NY - State Police have arrested a Town of Moreau man for breaking into a home and hiding a recording device in a bedroom.
State Police in Wilton arrested 39-year-old Todd D. Derush. Police say Derush unlawfully entered the home of the victim and hid a recording device in their bedroom. Derush's actions were in violation of a full stay away order of protection barring Derush from being on the property, according to State Police. more
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Spies in the Skys
SPY ONE
From 1957, when he first started working on the project, until 2011 when it was declassified, Dave McDowell was sworn to secrecy.
But now, the results of this once top-secret Kodak program is on full display at the Strasenburg Planetarium.
“Awe” is how McDowell described what he felt standing in front of the exhibit. “It’s something we designed and built in Rochester, and this one didn’t fly in space, but 48 others exactly like it did.”
The top-secret project was the optical system for Gambit-1, a national reconnaissance satellite. Kodak engineers designed and built what was essentially a large camera encased in a capsule. It was a revolutionary technology at that time, and it played a significant role in U.S. national security in the Cold War era. more
SPY TWO
On January 20, something rather strange happened in orbit. A Russian satellite suddenly maneuvered itself so that it was closely shadowing a US spy satellite.
The pair are now less than 186 miles (300 kilometers) apart—a short distance when it comes to space. While we don’t know for sure what’s going on, the Russian satellite’s actions strongly suggest it is there to spy on the US one—and there is very little the US can do about it. more
From 1957, when he first started working on the project, until 2011 when it was declassified, Dave McDowell was sworn to secrecy.
But now, the results of this once top-secret Kodak program is on full display at the Strasenburg Planetarium.
“Awe” is how McDowell described what he felt standing in front of the exhibit. “It’s something we designed and built in Rochester, and this one didn’t fly in space, but 48 others exactly like it did.”
The top-secret project was the optical system for Gambit-1, a national reconnaissance satellite. Kodak engineers designed and built what was essentially a large camera encased in a capsule. It was a revolutionary technology at that time, and it played a significant role in U.S. national security in the Cold War era. more
SPY TWO
On January 20, something rather strange happened in orbit. A Russian satellite suddenly maneuvered itself so that it was closely shadowing a US spy satellite.
The pair are now less than 186 miles (300 kilometers) apart—a short distance when it comes to space. While we don’t know for sure what’s going on, the Russian satellite’s actions strongly suggest it is there to spy on the US one—and there is very little the US can do about it. more
Monday, February 3, 2020
How to Turn a Tesla Into a Surveillance Station
Truman Kain, senior information security analyst at Tevora, has developed a new device called the Surveillance Detection Scout. As Wired describes it, the DIY computer plugs into the dashboard USB port of a Tesla Model S, 3 or X and uses the car’s built-in cameras to read license plates and faces to alert the driver if someone is following them.
“It turns your Tesla into an AI-powered surveillance station,” Kain told the magazine. “It’s meant to be another set of eyes, to help out and tell you it’s seen a license plate following you over multiple days, or even multiple turns of a single trip.” more
“It turns your Tesla into an AI-powered surveillance station,” Kain told the magazine. “It’s meant to be another set of eyes, to help out and tell you it’s seen a license plate following you over multiple days, or even multiple turns of a single trip.” more
Sunday, February 2, 2020
Encryption Using Palindrome Number (Never odd or even.)
Posted in honor of this special day*
This paper provides a technique for message security in which palindrome number is used for encryption message. Colour is important in authentication process as it acts as a password. Using this technique message can be protected from on-line cyber crime and accessible to an authorized individual when required. more
Who cares? The important thing is this historical date...
02/02/2020
*Palindrome Day... for the first time in 909 years! Wow, yet another palindrome!
Here in the U.S., it is also a trifecta: Palindrome Day, Groundhog Day and Superbowl Sunday.
This paper provides a technique for message security in which palindrome number is used for encryption message. Colour is important in authentication process as it acts as a password. Using this technique message can be protected from on-line cyber crime and accessible to an authorized individual when required. more
Who cares? The important thing is this historical date... 02/02/2020
*Palindrome Day... for the first time in 909 years! Wow, yet another palindrome!
