The lawsuit is the second of its kind — Facebook sued NSO in 2019 for targeting its WhatsApp users — and another consequential move by a private company to curb invasive spyware by governments and the companies that provide their spy tools.
Apple, for the first time, seeks to hold NSO accountable for what it says was the surveillance and targeting of Apple users. more
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"Sriram Sami, Bangjie Sun, and Sean Rui Xiang Tan, from National University of Singapore, and Jun Han from Yonsei University, describe how this might be done in a paper [PDF] titled "LAPD: Hidden Spy Camera Detection using Smartphone Time-of-Flight Sensors"...
...smartphones are commonplace these days, so adding an app like LAPD is likely to be more convenient than carrying a dedicated bug or signal detector at all times. LAPD's goal is to be accessible, usable, and accurate, and to judge by the results reported in the paper, it hits those marks...
"The 'attackers' have all the power to place hidden cameras anywhere, and the public is, in contrast, generally defenseless," he explained. "That's why we're doing this work, and why we hope hidden camera detection can become more commonplace." Sami said he intends to release the source code for LAPD but has to coordinate that with his colleagues." more
The shutdown dates start in January 2022 and are spread out throughout the year. more
In August, KrebsOnSecurity warned that scammers were contacting people and asking them to unleash ransomware inside their employer's network, in exchange for a percentage of any ransom amount paid by the victim company. This week, authorities in Nigeria arrested a suspect in connection with the scheme -- a young man who said he was trying to save up money to help fund a new social network. more
But thanks to a team at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering, that may soon be a reality. They’ve created a prototype technology capable of seeing around corners and through everything from fog to the human skull. Their results are published in the journal Nature Communications...
“Our technology will usher in a new wave of imaging capabilities,” he said. “Our current sensor prototypes use visible or infrared light, but the principle is universal and could be extended to other wavelengths. For example, the same method could be applied to radio waves for space exploration or underwater acoustic imaging.”...
“It’s like we can plant a virtual computational camera on every remote
surface to see the world from the surface’s perspective,” explained Florian Willomitzer, first author of the study. “This technique turns walls into mirrors.”...
“It can be applied to many areas, and we have only scratched the surface,” he added. more
Just think of the benefits to the CIA...
and eventually the trickle down to corporate espionage types.
"In every attack, the threat actor demonstrates extensive red teaming skills and the ability to bypass traditional antivirus detection using their own custom malware," Group-IB's Ivan Pisarev said.
Active since at least November 2018, the Russian-speaking RedCurl hacking group has been linked to 30 attacks to date with the goal of corporate cyber espionage and document theft aimed at 14 organizations spanning construction, finance, consulting, retail, insurance, and legal sectors and located in the U.K., Germany, Canada, Norway, Russia, and Ukraine. more
Tensions run high between Iran and Israel over Tehran's nuclear programme and what Israeli officials describe as its military entrenchment and support of Israel's enemies in the region.
The Shin Bet said the suspect, who
performed housekeeping and cleaning tasks in Gantz's residence, was
indicted on espionage charges by a court in Lod, a city near Tel Aviv.
It said he was arrested after an investigation earlier this month. more
Rosengart's concern goes beyond money, though. He's also keyed in on the allegation Tri Star had a hand in spying on Britney by placing listening devices in her bedroom, as reported in the most recent NY Times documentary about Brit and the conservatorship.
He claims that reporting is more than enough to warrant Britney's desire to comb through any and all Tri Star docs related to the alleged electronic surveillance. more
Wiretapping Quote of the Week
Six years of wiretapping and this is what the Feds got? Cue Peggy Lee singing “Is that All There Is?"
~ Tom Cardella
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Britain’s biggest retailer of trainers is understood to believe that the meeting between Cowgill and Barry Bown, executive chairman of Footasylum, was filmed by a competitor keen to see JD’s £90 million takeover of its smaller rival blocked by the competition watchdog. more
At age 97, Marjorie Stetson has never told anyone her secret code number — until now.
"She was on the front line of the radio war," said military historian David O'Keefe, who studies Second World War code breaking and signals intelligence...
