A Bad Week for Spys

• Beijing accused of using spying, threats and blackmail against Tibetan exiles more

• Turkey says 4 suspects confess to spying on behalf of Mossad more

• Everything wrong with South Africa’s new spying law more

• The body of a former advisor to El Salvador's president showed signs of torture after he died this week while in custody on spying charges. more

• Ireland Refuses New Visa for Russian Diplomats Over Espionage Concerns more

• Accused Russian spy worked for U.K. intelligence, met with prime ministers and princes more

• US Worried About Chinese Smart Cars Spying On Americans more

• Russia jails Ukrainian woman for 10 years for spying more

• A woman who had a six-year relationship with the man of her dreams eventually discovered he was actually an undercover cop spying on her. more

• Lebanese resistance destroys spying equipment in Israeli garrison more

...and in spy movie news... 

• Argylle: A spy martini that's shaken, stirred and somehow still flat. more

• “Argylle” is still out snooping the competition. The spy action comedy remained in first place, raking in $1.96 million on Friday, its second in theaters... So far, the flick, which cost $200 million to make, hasn’t been performing as expected. more

Well, the trailer was fun.

So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets

Spying used to be all about secrets. Increasingly, it’s about what’s hiding in plain sight.

A staggering amount of data, from Facebook posts and YouTube clips to location pings from mobile phones and car apps, sits in the open internet, available to anyone who looks. US intelligence agencies have struggled for years to tap into such data, which they refer to as open-source intelligence, or OSINT. But that’s starting to change.

In October the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees all the nation’s intelligence agencies, brought in longtime analyst and cyber expert Jason Barrett to help with the US intelligence community’s approach to OSINT. His immediate task will be to help develop the intelligence community’s national OSINT strategy, which will focus on coordination, data acquisition and the development of tools to improve its approach to this type of intelligence work. ODNI expects to implement the plan in the coming months, according to a spokesperson. more

Recent Spy News

• A Russian man working for a state firm was arrested for allegedly planning to pass sensitive information to Poland in exchange for help in fleeing the country, the security services said Friday. Russian security services have detained a slew of foreigners and its own nationals for working with foreign intelligence since it launched the conflict in Ukraine in February 2022. more

• Algeria caught up in spying drama on the eve of Africa Cup of Nations as police quiz man who flew a DRONE over their training session more

• The sentencing of a US Navy sailor is a window into Chinese espionage. more

• In a decision reflecting rising espionage concerns and a penchant for time-tested technologies, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has chosen to keep alive the chancellery’s vintage pneumatic tube system. 

This unconventional yet highly functional method of document distribution, planned for phase-out by 2025, has been given a new lease of life. more  However: Researchers have found almost a dozen vulnerabilities in a popular brand of pneumatic tube delivery system more  Fun video clip.

• Belarusian Spy-Nude Model Detained in Poland - Polish state security services arrested a Belarusian OnlyFans model for allegedly engaging in espionage – something that she had admitted to friends while drunk. more

• 20 Best Spy Comedies – From 'Austin Powers' to 'Spies Like Us,' Moviefone counts down the 20 best spy comedies of all time. more

Recent Spy News

• Iran is saying it has executed an Israeli Mossad spy in the country’s southeast, state TV reported Saturday. The report said the spy was linked to foreign intelligence services, including Mossad, and charged with involvement in releasing classified information. The judiciary body executed the person in a prison in Zahedan, the capital of the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan. The report did not identify the person. more

• Amazon is still selling the clothes hook spy cameras it's being sued over. more  antidote

• German Spy Official Goes on Trial Accused of Selling Secrets to Russia. more

• A top-secret Chinese spy satellite just launched on a supersized rocket. more

• UK spy agency releases annual Christmas puzzle challenge for students: Can you solve it? more

• Man Accused Of Being Spy Admits He’s Russian After Years Posing As Academic In Norway, Canada more

• He’s Wanted for Wirecard’s Missing $2 Billion. He’s Now Suspected of Being a Russian Spy. more

• Ukraine weapons treason case throws light on Russian spy threat to Germany. more

• Former FBI spy hunter sentenced to 4 years for taking money from Putin crony in Russia sanctions case. more

