in the Army reserve. *Complete timelines for each spy.
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Why More Businesses Are Not Conducting Periodic TSCM Inspections
Alarmingly, more than 42% of the total IT/security professionals surveyed said they have been told to keep a breach confidential when they knew it should be reported and 30% said they have kept a breach confidential.
43% of IT/security professionals surveyed said extending capabilities across multiple environments (on-premises, cloud, and hybrid) is the greatest challenge they face which tied with complexity of security solutions also at 43%.
Not having the security skill set to drive full value came in as a strong second at 36%. more
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Spy Coffee and You're In
On Monday, the Tarpon Springs Police Department said a customer was using the men’s restroom at the “We Spy Coffee & More” shop, located at 505 Dodecanese Blvd., when they noticed they were being recorded by a camera placed underneath the sink.
“it was an iPhone that was propped underneath the sink and it was upside down. He picked the phone up and he looked at it and he saw that it was actually actively making a video recording,” said Detective John Melton.
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
When Wiretaps Work - The Tate Brag Tapes
The former kickboxer has risen to prominence over the last year due to his outlandish takes about men living in a modern society. The 36-year-old has often gone viral for his comments, which have been labeled as misogynistic and led to a mass-ban of his social media accounts last year.
Towards the end of last year, Romanian police arrested Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan on a number of charges, including sex trafficking, rape and conspiracy to form a criminal group.
According to Digi24, the Romanian police successfully wiretapped the brothers, during which they admitted to a number of crimes. more
Monday, October 31, 2022
Poor Spycraft: Suspected Spy Had a One-Way Ticket Out of Norway
Thursday, September 8, 2022
The Flower Pot Bug Wins a Darwin Award
Robert Orr turned himself in... Orr was president of Las Brisas Condo Association within the Matanzas Shores community.
FCSO was notified on August 30 by a woman who had a weekend stay at a condo, Staly said. As she was packing up to leave, she discovered a plugged-in USB camera hidden inside of an indoor flower pot located in the master bedroom she was sleeping in.
FCSO's Major Case Unit examined the camera and found that it contained video of two people in various stages of undress inside the condo, including the female who filed the report and a male who was also staying in the condo that weekend, according to Staly. It also contained videos of Orr testing the camera inside his own condo before it was placed in the flower pot (Darwin Award). more
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Chinese CCTV Cameras on British Streets Contain Hidden Microphones
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Air Force Officer Spycam'ed Kids in Family Member’s Bathroom
An Air Force officer is going to prison after federal prosecutors say he used a hidden spy camera to record children using the bathroom and bathing at his family member’s home, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland...
In October 2020, the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office in New York was notified by an adult woman, who has not been named, that Ort put a round, “black spy camera in (her) bedroom while visiting (her) home,” the news release said. Ort visited this adult’s home in Syracuse to visit her family, according to the plea agreement.
This woman found the hidden camera with an SD card, and after reviewing the card, she “discovered a video of a minor female using the bathroom... Then, Ort was seen “entering the bathroom and adjusting the camera.” more
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Man Accused of Hiding Cameras at Gym... again
A Shelby Township man accused two years ago of hiding cameras to spy on people at a tanning salon is at it again, Wayne County prosecutors allege.
Brian Michael Maciborski, 40, allegedly placed a camera in the ceiling grate of a gym's tanning bed area to record a 24-year-old Westland woman on Feb. 23, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office. more
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Burglar Steals $20K From Business Specializing in Security Cameras
Pro Systems is a communications company in South Nashville that has been around since the eighties and specializes in security cameras. But when employees arrived at work just weeks ago, they found their fence cut, and about $20,000 worth of items stolen.
The company, of course, reviewed their own equipment and handed over surveillance footage to the Metro Nashville Police. Within hours, officers were able to identify and arrest the suspect seen on the business’ security cameras. more in other surveillance camera theft news
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Nanny Cam Catches Home Inspector with Elmo Doll
Kevin Wayne VanLuven, 59, was arraigned on charges of aggravated indecent exposure and malicious destruction of property under $200. Bond was set at $2,500 cash or surety.
The charges
stem from a March 12 incident in Oxford Township, when homeowners asked
to have their property inspected at request of the buyers. A nursery
camera detected movement, the news release said, so the 22-year-old
homeowner checked her phone and caught VanLuven in the act. After he
finished ... he returned the doll to its original place,
the release said. more
Monday, February 22, 2021
Hot Microphone Strikes Again – School Board Resigns
The president and three members of a school board in Northern California have resigned after they were heard making disparaging comments about parents in the school district during a virtual board meeting last Wednesday.
Members of the Oakley Union Elementary School District (OUESD) Board of Trustees apparently believed they were speaking privately in the moments before the meeting started, CNN affiliate KPIX reported, when in fact, community members had already logged on to watch.
In a recording of the meeting posted anonymously to YouTube, the superintendent and board members are heard discussing the agenda for the meeting before then-board member Kim Beede says, "Are we alone?" more sing-a-long
Monday, February 1, 2021
And The Darwin Award for Spying Goes To...
The alleged peeper, identified as 41-year-old Brian Anthony Joe of Woodbridge, was charged after falling through a ceiling in the women's locker room at the gym and landing on a woman below. He was then cornered by patrons at the gym until law enforcement arrived. more
Friday, January 8, 2021
Landlord Used Hidden Cameras to Spy on at Least 13 Tenants
Larry S. Phillips, 69, of Salt Lake City — is already a registered sex offender from a previous conviction...
Police believe Phillips has secretly recorded at least 13 people over the past several years at his house and at other properties...
The investigation began when two men renting rooms in Phillips’ home...each found hidden cameras in their bedrooms that were designed to look like iPhone charger blocks... A SWAT team served a search warrant on Phillips’ house and seized multiple electronic devices.
“A search of the devices located 320 videos of the bathrooms, bedrooms and private bedrooms being rented by the victims...Investigators say some of the videos also recorded Phillips setting up the hidden cameras (Darwin Award) and adjusting the camera angles. more
Monday, October 5, 2020
Dumb Cyber Attack – Hacker Receives Our Darwin Award
The luxury goods business had installed ten fingerprint scanners so as to restrict access to warehouses in an effort to reduce risk. "Unbeknown to them," Heinemeyer continues, "an attacker began exploiting vulnerabilities in one of the scanners. In perhaps the weirdest hacker move yet, they started deleting authorized fingerprints and uploading their own in the hope of gaining physical access."
The AI brain picked this up because one scanner was behaving
differently than the others, meaning the security team became aware of
the attack within minutes. And, of course, had some pretty conclusive
evidence to provide to law enforcement. more