Apps are reading your texts and emails and even looking at your pictures..

dailymail.com The small print included with many mobile phone apps is giving their developers the right to rifle through users’ phone books, text messages and emails.By agreeing to little-read terms and conditions documents, phone users are giving developers the right to inspect their personal information and even find out who they are talking to. In [...]

Smartphone security gap exposes location, texts, email, expert says

latimes.comJust as U.S. companies are coming to grips with the threats to their computer networks emanating from cyber spies based in China, a noted expert is highlighting what he says is an even more pernicious vulnerability in smartphones. Dmitri Alperovitch, the former McAfee cyber security researcher who is best known for identifying a widespread China-based [...]

IT and espionage on Wall Street

economist.com An overturned conviction creates uncertainty about what constitutes a crime ASK a programmer at an investment bank where he works, and the answer will often simply be “Wall Street”. Isolated from clients and—it was once thought—assets with proprietary value, technologists bounce from firm to firm, from one high-rise building to another. To this footloose [...]

COMSEC AUDIO JAMMER APP for iPHONE

itunes.apple.com COMSEC AUDIO JAMMERKeep your private conversations private!The COMSEC AUDIO JAMMER protects your sensitive room conversations by generating a random masking sound, which desensitizes any near-by microphone. Effective against any microphone based eavesdropping device including tape recorders, RF transmitters, hard-wired microphones (including contact type) and shotgun microphones. It also protects against microwave or laser reflection [...]

Securing Corporate Data in a Law Office’s Computer Network

Note: An excellent article, and a serious subject… When is the last time your law firm had a Cyber TSCM sweep? Ever? Contact me, I can help. ~JDL law.com The dramatic rise in electronic economic espionage against U.S. corporations came into full view with a report on the trend issued by the U.S. government last November. [...]

Chinese Telecoms May Be Spying on Large Numbers of Foreign Customers

theatlantic.comA U.S. Congressional probe is investigating whether China’s state-linked firms, which built much of the communications infrastructure in several Asian countries, is using its access for snooping. Two Chinese telecommunications giants are under scrutiny by a US congressional committee. The outcome of the probe could have revealing implications for Central Asian states, which have used [...]

Texas constable admits ordering bugging

chron.com DALLAS (AP) — A small-town Texas constable told the FBI he secretly bugged other officials’ offices after they were accused of illegally forcing motorists to forfeit their cash, according to a search warrant affidavit. The affidavit, based on interviews conducted by FBI agents and Texas Rangers, quotes Shelby CountyConstable Fred Walker as saying he authorized the installation [...]

Caught spying

thestandard.com.hk Bosses are being warned about breaking the law by using hidden miniature cameras to spy on staff. For the use of “pinhole” cameras is in sharp focus after Privacy Commissioner Allan Chiang Yam-wang took a subsidiary of Sun Hung Kai Properties to task for snooping. Chiang found after an investigation that management subsidiary Hong [...]

Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery

Note: Having recently traveled to China, I can attest to Mr. Lieberthal’s concerns….Do yourself (and your company) a favor, Just accept the fact that you “will” be collected against…and take Mr. Lieberthal’s advice…very seriously.  JDL nytimes.com SAN FRANCISCO — When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he [...]

The reality of digital espionage and defending against it

fiercecio.com The New York Times has an article that talked about the reality of digital espionage and spying conducted against companies and government officials in the United States. As was widely reported late last year, things came to a head when Chinese hackers succeeded in infiltrating the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, siphoning at least six weeks’ worth of [...]