Archive for the ‘counter surveillance’ Category

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 [...]

philstar.com MEXICO CITY (AP) — A search of several Mexican lawmakers’ offices turned up recording equipment, leading legislators to believe they have been spied on for years, a congressman said Wednesday.Congressman Armando Rios said security personnel found microphones and other devices that seemed to have been installed years ago. “Some of the equipment has newer [...]

St. Louis, Missouri (PRWEB) November 03, 2011 SpearTip, LLC CEO Jarrett Kolthoff announced that SpearTip has formed a strategic alliance with ComSec, LLC, of Virginia Beach, VA, which provides professional technical surveillance counter measure (TSCM) services nationwide. ComSec’s expertise includes electronic eavesdropping detection, bug sweeps, counterespionage consulting, counter surveillance, cyber TSCM, and anti-surveillance services for businesses and individuals. Kolthoff [...]

nydailynews.com Social media company admits to massive lapse in security Facebook accounts are hacked 600,000 times daily during users’ log-in, the social networking site conceded this week. The Internet powerhouse said that it records more than 1 billion log-ons each day, and that .06% of those log-ons are compromised. The shocking lapse in security was [...]

israelnewsagency.com Jerusalem, Israel — October 26, 2011 …. On October 24th the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court in Israel convicted far-right activist Avigdor Eskin of ordering the illegal wiretapping of associates of Israel businessman and philanthropist Michael Cherney (Mikhail Chernoy). The plea bargain consists of a penalty of six months of community service, probation and a fine [...]

wired The nation’s major mobile-phone providers are keeping a treasure trove of sensitive data on their customers, according to newly-released Justice Department internal memo that for the first time reveals the data retention policies of America’s largest telecoms. The single-page Department of Justice document, “Retention Periods of Major Cellular Service Providers,” (.pdf) is a guide [...]

wired A legal challenge questioning the constitutionality of a federal law authorizing warrantless electronic surveillance of Americans inched a step closer Wednesday toward resolution. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, for the second time, rejected the Obama administration’s contention that it should toss a lawsuit challenging the 2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act. Among [...]

(AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — Like its predecessor, the Obama administration says it cannot count how many people in the U.S. have had their telephone calls and emails monitored by government agents in national security investigations under federal surveillance law. The national intelligence office said in a letter this week to two Senate Democrats that it [...]

>bbc.co.uk Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s parliamentary computer and those of at least two senior ministers are suspected of being hacked, according to a newspaper report. The government was alerted to the security breach by a US intelligence tip-off, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph said. It is reported that several thousand emails may have been accessed from [...]

>kfvs12.com MALDEN, MO (KFVS) – Investigators carried out boxes of surveillance video, porn, and child porn from a Malden man’s home and business Monday morning. Malden Police Chief Jarrett Bullock says this is the largest child porn bust in Malden’s history and possibly in the state of the Missouri. Joseph Layland Jr., 36 faces 10 [...]