Mike and his team conducted a ‘sweep’ of the offices in conjunction with our Cyber Audit. We identified a GSM eavesdropping device planted within a boardroom during the critical areas’ in-depth physical and electronic search. This device was cunningly disguised as a 3-way extension adapter which was fully operational.
A closer examination of the adapter revealed a SIM card and a microphone connected. The client was immediately informed, and as per our standard operating procedure (SOPs), the device was isolated from the infrastructure, bagged, tagged, and handed over to our internal forensic team to investigate.
The forensic investigation of the SIM card revealed dialled and received calls. more
What is a GSM Bug? When was the last time your organization conducted an inspection for one?
Testimony that Vatican officials engaged in corporate espionage sheds new light on the breakdown of the London property deal.
Luciano Capaldo is a property developer who was closely involved in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State plans for the London London property deal at 60 Sloane Avenue...
Capaldo told investigators that he had access to surveillance cameras inside Torzi’s offices for some time.
So he passed information and images to Monsignor Mauro Carlino, a former official at the Secretariat of State currently indicted for extortion and abuse of office. The access, Capaldo said, came via a mobile phone app for which he had the login details. more
Key findings of the DTEX Systems 2022 Insider Risk Report include:
The ‘Super Malicious Insider’ accounted for 32% of malicious insider incidents...
72% year-over-year increase in actionable insider threat incidents;
42% of actionable incidents were related to IP and data theft, including industrial espionage incidents related to the theft of trade secrets, source code, and active collusion with a foreign nexus;
75% of insider threat criminal prosecutions were the result of remote workers;
56% of organizations had an insider data theft incident resulting from employees leaving or joining companies;
+200% year-over-year increase in data loss associated with users taking screenshots during confidential Zoom and Microsoft Teams meetings; and
+300% year-over-year increase in employees utilizing corporate assets for non-work activities.
For more than a decade, insider threats have been categorized as either malicious, negligent or compromised. Based on the findings of the DTEX i3 team, a fourth persona has emerged—the Super Malicious Insider.
The Super Malicious Insider is a technically proficient employee who is acutely aware of an organization’s cyber security architecture, solutions, and processes and who understands both the technical and human analyst limitations in detecting insider threat indicators. more
It is time for your organization to implement a corporate counterespionage plan.
The move was in line with China’s strict gaming regulation policies, which impose limits on how much time minors can spend playing video games—an effort to curb addictive behavior, since gaming is labeled by the state as “spiritual opium."
...video games are a natural medium for tracking, and researchers have long argued that large data sets about players’ in-game activities are a rich resource in understanding player psychology and cognition. more
A federal indictment unsealed Monday accuses a Chinese telecommunications company of stealing technology from Illinois-based Motorola Solutions Inc., in another case highlighting longstanding fears about China pilfering vital U.S. business secrets to bolster its own economy...
In a 2008 email cited in the indictment, one unnamed individual writes
to another that, “We are trying to grab whatever we can. … Do you have
anything in mind that you need while we are still here?” In another,
someone writes “haha” after describing Hytera as copying Motorola
technology...
A Chinese-born American software developer, Hanjuan Jin, was convicted in 2012 of stealing secrets from Motorola... At trial, prosecutors said Jin “led a double life” as an outwardly loyal company worker plotting to steal Motorola secrets. more
The "loyal" insider has the time and opportunity to steal information, plant bugs, and take advantage of lax security procedures. Periodic sweeps for covert eavesdropping devices, with an information security survey, are how smart corporations reduce this risk.
Pro Systems is a communications company in South Nashville that has been around since the eighties and specializes in security cameras. But when employees arrived at work just weeks ago, they found their fence cut, and about $20,000 worth of items stolen.
