In October 2020, the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office in New York was notified by an adult woman, who has not been named, that Ort put a round, “black spy camera in (her) bedroom while visiting (her) home,” the news release said. Ort visited this adult’s home in Syracuse to visit her family, according to the plea agreement.
This woman found the hidden camera with an SD card, and after reviewing the card, she “discovered a video of a minor female using the bathroom... Then, Ort was seen “entering the bathroom and adjusting the camera.” more
This technology won't necessarily stop a human listener from understanding someone if they're snooping (you can give recordings a listen and view the source code at the link above). Rather, this is a system designed to stop devices equipped with microphones from transmitting automatically transcribed recordings. It's quiet – just above a whisper – but can generate sound specifically modeled to obscure speech in real time so that conversations can't be transcribed by software and acted upon or the text sent back to some remote server for processing...
According to Vondrick, the algorithm his team developed can stop a
microphone-equipped AI model from interpreting speech 80 percent of the
time, all without having to hear a whole recording, or knowing anything
about the gadget doing the listening. more
A Shelby Township man accused two years ago of hiding cameras to spy on people at a tanning salon is at it again, Wayne County prosecutors allege.
Brian Michael Maciborski, 40, allegedly placed a camera in the ceiling grate of a gym's tanning bed area to record a 24-year-old Westland woman on Feb. 23, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office. more
1. Hire a competent professional corporate counterespionage consultant.
2. Have them conduct a Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) bug sweep. You need to eliminate the possibility of electronic surveillance before you start accusing people.
3. Follow your consultant's advice about how to proceed. The investigative process will be customized from this point on.
C. Any information that can be used against a competitor.
D. Racing competitors to find information.
2. What are trade secrets?
A. All public information about a company's product
B. Information about a company's external procedures
C. Proprietary information about a company's products, processes, and procedures that can only be obtained internally.
D. All answers are correct.
According to the report, the alleged ‘Peeping Tom’ was captured on video surveillance taking photographs/ and/or video of the inside of an occupied residence in the 3000 block of Robert Street with his cellular device.The video, which appears to be from a ‘Ring’ doorbell camera, is time-stamped at 11:19 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6.
The NOPD is seeking the public’s help in identifying the accused suspect. more
Google searches for eavesdropping up 47% in past week - Worldwide
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 - Tuesday, April 12, 2022.
Fawaz and graduate student Yucheng Yang investigated whether this "mic-off-light-on" phenomenon was more widespread. They tried out many different videoconferencing applications on major operating systems, including iOS, Android, Windows and Mac, checking to see if the apps still accessed the microphone when it was muted.
"It turns out, in the vast majority of cases, when you mute yourself, these apps do not give up access to the microphone," says Fawaz. "And that's a problem. When you're muted, people don't expect these apps to collect data."...
Turning off a microphone
is possible in most device operating systems, but it usually means
navigating through several menus. Instead, the team suggests the
solution might lie in developing easily accessible software "switches"
or even hardware switches that allow users to manually enable and
disable their microphones. more
The rapid research and development in information technologies and electronic devices, along with their shrinkage in size has made surveillance obtainable to each of us. All you have to do is Google for GSM tracker, spy camera, hidden voice recorder. Don’t be surprised to see hundreds of thousands or even millions of espionage gear offers...
Detecting the bugging devices is not an easy and simple work. The term describing this type of activity is TSCM which is the abbreviation of Technical Surveillance Counter Measures. TSCM survey is a service provided by qualified personnel to detect the presence of technical surveillance devices and hazards and to identify technical security weaknesses that could aid in the conduct of a technical penetration of the surveyed facility.
A TSCM survey normally consists of a thorough
visual, electronic and physical inspection inside and outside of the
surveyed facility. In conducting surveillance protection one has to be
familiar with the tapping methods; hardware and software products;
engineering solutions used for this purpose as well as their unmasking
signs. Without this knowledge it is not possible to detect a well hidden
bug. more
China is reportedly developing an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) system that could turn low-cost commercial satellites, already orbiting the Earth, into powerful espionage platforms. Reports suggest it could have a success rate roughly seven times higher than existing technology.
The new system is being developed by Chinese military researchers, who say it is capable of tracking moving objects as small as a car with extraordinary precision... more
Estimates of the number of Russian diplomatic personnel booted from EU and NATO member states range from 120 to nearly 400.
Foreign Policy reports that at least 394 officials have been expelled since the February invasion began. Germany
alone has expelled 40 members of the Russian delegation, a significant
number and a substantial action by a country, like many others, that
imports Russian natural gas. The stated reason for these expulsions is
to protest Russia’s war in Ukraine, though the expulsions will do little
to impact the war. more