Essentially what this means is that if they were able to perform an
interception, adversaries could eavesdrop on vast sections of the globe. more
Friday, August 7, 2020
Satellite Comms Globally Open to $300 Eavesdropping Hack
Thursday, August 6, 2020
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Recent Spycam News
FL - A Bradenton man was arrested July 24 for shooting video of a girl undressing in a beach changing station. more & more
FL - Justin Stueve is accused of rape and video voyeurism
of his then-wife, who said she found a thumb drive full of explicit
photos of herself. A judge has ruled that defense attorneys will be allowed to review
photos allegedly taken by their client of his ex-wife while she was
unconscious. more
Japan - Police in Tokyo have arrested a 34-year-old man and his 35-year-old
common-law wife on suspicion of extortion after they threatened a man
that they would report him to police for taking upskirt videos of the
woman unless he paid them money...The man agreed to pay 1.1 million yen in return for not being reported to the police. more
WA - Former Arlington Christian teacher charged with voyeurism. more
UT - Deputies arrest 26-year-old for suspected voyeurism after parents find him on roof. more
WA - Outlook man charged with voyeurism of 15-year-old girl. more
LA - A Bossier Parish school teacher...at Benton Elementary School faces 30 new charges...(including) 10 counts of video voyeurism. more
UK - Firm pursues damage claims for victims of disgraced doctor...Given the large number of images taken it is possible many women who saw Dr Altaii were covertly filmed yet remain unaware of that fact even today. more
S. Korea - South Korean singer A investigated for illegally filming women...A is suspected of secretly filming the bodies of several women,
including sex scenes, using hidden cameras until early this year...South Korea is notorious for illegal filming crimes also known as molka crimes. more
(BTW - Spycam Detection Training now has Korean sub-titles.)
Canada - A suspended Mountie charged with sex crimes by two different police
services across the country is alleged to have secretly filmed women 34
times inside the bathroom of his south Ottawa apartment, during sex and
in hotel rooms. more
FL - Robert Privette, 49, was staying at the
DoubleTree resort in Key West when he is alleged to have heard two women
in the room next door returning from the beach. Privette is then said to have managed to
slide a tiny spy camera surreptitiously under the door of the room in
order to film the pair, aged 24 and 27, as they undressed after a day on
the sands. more
AR - A 41-year-old man accused of secretly videotaping a female teenager with
a hidden camera in a Bluetooth speaker is facing video voyeurism and
child pornography charges. more
India - A man arrested for voyeurism jumped into the sea while being taken to
the beach by the police to collect evidence on Wednesday. His hands were
cuffed. His body is yet to be found. more
UK - A former presenter of BBC News...who has shifted his
career from being a British TV news personality to evangelical
preaching, said most of these offences were committed with children
during the past 30 years...He also
admitted to two counts of making explicit videos of children... more
UK - A man has admitted using a hidden camera to film people using the toilet in Bristol...Prosecutor May Li said Andrews was discovered when one
of the victims noticed a green light above a doorway and saw it was a
hidden camera. When she looked at what was in the memory card, she saw Andrews’ face in the footage. (Darwin Award) more
You too can find hidden spy cameras. more
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Personal Alert: Home Sellers Eavesdropping on Buyers
You never want to reveal too much enthusiasm when home shopping. But
now many are giving away their hand before they ever get inside. more
NSA Tells Mobile Users Beware of Find-My-Phone
And don't forget to limit ad tracking. Advisory contains a host of recommendations.
The National Security Agency is recommending that some government workers and people generally concerned about privacy turn off find-my-phone, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth whenever those services are not needed, as well as limit location data usage by apps.
“Location data can be extremely valuable and must be protected,” an advisory published on Tuesday stated. “It can reveal details about the number of users in a location, user and supply movements, daily routines (user and organizational), and can expose otherwise unknown associations between users and locations.” more
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
How to Hide from Drones in the Age of Surveillance
...it’s time to think about how many eyes are in the sky and how to avoid unwanted aerial surveillance. One way that’s within reach of nearly everyone is learning how to simply disappear from view.
How to disappear
The first thing you can do to hide from a drone is to take advantage of the natural and built environment. more tips
Monday, August 3, 2020
Staffing Firm Alleges Corporate Espionage by Former Employees
In a 54-page filing with the Federal District Court in Northern District earlier this month, Adecco accuses the upstart Staffworks of raiding its Corning, Elmira, Utica and Syracuse staff to steal proprietary account information and using it to steal long-established business...
- Former employees commandeered a Adecco Corning office Facebook page for their own use, renaming it and taking control of posts.
- A former Adecco employee broke into locked office filing cabinets, drilling through locks, "to remove colleague personnel files and other Adecco documents containing confidential information." The employee contends she was only trying to obtain personal items from the locked cabinet.