Stetson used a radio receiver to intercept Japanese army and air
force communications. She used a special typewriter to transcribe the
Japanese codes she heard. Those number-filled documents were sent to
code breakers in the U.S. and sometimes England, said O'Keefe — giving
the Allies an intelligence edge in the Pacific region. more
Australia - A woman who discovered she had been spied on for months by a cybersecurity expert, who was also her friend and housemate, by using a camera hidden in her room had one word that summed up how she felt: humiliated. more
FL - A registered sexual offender was arrested last week after he was accused of using his cellphone to record two students in a restroom at a Duval County high school, authorities said. more
VT - A federal judge has cleared at least part of the way for a plea deal involving a former emergency room doctor at the University of Vermont Medical Center, who ... hid a camera in a staff bathroom while working at the Burlington hospital, investigators said. He was later fired. more
Canada - A former New Glasgow doctor who was charged in 2016 for allegedly putting a hidden camera in a staff washroom at the Westside Medical Clinic, has left the profession. more
UT - A Utah man was arrested for voyeurism after an employee in the University Mall said he was recording people in dressing rooms at a clothing store. more
FL - A University of Central Florida (UCF) student is speaking out, warning others after she said she discovered a spy camera was recording her through her bedroom window. more
CT - A city man with a history of voyeuristic criminal activity was recently arrested for allegedly trying to record a female shopper in a mall changing room earlier this year, according to an arrest warrant. more
WY - Trial Date Set for Sheridan County Man - Kobielusz was arrested in April for allegedly placing video recording devices in a bedroom and bathroom of his home and using the devices to record three individuals, two minors and one adult, without their consent. more
Philippines - Policemen arrested a security guard for allegedly filming a woman while she was taking a shower Sunday evening in San Roque village, Tarlac City. more
WI - A Wisconsin teacher was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of attempting to produce child pornography, reports NBC News. David Krutchen, 39, hid cameras in air fresheners on a field trip. more
FL - A Frontier Airlines pilot has been charged over allegations he recorded a 19-year-old Florida college student with a hidden spy camera hidden in her apartment, university police said. more
Japan - Kyoto Prefectural Police have launched an initiative to show a non-skippable video ad on YouTube warning that "secret filming is a crime," targeting users who have searched for terms seemingly related to voyeurism. more
MA - Amazon driver in blonde wig filmed naked girls in women's bathroom with pen camera, police say. more
CT - Detectives investigating a child pornography tip discovered photographs of young female students apparently taken without their knowledge by a Rockville High School teacher, arrest records show. more
IN - Schneider remains on unpaid suspension from the New Albany Police Department. He was arrested in June on charges of voyeurism. Investigators said he used his smartphone to record video of women changing in a dressing room at his Memphis, Indiana, home. more
Canada - A personal support worker charged with voyeurism at a long-term care home in Guelph/Eramosa is no longer an employee after being accused of taking intimate images of a vulnerable resident. more
Singapore - A South Korean man who had served as an interpreter for the Singapore Police Force (SPF) during the Trump-Kim Summit here in 2018, was caught in February this year using a pinhole camera to take videos of women using a toilet. more
LA - Man admits to taking 19 upskirt videos in College Drive Walmart more
WA - A former Arlington Christian School teacher who admitted to shooting hundreds of videos of female staff members and students without their permission will not see any more time in jail. more
WY - Lander resident Dudley Irvine pled “not guilty” to a charge of attempted voyeurism at his September 28th arraignment hearing... The charge was originally filed after a gym member reported to the Lander Police Department that she had found a “covert recording device that was plugged into an electrical outlet facing the shower within the women’s locker room.” more
India - Hinjewadi police have booked a voyeurism case against the chairperson, secretary and treasurer of a housing society in Hinjewadi-Wakad road on charges of voyeurism. The accused have been charged for installing CCTV camera near the bedroom window of the woman resident and recording her private life for almost one month. more
Hong Kong - (new law) People who take non-consensual photographs up a woman’s skirt face up to five years in jail in Hong Kong under a law passed Thursday aimed at tackling voyeurism. more
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With its decision, the Colorado Supreme Court widens a growing split
on the constitutionality of long-term pole camera surveillance. The
Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, as well as the South Dakota Supreme
Court, have both ruled against warrantless surveillance, while the
Sixth and Seventh have ruled the opposite. more
The engineer, Jonathan Toebbe, was accused of trying to sell information on the nuclear propulsion system of Virginia-class attack submarines — the technology at the heart of a recent deal that the United States and Britain struck with Australia...
Over a series of exchanges, the F.B.I. persuaded the sender to leave information at a dead drop in return for cryptocurrency payments. The F.B.I. then observed Mr. Toebbe and his wife, Diana Toebbe, at the location of the drop, in West Virginia.
With
Ms. Toebbe acting as a lookout, Mr. Toebbe left an SD card concealed
inside half a peanut butter sandwich in a plastic bag, according to the
court documents. After the undercover agent retrieved the sandwich, Mr.
Toebbe was sent $20,000. more