Denny Hatch: All your emails are being stolen and sold all over the world. (a must read)
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Israel-based Bosco, an app that lets parents monitor their
children’s smartphone activities, has raised $4 million in a Series A
funding round...
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A woman’s encounter with a man accused of spying on her 12-year-old daughter is going viral. Salt Lake City police arrested 36-year-old Jorge Leon-Alfaro,
Saturday, after witnesses said he tried to record the girl from an
adjacent dressing room stall inside the Rue 21 store at Brickyard Plaza. The girl’s mother tracked the man down and recorded her comments toward him as she waited for police to arrive.
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Israeli researchers attached a surveillance device onto a seagull's leg in
order to track its route. During its flight, the innocent bird landed in
Tripoli where locals caught it and transferred the bird to the authorities
on suspicion of spying for Israel; The ornithologist who attached the
device: 'Let the bird live and set it free.'
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Ufologist Scott Waring has published photographs of a UFO spying on deer
peacefully grazing. An interesting phenomenon happened in the U.S. in
Mississippi.
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SC - An upstate couple is under investigation after Greenville County
Deputies say a camera was discovered in a room they rent out to the
public through Airbnb.
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Scotland - Scientists eavesdrop on disappearing sea trout. They have positioned a total of 40 acoustic receivers at various locations around Loch Laxford, near Scourie, on the far north-west coast.
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Austria’s far-right ordered a raid on its own intelligence service. Now allies are freezing the country out.
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Mozilla has removed 23 Firefox add-ons that spy on user activity.
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WA - A judge has awarded a couple $1 million in damages after they sued a
former lifeguard and city employee who admitted to videotaping women
while they used a staff changing area at an aquatic center.
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South Korean woman given rare jail term for spycam crime.
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Secretly filming women in motel rooms or toilet stalls to
upload online is a multimillion-dollar business operation in
Korea.
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Study from Vanderbilt professor finds Google tracking is even creepier than you thought.
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It is remarkably easy to buy “Spy Pens” if you were inclined to record secret conversations at the White House.
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In what might be the most 2018 news story ever, head coach Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Steelers have erected a tarp near one of their practice facilities.
Austria has some of the most relaxed laws on spying of any country in the world and those laws have not been updated since the Austro-Hungarian empire fell, even with two world wars and the Cold War since then. In fact, the only spying activities that are illegal in the country are the kind that directly target Austria. Vienna also hosts one of four headquarters of the United Nations and is home to about 40 other important international organizations that have delegations from all over the world, including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). With approximately 320 bilateral and multilateral diplomatic representations operating in Vienna, nearly 4,000 diplomats, and more than 6,000 international officials, Vienna is brimming with information foreign intelligence services want to collect.
Back in 2013, Facebook acquired Israel-based Onavo, a small mobile analytics company that offered a virtual private network (VPN) app called Onavo Protect. In general, VPN apps seek to give users greater privacy and control around their data by routing traffic through a secure network. In this case, Onavo Protect started sending all that user data back to the Facebook mothership...
A fully functioning Apple-1 being auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction
in September is one of only 60 or so remaining of the original 200 that
were designed and built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 and
1977...
ERII today announced registration for the 2018 Annual ERII Counterespionage Conference, a gathering of worldwide technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM), counterintelligence and counterespionage professionals, is now open to ERII members and non-members. The conference will be held September 20-22, 2018, at the Embassy Suites Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia. Three-day, two-day and single-day conference tickets are available to ERII members and non-members. Special government ticket pricing is also available. more
Earlier this month, a Washington federal court made a ruling in the case, in which it denied in part, and granted in part, Cryobank America’s motion to dismiss. The court granted the motion to dismiss on a vague claim of unfair competition under Washington law. But it denied the motion — and let the lawsuit proceed, in other words — on two other claims: a federal claim under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, and a state claim under the Washington Uniform Trade Secrets Act. more
Let’s get this out of the way first. 
In collaboration with James Bond film producer EON Productions, the automaker will build 25 "Goldfinger DB5s," with a straight-six, 282 horsepower, 3,995cc motor that will allow a top speed of 145 mph and 0 to 60 time of 7.1 seconds.
What needs real investment, and not necessarily in cash terms is the trinity of People, Process and Technology (PPT). A security vulnerability can appear in any element of the business and a holistic approach that covers all colleagues and operations is vital for a good active defensive strategy.
In July 1956, the Pennsylvania Bar Association Endowment (PBAE) commissioned a comprehensive study of "wiretapping practices, laws, devices, and techniques" in the United States. At the time, Pennsylvania was one of several jurisdictions in the country without a statute regulating eavesdropping. Members of the PBAE's Board believed that a nationwide fact-finding mission had the potential to help state lawmakers establish effective policies for police agencies and private citizens. The man appointed to direct the study was Samuel Dash, a prominent Philadelphia prosecutor whose stint as the city's District Attorney had given him a first-hand look at eavesdropping abuses on both sides of the law. Two decades later, while serving as Chief Counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee, Dash would see many of those abuses come full circle...