• Congress Clashes Over the Future of America’s Global Spy Program more

• Accused Spy for Cuba Lived the American Dream more

Recent Spy News

Two Palestinians were murdered in the city of Tulkarm and another was murdered in Jenin in the West Bank on Friday under suspicion of spying for Israel... A Palestinian mob can be seen in the videos abusing the bodies and hanging them on an electric pole as crowds surrounded the area, screaming "You traitors!" N12 reported. more

Ukrainian Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Spying for Russia... was found guilty of providing information to the Russian military and sentenced to 12 years in prison, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) said in a Telegram post. An investigation found the man had sent voice messages to Russian forces in the area with information about the location of Ukrainian military units, equipment, weapons storehouses, military bases and headquarters. more

India... right before he was arrested by Gujarat’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for allegedly spying for Pakistan, Tarapur-based shopkeeper Labhshankar Maheshwari was in conversation with his neighbours. He was telling them that he would be getting his phone back that day, after a nearly three-month investigation, when an ATS vehicle pulled up... Maheshwari was then arrested for “waging war against the Indian state”. more

India... Two former army officers were convicted and sentenced for jail terms over their collaboration with RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) and other anti-Pakistan actions, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Saturday. According to details, the sentencing came under the Official Secrets Act 1923 and the Army Act 1952 on charges of sedition, working against the interests of national institutions and spying for a foreign agency, as Adil Farooq Raja – who served as major – and Haider Raza Mehdi – a former captain – faced court martial. more

A U.S. court held an extraordinary hearing on November 16th, where a judge carefully considered a lawsuit against the CIA and former CIA director Mike Pompeo for their alleged role in spying on American attorneys and journalists who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. more

South Korea says Russian support likely enabled North Korea to successfully launch a spy satellite. more

Poland said Wednesday it had charged 16 foreign individuals with spying for Russia, for allegedly preparing acts of sabotage and gathering information on military equipment deliveries to Ukraine. more

Two suspects have been detained in Istanbul on suspicion of “military and political espionage” for Israeli intelligence. The suspects contacted Palestinian software engineer Omar A. on the pretext of doing business in Turkiye, it was reported on Thursday. more

A man detained in Latvia on suspicion of spying for Russia has died in detention after developing sudden health problems, prison authorities said. more

WIMBLEDON finalist David Nalbandian is being sued by his model ex-girlfriend for sexual harassment and stalking after allegedly installing hidden cameras in the air conditioning. Araceli Torrado, 29, made the complaint against her former partner Nalbandian, 41, accompanying it with a video in which she discovers a camera allegedly set up by the Argentinian... The installation of the camera - which a judge ruled was placed there by Nalbandian - is not a crime as the apartment was shared by the couple. more

World Spy News Roundup

PA - A Pittsburgh police commander previously placed on leave while officials investigated allegations he spied on colleagues has retired. Matthew Lackner, who had previously overseen the police bureau’s Zone 2 station in the Hill District, retired Tuesday, according to spokeswoman Cara Cruz. Mr. Lackner was placed on paid administrative leave earlier this month. A police source familiar with the incident said the commander was accused of putting a body-worn camera in an officer’s patrol vehicle to spy on the officer. more

Australia - Robot vacuums don’t just collect dust — they can also collect data of their surroundings, sending it back to external servers, experts at The Australian Information Security Association (AISA) warned on Tuesday. more

China - China restricts foreign travel by bankers, state workers to curb spying... According to two analysts who spoke to the media, the moves reflect President Xi Jinping’s attention to national security in the midst of tense relations with the West. more

CA - The Five Eyes countries' intelligence chiefs came together on Tuesday to accuse China of intellectual property theft and using artificial intelligence for hacking and spying against the nations, in a rare joint statement by the allies. more

TX - It seems everything truly is bigger here in Texas, including the drama of partner snooping and infidelity! Recent data has exposed Texas as one of the leading states where the lines between privacy and suspicion are blurrier than ever. Relationship and sex expert Beth Darling joins the factor to talk about the data. more

USA - Ethical hacker helps prevent a potential espionage disaster for CIA. A glitch on X, formerly known as Twitter, could have opened a can of worms for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had an ethical hacker on the microblogging website not sprung to action. more

Donald Trump is suing a private investigations firm over "shocking and scandalous" claims that he engaged in "perverted sexual acts" in Russia. The former US president is taking legal action against Orbis Business Intelligence, a London-based company co-founded by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, over a dossier containing rumours about him that caused a storm before his 2017 presidential inauguration. more