The company, of course, reviewed their own equipment and handed over surveillance footage to the Metro Nashville Police. Within hours, officers were able to identify and arrest the suspect seen on the business’ security cameras. more in other surveillance camera theft news
Japan - 'Bar set low for secret filming' The reason police in Japan commit voyeurism... It seems there is no end to police officers being subjected to disciplinary measures for taking sneak footage. As law enforcers who are in a position to crack down on camera voyeurs, why do they partake in such crimes? The Mainichi Shimbun asked an expert... more
LA - A Vidalia, Louisiana, man.. has also received additional charges... illicit videos involving a juvenile taken by way of a hidden camera... investigators found evidence of a video voyeurism set up by way of hidden camera, which illegally recorded inappropriate videos of a juvenile. more
Singapore - Domestic helper jailed 17 months for filming elderly man in shower, uploading clips to TikTok, WhatsApp... One video was re-posted by an unknown user on a Facebook page titled SG Dirty Fella where it went viral. more
UK - A senior Metropolitan Police officer who posed as an airline pilot and fake glamour photographer to picture up to 51 naked women has been dismissed from the force. Detective Inspector Neil Corbel, 40, took covert videos of his victims in hotel rooms, flats and Airbnbs... He 'used his anti-terror skills' to secretly film the women with spy cameras hidden in tissue boxes, phone charges, glasses and keys after contacting them under the guise of being an airline pilot named Harrison. more
China - A male doctor live-streamed a patient’s gynecological procedure on a China video-sharing website without her knowledge, raising a wave of questions on medical ethics and privacy violations. more
UK - Scots student warns pervert stepdad will always be danger to kids after dodging jail for spying on her when she was 13... It came after the creep smirked as he was spared prison last week for secretly filming his stepdaughter through a gap drilled in her wardrobe. The predator also recorded her through the keyhole of a chest and a lens hidden in an alarm clock while on a family holiday in the US. more
WY - A 33-year-old Campbell County man has been charged with nine counts of voyeurism after he allegedly set up a recording device in a bathroom and took pictures of a female getting in and out of the shower and bathtub. more
Canada - Durham Regional Police have charged a man in connection with a voyeurism
investigation in Pickering, Ont... police were called to a Walmart store ... after a man was discovered
videotaping a female customer as she was using the change rooms. Police
said the suspect was confronted by the victim and her family and said he
had deleted the photos from his cellphone before fleeing. However,
police added there were other photos on his phone of other possible
victims and are asking for the public’s help in identifying the man. more more
LA - A Sulphur man was arrested after a recording device was found in the women’s restroom of a local restaurant Tuesday, according to information from the Sulphur Police Department. The device was found before anyone in the general public was captured on video, according to Sulphur officials. more
CT - A Vernon man is being charged after police say they discovered he put cameras in his home bathroom and secretly recorded his girlfriend and her children... a few years ago, two of the children, who were 13 and 18 years old at the time, discovered a bluetooth speaker in a bathroom that was actually a hidden camera... After the children found it, they secretly swapped out its SD card and delivered the card to a friend’s house for safekeeping, the warrant said. more
WA - Former county fire marshal faces felony voyeurism charges... The charging documents allege Nicholson had hidden a camera in a sleeping area at the station, filming a female firefighter changing before getting into bed. When contacted by the detective, the firefighter that was depicted in the film stated she had not given consent to being filmed. The detective investigated the room and discovered an outlet that matched up with the angle of the video, although there was no recording device present when he inspected the outlet. more
UK - Robert Davies, 32, came to the attention of National Crime Agency
investigators in 2019 after he purchased a number of cyber crime tools,
including crypters and remote administration tools (RATs)... Davies was infecting his victims’ phones or computers with malicious
software by disguising it with the crypters so their anti-virus
protection would not detect it. He then used the RATs to gain remote
access to their devices and steal any sexual images (mainly of females)
they had stored on there. On at least one occasion, he used his illegal access to spy on a
teenage girl through her webcam, turning the encounter into a number of
indecent images. more more
General - Laws on surveillance cameras at home can vary by state. As there’s no comprehensive set of regulations that govern residential security cameras or video surveillance, it’s essential to have a broad understanding of the concerns involved with these systems and devices. It’s just as important to know the laws at the state, county, and even local levels. more
The Epoch Times - Video Report: Spy Cameras, Blackmail Rampant in China more
These stories are presented to raise awareness.
Spycam Facts:
Any organization with expectation of privacy areas needs this to protect their employees, visitors and customers ... and themselves, from forseeability law suits.
Mr Buckley, 61, appeared in an online hearing in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday facing multiple assault and stalking charges levelled against him by his ex-bikini model girlfriend Jennifer Cruz Cole.
The court heard Ms Cole walked in on Buckley’s co-accused, Wade D’Andrea, who was attempting to retrieve listening devices installed in her home...
There are further claims he later hired two others to plant listening devices inside her apartment and car. more
Ms. Cole was lucky.
#1 She caught the bugger in the act.
#2 She didn't get injured by doing so.
People in high profile legal cases, and corporate executives, are advised to have professional Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) inspections conducted on a regular basis.