Here in the U.S., it is also a trifecta: Palindrome Day, Groundhog Day and Superbowl Sunday.
Saturday, February 1, 2020
FutureWatch: You've Probably Been Photo-Napped by an App
Clearview AI, devised a groundbreaking facial recognition app. You take a picture of a person, upload it and get to see public photos of that person, along with links to where those photos appeared.
The system — whose backbone is a database of more than three billion images that Clearview claims to have scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites — goes far beyond anything ever constructed by the United States government or Silicon Valley giants...
The computer code underlying its app, analyzed by The New York Times, includes programming language to pair it with augmented-reality glasses; users would potentially be able to identify every person they saw...
Searching someone by face could become as easy as Googling a name. Strangers would be able to listen in on sensitive conversations, take photos of the participants and know personal secrets. Someone walking down the street would be immediately identifiable — and his or her home address would be only a few clicks away. It would herald the end of public anonymity. more
The computer code underlying its app, analyzed by The New York Times, includes programming language to pair it with augmented-reality glasses; users would potentially be able to identify every person they saw...
Searching someone by face could become as easy as Googling a name. Strangers would be able to listen in on sensitive conversations, take photos of the participants and know personal secrets. Someone walking down the street would be immediately identifiable — and his or her home address would be only a few clicks away. It would herald the end of public anonymity. more
Quote of the Month
“Absent a very strong federal privacy law, we’re all screwed.”
—Al Gidari, a privacy professor at Stanford Law School.
(via The New York Times article above)
—Al Gidari, a privacy professor at Stanford Law School.
(via The New York Times article above)
Friday, January 31, 2020
Five Mile GPS Tracker Doesn't Require Cellular Service
GoFindMe is a real-time GPS tracker that works
without cell service. By built-in GPS & long-range radio technology,
it allows you to stay in touch with people even if your phone fails by
rich handy features such as:
-Real time location tracking
-Send & receive texts, built-in voice and GPS coordinates
-One-button emergency SOS
-Automatic trace record
-Sync up group activity
-Set customized safe zone
-Pin meeting place or home base
-Mesh network to extend connectivity range
more
But what if you can't find it when you need it?
-Real time location tracking
-Send & receive texts, built-in voice and GPS coordinates
-One-button emergency SOS
-Automatic trace record
-Sync up group activity
-Set customized safe zone
-Pin meeting place or home base
-Mesh network to extend connectivity range
more
But what if you can't find it when you need it?
Thursday, January 30, 2020
NIST - Detecting and Responding to Ransomware and Other Destructive Events
In response to growing ransomware attacks on businesses and governments small and large, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released draft guidelines to help organizations prepare for “data integrity cybersecurity events” that threaten their operations...The free guide, which will be available for public comment through Feb. 26, focused specifically on potential tool sets for mitigating and containing cybersecurity attacks as well as what strategies security teams could adopt to respond...
Security teams and organization leaders can read the full report and provide public comment through NIST’s website. more
Facebook Tracks You - You can stop the spying, sort of.
If you’ve ever thought Facebook is listening or watching you when you’re not on the social media site, you are right. ... The Washington Post says Facebook-owned apps like Instagram and Messenger are tracking you, too.
But now developers at the social media giant have rolled out a tool that may stop most of it, or at least tell you how Facebook is spying on users’ daily lives. It’s called off-Facebook activity...
Click the small triangle at the top right of Facebook and go to settings. Then click “Your Facebook Information” on the left column, then select Off-Facebook Activity to manage the information the company gleans from your life. Here you can either manage it or clear the entire history from your account.
But the company also has a caveat. You may clear your current history, but new activity will be shared back to Facebook in the future. more
But now developers at the social media giant have rolled out a tool that may stop most of it, or at least tell you how Facebook is spying on users’ daily lives. It’s called off-Facebook activity...
Click the small triangle at the top right of Facebook and go to settings. Then click “Your Facebook Information” on the left column, then select Off-Facebook Activity to manage the information the company gleans from your life. Here you can either manage it or clear the entire history from your account.