Survey - 53% of employees in the Middle East, Turkiye, and Africa region fear spying from drones... Corporate spies and hackers use drones to get trade secrets, confidential information, and other sensitive data from corporations and data centers. A drone can carry a device for hacking into corporate networks – for instance, a smartphone, a compact computer (e.g., Raspberry Pi), or a signal interceptor (e.g., Wi-Fi Pineapple [1]), and hackers use these devices to access corporate data and disrupt communications. All wireless communication (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RFID, etc.) is vulnerable to drone attacks. more

Finland - Dead man's estate and firm fined €5m in shipyard espionage case. A man who worked for the Meyer Turku shipyard copied files from the shipyard and a shipping company onto a hard drive and transferred them to his own consulting firm – but then died while the investigation was underway. more

VA - It could be years before Appian, a software company, sees a dollar of the $2 billion judgment it was awarded last year in a corporate espionage case against rival Pegasystems. more

IN - Parents Attack Little League Umpire after children say he was taking photos of them in bathroom. A Little League umpire is facing charges for allegedly taking photos of children in the bathroom... Deputies in Warrick County said they were called to an area baseball field because of reports that parents were fighting an umpire. Authorities said the parents told them the brawl started because their children came running out of the bathroom screaming that Custer had taken photos of them. more

World Spy News Roundup

Canada Finds Smoking Gun In Nijjar Killing After Spying On India more

5 Bulgarians charged with espionage | Spying for Russia more

EU tells China spy and sanction laws could spook investors more more

10 Underrated Movies Based on Actual Real-Life Spies more

Spies in America who stole and sold U.S. secrets | 60 Minutes YouTube

Hamas Operative Arrested on Suspicion of Spying for Israel, Lebanese Media Report more

An award-winning London beautician accused of spying for Russia told her customers she had no interest in politics. more more

Ethiopian Contractor Charged For Spying In US more U.S. government contractor was charged with delivering national defense information to aid a foreign government. more

Exclusive Interview With Ukraine’s Spy Boss From His D.C. Hotel Room more

The Spy Inside Your Smartphone more

Norway drops spying claims against foreign student, says he's being held now for a 'financial crime' more

World Spy News Roundup

UK - Sunak tackles Chinese premier in person over ‘spy in Parliament’ arrest. At the G20 meeting in India, the PM warned Li Qiang over ‘unacceptable’ meddling in the UK’s democracy. more

Israel - Mossad Reveals New Details About Key Egyptian Spy Who Warned Israel That Yom Kippur War Was Imminent more

Germany - Germany charges intelligence 'mole' with treason in Russia spying case. more

UK - Police probe whether fugitive 'Iranian spy' Daniel Khalife had help from the inside as manhunt for ex-soldier, 21, who 'may have burns on his face' moves to Richmond Park near where his family lived. more

UK - A Chinese spy is alleged to have used LinkedIn to contact thousands of British officials and lure them into handing over state secrets. The Times said that the spy worked for Beijing's Ministry of State Security and used a series of false names. The MI5 has previously warned that spies are using LinkedIn to target those with access to confidential information. more

Sri Lanka - Easter bombings: President orders probe after allegations of spy chief’s complicity
The documentary aired this week featured a political insider who accused Sallay of complicity in the bombings by Islamist extremists at three churches and three hotels, which killed 279 people including 45 foreigners. more

China - China’s new counterespionage law, which has been on the books for just a few months, is moving forward at a pace as Beijing weaponizes its citizens to report on suspected cases of foreign agents and Western spy networks – even offering big cash rewards for successful tips. more

North Korea - Calls failed spy satellite launch ‘the most serious’ shortcoming, vows 2nd launch. more

North Korea - Says its 2nd attempt to launch a spy satellite has failed, vows 3rd try. more

China - Accuses government worker of spying for the CIA in second public espionage claim. more

Canada - Organized cybercrime is set to pose a threat to Canada's national security and economic prosperity over the next two years, a national intelligence agency said on Monday. more

USA - Two California Sailors Arrested on Espionage Charges - One of the sailors is assigned to amphibious warship USS Essex (LHD-2) ship, while the other serves at a construction battalion near Los Angeles, according to the sailors’ bios obtained by USNI News. Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Jinchao Wei, of Wisconsin, has been assigned to Essex since March 4, 2022 and joined the Navy on July 28, 2021, according to the bio. Wei was indicted on a charge for conspiracy to provide national defense information to a Chinese intelligence officer, according to a news release from the Department of Justice. more

