Be
aware of scammers pretending to be COVID-19 contact tracers.
Legitimate contact tracers will never ask for your Medicare Number or financial information. If someone calls
and asks for personal information, like your Medicare Number, hang up and report it to 1-800-MEDICARE. medicare.gov & more
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Privacy Alert - Scammers Pretending to be COVID-19 Contact Tracers
Verizon Launches Hyper-Precise GPS Location Technology
Verizon launched its Hyper Precise Location using Real Time Kinematics (RTK), a location technology that provides location accuracy within 1-2 centimeters, on the Verizon network.
Verizon has built and deployed RTK reference stations nationwide to provide pinpoint level accuracy to RTK compatible internet of things (IoT) devices. RTK will also support emerging technologies that depend on high level location accuracy such as delivery drones and customer-approved location data for first responders during emergencies...
Additionally, the rollout of hyper-precise location services paired with Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband (UWB) network and 5G Edge, will pave the way for more autonomous technologies. more
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Corporate Espionage in the News
RedCurl is its name.
Corporate espionage is its game.
Security researchers today published findings on a new APT group they claim has been stealing data from organizations around the world as far back as 2018. Since then, RedCurl has targeted at least 14 private companies in 26 attacks designed to steal documents containing commercial secrets and employees' personal information.
Its targets span a range of industries and locations. The group has targeted organizations in construction, finance, consulting, retail, banking, insurance, law, and travel...
There is no indication who might have hired RedCurl, where they might be based, or who is behind these attacks, he adds. The group is fairly new, and researchers hope to learn more over time.
"Corporate espionage is not something that we're used to on the cyberscene," Mirkasymov says. Researchers believe the frequency of these attacks indicates it's likely to become more widespread in the future. more
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Three corporate espionage reasons why VW was not a good career choice...
March 14th - Former VW employee says he was fired after questioning deletion of documents. more
June 16th - Former VW employee sought by U.S. arrested in Croatia... more
August 14th - Former VW employee under investigation for corporate espionage found dead in burned-out car...was investigated by the police on suspicion of violating business secrets. more
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The U.S. National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation today issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning on a previously undisclosed form of Russian malware...although the objectives of Drovorub were not detailed in the report, they could range from industrial espionage to election interference. more
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Once again, LinkedIn is the battleground for nation state espionage operations. Every counterintelligence and insider threat professional should be paying attention...The goal of the social engineer is to entice the target to at least take a gander at the job offering being discussed and click the attachment which is provided. This attachment carries the payload of malware designed to compromise the device and network of the target. Once the device is compromised and the group has access to the content, their espionage goals are achieved. more
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...and Corporate Espionage can also be entertaining...
As the conflict between global corporations heats up, one man decides to strike back against the unseen forces that quietly rule the modern world, using an entirely unanticipated weapon — his own mind. That’s the idea at the center of American Ronin...The series is the first collaboration between writer Peter Milligan (Shade the Changing Man, Hellblazer, X-Force) and artist ACO (Midnighter, Nick Fury), with the two playing off each other’s strengths to create a story that’s part-corporate espionage, part-superhuman thriller and unlike anything else on the stands at the moment. more
Thursday, August 13, 2020
White Sims from the Dark Side
Russian SIMs. Encrypted SIMs. White SIMs.
Beyond spoofing phone numbers, some SIMs let a caller manipulate their voice in real-time, adding a baritone or shrill cloak to their phone calls that is often unintentionally funny. Other cards have the more worthwhile benefit of being worldwide, unlimited data SIMs that criminals source anonymously from suppliers without having to give up identifying information and by paying in Bitcoin.
The SIM cards themselves aren't inherently illegal, but criminals certainly make a noticeable chunk of the companies' customer bases. The NCA told Motherboard it has seized so-called Russian SIMs from suspects during investigations. more
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Attack Can Decrypt 4G (LTE) Calls to Eavesdrop on Conversations
A team of academics has detailed this week a vulnerability in the Voice over LTE (VoLTE) protocol that can be used to break the encryption on 4G voice calls.
Named ReVoLTE, researchers say this attack is possible because mobile operators often use the same encryption key to secure multiple 4G voice calls that take place via the same base station (mobile cell tower)...
Researchers say that the equipment to pull off a ReVoLTE attack costs around $7,000. While the price might seem steep, it is certainly in the price range of other 3G/4G mobile interception gear, usually employed by law enforcement or criminal gangs...
A scientific paper detailing the ReVoLTE attack is also available for download as PDF from here and here. The paper is titled "Call Me Maybe: Eavesdropping Encrypted LTE Calls With ReVoLTE." more
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Eavesdropping: A Reader (book)
According to William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1769), 'eavesdroppers, or such as listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales, are a common nuisance and presentable at the court-leet'.
Today, however, eavesdropping is not only legal, it's ubiquitous – unavoidable. What was once a minor public-order offence has become one of the key political and legal problems of our time, as the Snowden revelations made clear.
Eavesdropping addresses the capture and control of our sonic world by state and corporate interests, alongside strategies of resistance. For editors James Parker (Melbourne Law School) and Joel Stern (Liquid Architecture), eavesdropping isn't necessarily malicious.
We cannot help but hear too much, more than we mean to. Eavesdropping is a condition of social life. And the question is not whether to eavesdrop, therefore, but how. buy or free (pdf)
Friday, August 7, 2020
1650 Kircher Musurgia Listening Devices
The book Musurgia Universalis is famous
and has been since it appeared in 1650.
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| Vol. 2 (Af-x.10): plate between pages 302 & 303 |
The illustration depicts a piazza-listening device.
The voices from the piazza are taken by the horn up through the mouth of the statue in the room on the piano nobile above, allowing both espionage and the appearance of a miraculous event. more
The modern eavesdropping equivalent is the ventilation plenum. Acoustical ducting is something most people don't consider when concerned about eavesdropping. We do.
Woman Charged with Wiretapping at Church
MD - A woman is facing felony wiretapping charges on allegations she secretly recorded board meetings at the Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary.
Rosanna
E. Tufts, 61, of Cockeysville, was charged with 11 counts of
interception, disclosure or use of wire, electronic or oral
communication. more
Corporate Espionage Quote of the Week
"The threat model in corporate espionage is absolutely one of theft of property. It’s a lot easier to steal somebody’s laptop than to hack it." ~ toxik
National Security Concerns — Executive Orders Against TikTok
“This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party
access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information — potentially
allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and
contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and
conduct corporate espionage,” the TikTok order reads. more
Satellite Comms Globally Open to $300 Eavesdropping Hack
Essentially what this means is that if they were able to perform an
interception, adversaries could eavesdrop on vast sections of the globe. more
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
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