But the company also has a caveat. You may clear your current history, but new activity will be shared back to Facebook in the future. more
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| Geez... just like barnacles. |
FBI: Harvard Doc Can't Have Rice Cake and Eat it Too
Federal law enforcement officials arrested a top Harvard scientist on Tuesday for allegedly lying to the U.S. government about his involvement in a massive Chinese program that authorities say is responsible for stealing proprietary information from U.S. institutions.
Authorities arrested Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University...
"...received more than $15,000,000 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Defense (DOD),” The Department of Justice said in a statement. “These grants require the disclosure of significant foreign financial conflicts of interest, including financial support from foreign governments or foreign entities.”
“Unbeknownst to Harvard University beginning in 2011, Lieber became a ‘Strategic Scientist’ at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017.” more
Authorities arrested Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University...
"...received more than $15,000,000 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Defense (DOD),” The Department of Justice said in a statement. “These grants require the disclosure of significant foreign financial conflicts of interest, including financial support from foreign governments or foreign entities.”
“Unbeknownst to Harvard University beginning in 2011, Lieber became a ‘Strategic Scientist’ at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017.” more
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| The original traveling professor. |
Hershey Sues Former Top Official - Alleges Corporate Espionage
The
Hershey Company is accusing a former top executive of committing
corporate espionage, and it and wants a federal judge to order him to
repay hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The target of Hershey’s lawsuit filed suit in U.S. Middle District Court is Doug Behrens, who is now chief customer officer of KIND LLC, a snack food maker and a competitor of Hershey.
The suit reads like the intro to a spy novel. more
Spybusters Tip #509: When someone resigns, is fired, or is laid-off... lock them out. This includes access cards, passwords, and email accounts.
Saturday, January 25, 2020
January's Hot Mic Moments... so far
Leaked audio appears to catch Trump demanding the firing of Marie Yovanovitch: “Get rid of her!”
“Get her out tomorrow," a voice that is apparently President Trump’s says in the recording. more
Hot mic catches Pence telling Netanyahu 'He's unstoppable' “We are contending. He’s unstoppable, like someone else I know,” the vice president was overheard telling Israel's prime minister. more
Trudeau's hot mic comments cause consternation in Canada... Trudeau was caught on camera at a Buckingham Palace reception for NATO seemingly trash talking President Donald Trump. more
“You Called Me a Liar”: CNN Hot Mic Catches Warren-Sanders Blowup more
Biden heard on hot mic joking with Sanders about his arm gestures at debate. more
Patrick Cantlay involved in classic hot-mic fail at Sentry Tournament of Champions... Patrick Cantlay can expect to receive a stern letter from PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan, and it won’t have anything to do with his pace of play. This one will be for “conduct unbecoming a professional.” more
Steve Kerr went BALLISTIC on a ref during the Warriors' game against the Sacramento Kings on Monday night -- and the whole profanity-laced rant was caught on a hot mic!!! more
It turns out it was Virginia State Senator Dave Marsden who called gun rights advocates "children" on a hot mic at a public meeting over the weekend. But calling them "children" was just the beginning. Things just got worse. Much worse. more
Five 'hot mic' moments that got leaders in trouble... more
"If you don't have something nice to say about somebody, don't say it." ~my mom
"Always assume you are being recorded." ~common sense
"Been there. Done that. Have the T-Shirt." ~hackneyed phrase
“Get her out tomorrow," a voice that is apparently President Trump’s says in the recording. more
Hot mic catches Pence telling Netanyahu 'He's unstoppable' “We are contending. He’s unstoppable, like someone else I know,” the vice president was overheard telling Israel's prime minister. more
Trudeau's hot mic comments cause consternation in Canada... Trudeau was caught on camera at a Buckingham Palace reception for NATO seemingly trash talking President Donald Trump. more
“You Called Me a Liar”: CNN Hot Mic Catches Warren-Sanders Blowup more
Biden heard on hot mic joking with Sanders about his arm gestures at debate. more
Patrick Cantlay involved in classic hot-mic fail at Sentry Tournament of Champions... Patrick Cantlay can expect to receive a stern letter from PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan, and it won’t have anything to do with his pace of play. This one will be for “conduct unbecoming a professional.” more
Steve Kerr went BALLISTIC on a ref during the Warriors' game against the Sacramento Kings on Monday night -- and the whole profanity-laced rant was caught on a hot mic!!! more
It turns out it was Virginia State Senator Dave Marsden who called gun rights advocates "children" on a hot mic at a public meeting over the weekend. But calling them "children" was just the beginning. Things just got worse. Much worse. more
Five 'hot mic' moments that got leaders in trouble... more
"If you don't have something nice to say about somebody, don't say it." ~my mom
"Always assume you are being recorded." ~common sense
"Been there. Done that. Have the T-Shirt." ~hackneyed phrase
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
FutureWatch: Mind-Reading Called Brain-Hacking - Food for Thought
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Harari predicted a future where governments and corporations will be able to gather enough data about citizens around the world that, when combined with computational power, will let them completely predict – and manipulate – our decisions. Harari calls this concept "brain-hacking".