This Week in Spy News Around the World

• 5 suspects detained over alleged espionage for China more
• Ex-Venezuelan spy chief is extradited from Spain to US on drug trafficking charges more
• Nikhil Siddhartha's Spy Movie OTT Release Date/Time on Amazon Prime Video more
• Lookout Discovers Advanced Android Surveillanceware Attributed to China more
• Espionage case: NIA files charge sheet against two including Firozabad youth more

• Russian spy network planned to blow up trains in Poland more

• Chinese man arrested while trying to enter India, cops suspect he's a spy more
And proving once again there is no cure for stupid...
• Alleged classified docs leaker Jack Teixeira argues he should be treated like Trump more

South Korean Spy Luck, or Pearls of Wisdom

For weeks, counterintelligence officials at South Korea's spy agency struggled to crack a tiny adversary — a locked USB stick that they believed was the key to proving that a South Korean labor activist followed orders from the North to foment unrest in the South...

The solution to this dilemma was randomly discovered by a NIS agent, who stumbled upon a string of gibberish written in the Latin alphabet that read, “rntmfdltjakfdlfkehRnpdjdiqhqoek,” in another data storage device owned by Seok. 

When the NIS agent typed out Korean letters in the same locations on a computer keyboard as these Latin letters in the same order, they spelled out, “Even three sacks of pearls only turn into treasure if you weave them together.”

The Korean proverb proved key to uncovering the cipher officials needed to crack the USB and the word document inside it. more

A Bad Week for Spies

Armenia - A serviceman of the Defense Army of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, the National Security Service (NSS) of Artsakh said Friday. The suspect has been charged with treason and taken into custody after a court approved pre-trial remand. more

Taiwan - Punishments for spying too lenient: lawyers

Two former military officers indicted on Chinese espionage offenses received sentences that were lighter than a drunk driving charge despite having betrayed the nation, lawyers and a government spokesman said yesterday. Attorney Huang Di-ying (黃帝穎), chairman of the Taiwan Forever Association, said the pair were found guilty of espionage, but do not need to serve time in prison. “In effect, the judges are encouraging people to spy for China by handing out such lenient terms,” Huang said. more

Meanwhile...

Iran - Dual British-Iranian Ex-Official Sentenced To Death Over Spying For UK’s MI6

The Iranian judiciary sentenced a dual British-Iranian citizen and former official Alireza Akbari to death on charges of spying for the British intelligence agency. more

USA - Spy agencies report hundreds more UFO sightings since 2021

National security agencies are studying hundreds of new reports of UFOs, including many that appear to perform maneuvers that are highly advanced, the nation’s top intelligence official reported on Thursday. In total, 510 “unidentified aerial phenomena” observed in protected airspace or near sensitive facilities have been compiled as of August of last year, according to the report to Congress from the director of national intelligence. more

USA - US spies lag rivals in seizing on data hiding in plain sight

As alarms began to go off globally about a novel coronavirus spreading in China, officials in Washington turned to the intelligence agencies for insights about the threat the virus posed to America. But the most useful early warnings came not from spies or intercepts, according to a recent congressional review of classified reports from December 2019 and January 2020. Officials were instead relying on public reporting, diplomatic cables and analysis from medical experts — some examples of so-called open source intelligence, or OSINT. more

USA - Campaign to Renew US Spy Powers Faces Bitter Battle in Congress

The US intelligence community faces a hard battle to renew foreign surveillance powers that have enabled authorities to repeatedly access private information about Americans despite constitutional protections. The Biden administration wants to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a warrantless wiretapping program introduced in 2008, which was last renewed in 2018 and is due to expire at the end of the year. “Without Section 702, we will lose critical insights into the most significant threats to our nation,” said General Paul Nakasone, director of the National Security Agency, in a speech launching the Biden ... more

USA - Silicon Valley firm sues spy agency over software contract
Nearly seven years after Palantir forced the Army to consider buying its software instead of developing a bespoke system, a Silicon Valley firm is again taking the Defense Department to court over allegedly ignoring commercial products. Santa Clara, California-based Percipient.AI filed suit in the Court of Federal Claims on Monday, claiming the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is violating a law requiring agencies to buy commercially available products when possible. more