Based on conversations with Vlasov, Ebadi allegedly found that "Black Box was initially responsible for suggesting that a secret listening device be planted in Ms. Spears bedroom, but Mr. Spears 'loved' the idea and approved and instructed that the installation move forward." more
People traveling to China for the 2022 Winter Olympics—including athletes, government dignitaries, and corporate executives—are all at risk of personal data exposure and being surveilled by the Chinese regime, a data security expert warned. more
Beijing requires all athletes to install a smartphone app called MY2022 to report health and travel data while in China. The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab reported the app as having significant encryption and security flaws and a censorship list (albeit currently inactive) of 2,442 “illegal words.” The security flaws are by design, allowing authorities to access phones. Such subtle approaches are common among intelligence services.
Cellphone tracking, onsite video surveillance systems, and facial recognition technology will be used to track the movement of each athlete. China has the most sophisticated facial recognition and associated artificial intelligence in the world, thanks in part to collaborations with U.S. universities and businesses.
Personal behavior will also be watched and catalogued by the Chinese government. more
Yamaha Unified Communications is broadening its support for productive and confidential conferences and meetings with the new VSP-2 Speech Privacy System. The new system is designed to be quickly retrofitted in almost any office. It also features Yamaha’s high-performance audio technology that prevents speech privacy problems. This is achieved by effectively reducing human voice intelligibility with customizable sound options.
Mary, Queen of Scots used a "spiral locking" technique to seal the last letter she wrote before her execution, indicating that she wanted the contents to remain secret, according to research published in the Electronic British Library Journal.
Eavesdropping Bugs and Hot Mics have something in common... both capture private conversations not for publication. Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) inspections can combat the bugging. Hot Mic avoidance is more a do-it-yourself exercise. It requires you listen to your mom's advice, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it."
“Can you imagine waking up next to her every day? Oh, my God,” Judge William Raines said of attorney Jennifer Bonjean. “... I couldn’t have a visual on that if you paid me.”
A link to the video of Tuesday’s livestreamed court call was available for viewing as recently as Thursday morning. After Raines had finished hearing cases, he began to chat with two Cook County prosecutors and a Cook County assistant public defender about the legal argument Bonjean had participated in earlier that day. He apparently did not realize the conversation was still being broadcast live on YouTube.
“I’m
reliving (Assistant State’s Attorney) Todd Dombrowski’s conversation
with Miss Bonjean,” he said, apparently unprompted. “... Did you see her
going nuts? Glasses off, fingers through her hair, the phone’s going
all over the place, it’s insane.” more
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Secret Audio Sheds Light on Toppled Dictator’s Frantic Last Hours
Tunisia - The recordings - obtained by BBC News Arabic Documentaries - have been
forensically analysed by audio experts who found no evidence of
tampering or manipulation...
"When we see that you can come back, we'll let you know, Mr President," Ammar tells Ben Ali...
"There's anger on the streets in a way that I cannot describe," Grira says. He seems keen to be clear with the president, adding: "So that you cannot say that I misled you, and the decision is yours."
Ben Ali tries to defend his reputation. "What have I done to the street? I served it."
"I'm giving you the situation, not an explanation" Grira replies. more
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ME - The broadcasters, who didn’t realize their microphones were on, made the derogatory remarks about players in a girls’ game between Central Aroostook and Easton that they were watching on a monitor while they prepared for their game at Caribou.
In a 40-second video posted to Twitter, the two are heard making derogatory comments about the weight of some players. One of the broadcasters was heard to say, “two girls out here extremely overweight. Awful.” Other derogatory comments were followed by laughter.
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Hot Mic Revenge - The FAUCI Act
DC - After Dr. Anthony Fauci was caught on a hot mic calling Senator Roger
Marshall a moron, Marshall publicized his financial records and
announced the impending introduction of the FAUCI Act. more
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Rebecca Maddern's Explosive Leaked Rant About Novak Djokovic---
Hot Mic at Anchorage Community Council Zoom MeetingIn a new profile by New York magazine's Olivia Nuzzi, Oz and his wife, Lisa, were overheard discussing Nuzzi as well as a friend of the couple who spoke to Nuzzi about the doctor's recent announcement that he was running in Pennsylvania for the U.S. Senate.
In the story, Nuzzi described a
call with Lisa Oz, during which the latter thought she had hung up but
had left the reporter on the line as she and her husband "engaged in
paranoid conversation and argument for more than four minutes" while
Nuzzi listened. more
Rutland wasn’t the cloak-and-dagger type — he was one of the best known,
and most well-liked, figures in L.A. society circles. “Squared jaw;
well poised; highly intelligent; good personality; modest; gives
appearance of affluence and breeding,” read the 300-page FBI dossier on
Rutland, which was only recently declassified. more