- Proprietary pricing information and profit margin details was emailed from internal email accounts to personnel accounts before Adecco cut off access.
- Those named in the suit refused to return company laptops and mobile devices with critical and confidential client and company details.
- In their last weeks of employment , three defendants sabotaged client relationships by failing to enter information into a payroll system, later using the foul-up as evidence that Adecco was "going downhill," in an attempt to land new clients. more
Note to Adecco: Time for a thorough TSCM inspection. (search for eavesdropping devices)
The Vatican Hack
State-sponsored hackers have reportedly targeted Vatican computer networks in an attempt to give China an advantage in negotiations to renew a provisional deal with the Holy See.
A report, released July 28, said that hackers may have used a counterfeit condolence message from Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, to gain access to Vatican communications. more
A report, released July 28, said that hackers may have used a counterfeit condolence message from Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, to gain access to Vatican communications. more
Block TikTok, or Microsoft to the Rescue
U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, claimed that TikTok sends user data to China, exerting pressure on the video-sharing social networking service. Pompeo brought attention to the fact that if personal information flows across a Chinese server, it will eventually end up in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party which he calls an “Evil Empire”.
TikTok has denied U.S. allegations but a report by cyber experts at ProtonMail says otherwise. The report is more a warning as it states – “Beware, the social media giant not only collects troves of personal data on you, but also cooperates with the CCP, extending China’s surveillance and censorship reach beyond its borders.” more
In other news...
Microsoft said Sunday it will continue talks to buy short-form video app, TikTok after its chief executive spoke with President Trump, following a weekend of uncertainty clouding the future of the Chinese-owned app. more
Connect the Dots...
When Microsoft bought Skype, Wired Magazine noted, "The Skype client itself is written almost as if it were a piece of malware, using complex obfuscation and anti-reverse engineering techniques, and it would be disquieting for Microsoft to release something that behaved in such a shady way; at the very least, the client would surely have to be rewritten to avoid the obfuscation and outright hostility to
managed networks that Skype currently has... Ultimately, it's hard to see how the Skype purchase is worthwhile from a
technology or user-access perspective. The technology isn't good enough
and the users aren't lucrative enough or plentiful enough to justify
it. more
Microsoft already had Windows Live Messenger. Did it really need Skype? Skype you might recall was a predominately Estonian-based encrypted platform. It was giving governments fits worldwide. Then, in 2011, Microsoft bought it. Guess what happened.
TikTok, it appears, is also giving government fits. Who ya gonna call?
FutureWatch: Early (1930) Facetime Smartphone Calls
"This technology was predicted by many authors, futurists, and illustrators in the past. This one is one of the earliest illustrations on this subject; it was made in 1930. Again, the resemblance with a modern gadget that we all know as “smartphone” is uncanny." more
Saturday, August 1, 2020
Friday, July 31, 2020
"The Name's Richard, not Roger"
Richard Moore succeeds Alex Younger, who was a career intelligence officer and became Britain's top spy in 2014. moore
Thursday, July 30, 2020
The Little Bugger Spycam or Beetleloose
Scientists developed a teensy-tiny black-and-white camera that can
comfortably be mounted on a live beetle—specifically a death-feigning
beetle and a Pinacate beetle.
The device streamed photos and videos
straight to an iPhone, depicting exactly what the beetle was staring at:
from squirrels that look like hulking grizzly bears to a truck that
looms like a mountain. They published their findings in Science Robotics last week.
The entire system weighs around a tenth of a playing card, uses minimal
power, and keeps the frame pointed at where the bug looks by mimicking
its steering mechanisms. more
GPS Tracker – World’s Smallest and More
New features have arrived, too. Some have…
- SOS buttons
- Audio eavesdropping capability
- Integration with Google Maps
- Speed reporting
- Geo-fencing with automatic alerts
- Disable vehicle
- Updates every five seconds
- Wireless recharging
- Worldwide coverage
- Bluetooth – for tracking the last few feet
Saturday, July 25, 2020
DHS Gives Federal Agencies 24 hours to Patch Critical Microsoft Windows Vulnerability
Our friend in cold country has a hot tip for you!
Thanks, Mike.
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Thanks, Mike.
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If you’re running an externally facing Windows DNS
server, it should be patched as soon as possible. It’s probably a
good idea to work this patch into your internal patch management cycle
as well.
CVE-2020-1350
If your DNS is managed by an external IT firm, please feel free to forward this to them.
If you’re not sure, drop me an email or give me a call at (907) 354-4879 (cell).
Thanks,
-Mike.
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Mike Messick
President, Deep Forest Security Consulting
PO Box 242334
Anchorage, AK. 99524-2334
(907) 334-9090 Office
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