Iran - Belgian aid worker sentenced to 40 years in prison, 74 lashes
A court in Tehran has sentenced a Belgian aid worker to four decades in prison and 74 lashes after convicting him on espionage and smuggling charges. According to Iran's Tasnim News Agency, Olivier Vandercasteele was found guilty on four charges: "spying activities, collusion with the United States, currency smuggling and money laundring." more

Mexico - Seventh former Mexico City government official arrested for espionage
The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office has captured a seventh person accused of being a spy in the Sterling Case. On Wednesday, authorities in Mexico City arrested Jorge “N” from city streets. He is the seventh former official of the Mexico City government to be charged in the espionage network. He was picked up Wednesday on an outstanding arrest warrant. Six others before him, all also former government officials, have already been arrested and charged. more

S. Korea - North Korean spy ring uncovered
The counter-espionage authorities are said to be investigating an officer of a progressive party and two others on Jeju Island in relation to suspicions they have been spying for North Korea. It is the Yoon Suk Yeol administration’s first known investigation of a spy ring acting for Pyongyang. more

Australia - Chinese Spy who exposed CCP regime on television denied asylum in Australia
A Chinese spy Wang Liqiang aged 32 who came on Australian media’s Nine now television’ show 60 minutes in 2019 confessed to being a spy of Beijing, has now been denied asylum in Australia. This exposes him to being deported back to China. more

Germany - Berlin: Eternal espionage hotspot
Nowhere else did the secret services of East and West clash as closely as in this city on the frontlines of the Cold War. Arts Un-veiled delves into the shadows of Berlin and uncovers incredible stories from ex-agents. video

Timothy Webster, Pinkerton Spy for the Union Army

In Chicago’s Graceland Cemetery, there is a headstone bearing the name, “Timothy Webster,” but the grave is empty. 

Webster is actually buried beneath a simple white marble stone in the township cemetery at Onarga, an Iroquois County village some 90 miles south of Chicago. 

The headstone in the Chicago cemetery is actually a memorial, part of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency’s burial plot for its deceased agents.

Timothy Webster died at the age of 40 in Richmond, Virginia, where he was hanged as a Union spy on April 29, 1862, by the Confederate government. He was the first spy executed by the Confederates during the Civil War. more

This Week in Spy News

Swedish brothers face trial on Russia spy charges
Two Swedish brothers accused of selling secrets to Russia's intelligence services have gone on trial in what has been called one of Sweden's worst ever alleged cases of espionage. more

Alleged Chinese spy detained in Quebec seeks bail, wants to clear name
A former employee of Quebec's electricity utility who is charged with economic espionage for the benefit of China denied on Thursday that he was a flight risk and said he wanted to stay in Canada to fight the charges. more

US Senators Reportedly Worried About Foreign Espionage As Chinese Drones Fly Over No-Go Zones In DC
Recreational drones made by Da-Jiang Innovations, or DJI, a Chinese technology company, have been reportedly detected in restricted airspace over Washington, D.C. more

Pakistan appoints ex-spy master Gen. Munir as new army chief
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has named the country's former spy chief as head of the military, the information minister said Thursday, ending months of speculation about the new appointment. more

Fear of espionage: USA bans Huawei products from stores
The US government bans the sale and import of communication devices from Chinese smartphone manufacturers and network suppliers Huawei and ZTE. They posed an unacceptable risk to national security, the US telecommunications regulator FCC said on Friday. more

UK bans Chinese surveillance cameras from 'sensitive' sites
Hikvision, a leading Chinese surveillance company, has denied suggestions that it poses a threat to Britain's national security after the UK government banned the use of its camera systems at "sensitive" sites. more

Travelling Australian espionage exhibition reveals double life of post-WWII spies
The touring exhibition is at the Albury Library Museum, on the New South Wales and Victorian border, where it explores espionage and counter-espionage in Australia, from federation through to the present day. more

Bond-inspired watches pay homage to franchise’s 60 years

Swiss watchmaker Omega has released two 007-inspired timepieces.
Photos courtesy Omega

In honour of six decades of high-tech gadgets, espionage, and ‘shaken, not stirred’ martinis, Swiss watchmaker Omega has crafted two new James Bond-inspired timepieces. more

Poor Spycraft: Suspected Spy Had a One-Way Ticket Out of Norway

A man suspected of spying for Russia in Norway had bought a one-way ticket out of the Scandinavian country for the day after he was detained, his lawyer said Thursday.

