A mysterious beluga whale was dubbed a spy when he appeared off Norway's coast wearing a Russian harness... The whale seemed to be seeking help... The fisherman put on a survival suit and jumped into the icy water, freed the whale and retrieved the harness. To his surprise it had a camera mount and clips bearing the inscription "Equipment St. Petersburg"...
The elaborate surveillance operation was set up in 1999 in an attempt to gather evidence from five men accused of the teenager’s murder, as they enjoyed a two-week break after giving a high-profile TV interview...
But the Daily Mail yesterday revealed how, before they arrived, police had planted hidden microphones in the house, in the Perthshire village of Forteviot. The submarine, which took up position off Dundee, sent the signal back to London...
The Met rigged up the whole venue with hidden listening devices even placing them in golf buggies the suspects rode on in the quaint village of Forteviot.
They relayed their signal to a helicopter circling nearby which passed it onto the sub which in turn fired it down to detectives in Scotland Yard.
Even the friendly minibus driver who showed them the sights during their 15-day Highlands stay was an undercover police officer, reports the Mail.
One source said: “It was pure James Bond. It was run like a big
anti-terror operation. The team had every piece of kit you had ever
heard of.” more more
You probably haven't seen PimEyes, a mysterious facial-recognition search engine, but it may have spotted you... Anyone can use this powerful facial-recognition tool — and that's a problem.
If you upload a picture of your face to PimEyes' website, it will immediately show you any pictures of yourself that the company has found around the internet. You might recognize all of them, or be surprised (or, perhaps, even horrified) by some; these images may include anything from wedding or vacation snapshots to pornographic images.
PimEyes is open to anyone with internet access. more
Australia - A bull shark under surveillance left scientists scratching their heads after it seemed to begin traveling down a major roadway in New South Wales.
Marine biologists noticed the predator – or at least its tag – was moving along the Princes Highway between Shellharbour and Wollongong, having apparently quit the sea at Shell Cove on Wednesday morning. more
I recall a somewhat similar incident involving a bear here in New Jersey... sing-a-long Enjoy the weekend!
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via Jen Fox, SANS OUCH Newsletter...
While some of today’s cyber criminals
do use advanced technologies, many simply use the phone to trick their victims...
Anytime anyone calls you and creates a tremendous sense of urgency or pressure, be extremely suspicious. They are attempting to rush you into making a mistake. Even if the phone call seems OK at first, if it starts to feel strange, you can stop and say “no” at any time.
Be especially wary of callers who insist that you purchase gift cards or prepaid debit cards.
Never trust Caller ID. Bad guys will often spoof the number, so it looks like it is coming from a legitimate organization or has the same area code as your phone number.
Never allow a caller to take temporary control of your computer or trick you into downloading software. This is how they can infect your computer.
Unless you placed the call, never give the other party information that they should already have. For example, if the bank called you, they shouldn’t be asking for your account number.
If you believe a phone call is an attack, simply hang up. If you want to confirm that the phone call was legitimate, go to the organization’s website (such as your bank) and call the customer support phone number directly yourself. That way, you really know you are talking to the real organization.
If a phone call is coming from someone you do not personally know, let the call go directly
to voicemail. This way you can review unknown calls on your own time. Even better, on
many phones you can enable this by default with the “Do Not Disturb” feature. more
A new report today says that AirTag stalking is “frighteningly easy” thanks to a number of weaknesses in Apple’s privacy protections...
...An AirTag starts a three-day countdown clock on its alarm as soon as it’s out of the range of the iPhone it’s paired with. Since many victims live with their abusers, the alert countdown could be reset each night when the owner of the AirTag comes back into its range...
...There’s an option in the Find My app to turn off all of these “item safety alerts” — and adjusting it doesn’t require entering your PIN or password. People in abusive situations don’t always have total control over their phones...
...The only protection for Android users is the audible alert after three days, and it’s already been shown that the speaker can be disabled... more
While Coca-Cola’s namesake syrup for its flagship soft drink is one of the most well-known trade secrets in food manufacturing, the beverage giant’s other secrets apparently are a little more vulnerable.
On April 22, the U.S. Department of Justice said that a federal jury in Tennessee convicted a Michigan woman of conspiracy to steal trade secrets, economic espionage and wire fraud regarding Coke’s formulas for its BPA-free coatings inside its beverage cans. She was originally indicted in February 2019, with a superseding indictment charged in August of last year.
According to court documents and evidence
presented during her 12-day trial, 59-year-old Dr. Xiaorong You, who
goes by Shannon You, stole the valuable formulation material while
working for the company in Atlanta and at Eastman Chemical Company in
Kingsport, Tennessee. The stolen BPA trade secrets belonged to major
chemical and coating makers that include Akzo-Nobel, BASF, Dow Chemical,
PPG and others, and cost nearly 120 million dollars to develop. more
If so, perhaps you should apply to be the next "Q" at Britain's MI6 foreign spy service.
The head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service said on Thursday (April 29) that the spy agency was hunting for a new tech chief, "Director General Q", known to all James Bond movie fans simply as "Q".
"We're looking for a new 'Q'. If you want to serve your country by helping MI6 to develop the operational technology of the future, please take a look," Mr Richard Moore wrote on Twitter...
The ad warned that the successful candidate would "not be publicly
avowed", while there was no mention of any ability to design watches
with lasers or bagpipes that turn into flamethrowers. more
via John Jay College...
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the reasons that national security
investigations of possible terrorists and those working for foreign
agents fell sharply last year, says a new government report.
Far fewer
targets underwent secret surveillance, according to NPR. The
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act empowers the FBI to monitor the
communications inside the United States of people suspected of being
agents of a foreign power. more
'Tiger King' star Jeff Lowe claims Carol Baskin, husband Howard were spying on his property with drones. Howard Baskin denied snooping on the 'Tiger King' star in a statement to Fox News.
The "Tiger King" star further claims that when he went to confront a film crew that appeared to be filming, Baskin and Howard bolted and Lowe ended up in a scuffle with one of his neighbors, who was allegedly with the film crew.
Lowe’s
neighbors – a couple – ran away when confronted but the neighbors' son
allegedly got in a tussle with Lowe, the gossip site reported Lowe told
them of the incident on Tuesday. more
You want a Bird Buddy? It’s a smart bird feeder that notifies you via an app when a feathered friend has approached the vicinity.
The in-built camera turns on, records and takes pictures of the wee thing as it pecks away at the bird seed. And you can get your kicks as you watch it and take pictures on your phone.
The team behind the Bird Buddy says it captures their photos and organizes them in a “beautiful collection that is easy to view and share." more
Note: This is a crowd-funded project.
$7,132,542
USD
by 30,767 backers
$5,092,995 USD by 22,921 backers
on Jan 14, 2021 with another platform
The regulations, which were released and took effect on Monday, come amid deepening hostilities between China and some western governments, including over the detention of foreigners accused of national security crimes.
According to state media,
state security will work with other government departments to “adjust”
the list of groups susceptible to foreign espionage and to develop
measures to safeguard against it, including Chinese Communist Party and
state organs, social groups, enterprises and public institutions. more