"Imagine, if 20 years from now, you could have someone sitting in Washington, or Beijing, or San Francisco, and they could know the entire personal, medical, sexual history of, say, every journalist, judge and politician in Brazil," said Harari.
"You could control a whole other country with data. At which point you may ask: is it an independent country, or is it a data colony?" more Previous mind-reading posts.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Android Users Beware: These Top Camera Apps May Secretly Be Spying
The latest warning has come from the research team at CyberNews, exposing “camera apps with billions of downloads [that] might be stealing user data and infecting them with malware.”
...But that’s exactly what some of the top beauty camera apps have been found guilty of doing. more
...But that’s exactly what some of the top beauty camera apps have been found guilty of doing. more
- BeautyPlus – Easy Photo Editor & Selfie Camera
- BeautyCam
- Beauty Camera – Selfie Camera
- Selfie Camera – Beauty Camera & Photo Editor
- Beauty Camera Plus – Sweet Camera & Makeup Photo
- Beauty Camera – Selfie Camera & Photo Editor
- YouCam Perfect – Best Selfie Camera & Photo Editor
- Sweet Snap – Beauty Selfie Camera & Face Filter
- Sweet Selfie Snap – Sweet Camera & Beauty Cam Snap
- Beauty Camera – Selfie Camera with Photo Editor
- Beauty Camera – Best Selfie Camera & Photo Editor
- B612 – Beauty & Filter Camera
- Face Makeup Camera & Beauty Photo Makeup Editor
- Sweet Selfie – Selfie Camera & Makeup Photo Editor
- Selfie camera – Beauty Camera & Makeup camera
- YouCam Perfect – Best Photo Editor & Selfie Camera
- Beauty Camera Makeup Face Selfie, Photo Editor
- Selfie Camera – Beauty Camera
- Z Beauty Camera
- HD Camera Selfie Beauty Camera
- Candy Camera – selfie, beauty camera & photo editor
- Makeup Camera-Selfie Beauty Filter Photo Editor
- Beauty Selfie Plus – Sweet Camera Wonder HD Camera
- Selfie Camera – Beauty Camera & AR Stickers
- Pretty Makeup, Beauty Photo Editor & Selfie Camera
- Beauty Camera
- Bestie – Camera360 Beauty Cam
- Photo Editor – Beauty Camera
- Beauty Makeup, Selfie Camera Effects & Photo Editor
- Selfie cam – Bestie Makeup Beauty Camera & Filters
Dude, you gotta be a government before you shoot spies!
FL - A man is facing charges after authorities say he fired shots at children he thought were spying on him from canoes outside his home.
Deputies with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office
said they were called to the home in the 1500 block of Murphy Road in Pierson after the victims said they were fishing in a lake when 30-year-old Michael Adams fired several shots their way...
Adams was arrested and booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail on two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm. more
Deputies with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office
Adams was arrested and booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail on two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm. more
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