“He was originally leaving. He had a one-way ticket for Oct. 25,” his lawyer Thomas Hansen told the VG newspaper. He added that his client explained that he had canceled the plane ticket. He did not know where his client intended to travel. more

This Week in Spy News

• German investigators probe riddle of the spy who fell from a window. more
  
  
• Apparent spy campaign targeting defense and other sectors uncovered. more
  
  
• Chinese convicted of spying on US aviation industry. more
  
  
• Beijing says U.S. spying charges against Chinese citizen 'pure fabrication' more
  
  
• (Football) Pat Narduzzi calls former Pitt player Carson Van Lynn ‘a spy’ more
  
  
• Britney Spears' Ex-Manager Denies Bugging Her Bedroom more
  
  
• Muslims Are Suing The FBI For Spying on OC Mosques more
  
  
• 77% of rootkits are used for espionage purposes. more
  
  
• FBI Observer Says China-linked Economic Espionage Cases Jumped By 1300% In Past 10 Years more
  
  
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  Parsons Corporation hiring Counterintelligence TSCM Officer/Technical Surveillance more
  
  
• Vickers & Nolan hiring Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) Specialist Level II more
  
  
• Utahn working with DEA tried to tip off suspect that phone was bugged, prosecutors say. more
  
  
• Former elementary school principal faces indictment for spycam voyeurism. more
  
  
• Spy cam in washroom of a private school in Karachi. more
  
  
• ‘My phone is eavesdropping on me’: How we are being spied on, but not in the way you imagin. more
  
  
•  Former MI6 Spy Shares Her Secret of Living to 110: Lots of Red Wine more
  

This Week in Spy News

Electronics shops in Hong Kong have seen a sharp increase in demand for cheap burner phones as the Chinese-ruled city’s government eases coronavirus restrictions but pushes the use of a Covid-19 contact-tracing app which has raised privacy concerns. more 

Congressman Murphy reintroduces legislation to crack down on foreign spying at universities... According to the Intellectual Property Commission, they estimate foreign groups steal $300 billion in American intellectual property annually, and the Commission says China is responsible for 70% of that theft or $210 billion annually. more

Critical Flaw in Agora SDK Lets Hackers Eavesdrop on Live Video Calls...
Agora works with MeetMe to integrate its live video streaming features with the popular dating app and online therapy platform Talkspace to facilitate online mental health therapy sessions. more

SolarWinds attack hit 100 companies and took months of planning, says White House...
Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology at the White House, said in a press briefing that nine government agencies were breached while many of the 100 private sector US organizations that were breached were technology companies. more

WARNING: Web Tracking Might Expose Businesses to Wiretapping Lawsuits...
Imagine this. A consumer goes to your website to buy your goods or services. Your website works great, thanks in part to a small bit of code your company licenses that allows you to track a consumer’s experience on your website, commonly called “session replay” software....A few weeks later you’re being served with a class action lawsuit alleging violations of the Federal Wiretap Act and/or analogous State statutes... more

Top 9 Surveillance Videos of the Week: Naked Man Breaks Into House With Baseball Bat...
Other top surveillance videos of the week include the “world’s worst Door Dash driver,” an armed dog theft and more. 

(Man identified as Guy Dixon. You can't make this up.)

'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic'...
Emails pixels can be used to log:
• if and when an email is opened
• how many times it is opened
• what device or devices are involved
• the user's rough physical location, deduced from their internet protocol (IP) address - in some cases making it possible to see the street the recipient is on. more

Former Union Spy & Freedom Crusader, Harriet Tubman Inducted Into Hall of Fame...
One hundred and fifty years after her work as a Union spy, Harriet Tubman is being inducted into the U.S. Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame, The Washington Post reports. more

James Bond Theory: 007's True Mission Is to Distract From OTHER Spies...
For those wondering how such a non-secretive spy became so prominent, a recent Reddit theory looks to provide an answer — and it's pretty convincing. James Bond isn't meant to be a successful agent; he is a distraction that allows other truly secret MI6 operatives to complete their missions. more

Electronic Eavesdropping Detection – The Other Corporate Covid Deep Clean...
Corporate espionage has never been easier. Workplaces—unpopulated for months— became easy targets for corporate spies and foreign government types. The pandemic created a golden opportunity to Deep Plant their electronic surveillance devices...The reality is, organizations just don’t know if employees will be returning to hot-wired offices. more