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McDonald\'s... "Over 4 Million Stolen"
Australia - Two men are being extradited to Perth to face charges of stealing more than $4 million from customers at fast food outlets in what police say is Australia's biggest-ever EFTPOS card skimming operation...Officer-in-charge of the major frau...
SpyCam Story #564 - Hokey may go to Pokey
Spain - The owner of a wedding venue and disco in Cazorla (Jaén) has been arrested after police discovered spy cams he had installed in the women's toilets.C.D.M.V. (30), a local resident of Cazorla and owner of El Clan, a popular local disco and re...
Spybusters Tip # 361 - Free Encryped Web Page
Problem: How do you easily send someone a password, confidential list of contacts, bank account information or other confidential data? Solution: norbt.com, a free service which creates an encrypted page on the Web for your sensitive message. All yo...
Christmas Gift List from Weburbanist.com
"15 Cool Hi-tech Spy Gadgets, Oh Wait…Creepy Gifts for Stalkers?"(more)Nothing new. The usual spy gadgets we warn you about all year....
SpyCam Story #563 - Fed Up
PA - An FBI security officer who videotaped teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event has been convicted of invasion of privacy.Thirty-five-year-old Charles Brian Hommema of Buckhannon was sentenced Wednesday to six m...
Wiretapping a Video Teleconference
John Kindervag discusses video teleconferencing wiretapping..."Now while this technology has some real business value there are also inherent security flaws in video conferencing systems running across a corporate network. Because these internal netw...
Supper Club Sale Reveals Owner\'s Bugs
Clarence Hartwig's Gobbler Supper Club, icon of Wisconsin, is heading for auction..."Whoever buys the building will also get a few dozen gold-colored listening devices that were installed throughout the facility by Hartwig so he could eavesdrop on hi...
Take Written Notes Next Time
NH - Anthony De La Pena, 37, of 668 Raymond St., Elgin, was arrested Monday on charges of felony eavesdropping and misdemeanor charges of obstructing and resisting a peace officer. De La Pena on Sunday allegedly recorded a verbal exchange between him...
A "Move on" turns into an Eavesdropping Arrest
IL - A Rogers Park neighborhood man was charged with felony eavesdropping after allegedly taping conversations -- including the voices of officers who arrested him -- without permission while selling art for a $1 Wednesday afternoon in the Loop. (m...
Like Grand Theft Auto?
Some Twin Falls teenagers are promising to pay attention to the road. And if the preservation of life isn’t enough of an incentive, they can also win video games...Enrollment in the program provides parents with a high-tech method of conducting cov...
SpyCam Story #562 - The play is the thing.
Australia - A former drama teacher at a Melbourne girls school has been accused of installing a spy camera to capture students undressing and making child pornography. Mark Stratford, 49, was employed as director of drama at Lauriston Girls School wh...
"Every-body wants to get into the act."
via makeuseof.com... Make 4 Cool Spy Gadgets With Your Windows Mobile Phone... Have you ever wanted to live like a real spy, even for just a little while? Just to help you inch just a little bit closer to that cloak and dagger lifestyle, I’d like t...
Mobile Phone Bug Allows Wiretapping
Fact or Netmyth?You decide.Report back.SummaryErricson's WAP, Wireless Application Protocol, suffers from a security flaw that allows attackers to listen into other WAP sessions traveling on the cellular carrier wave.DetailsErricson Mobile Phone allo...
iPhone Bug Directions Published on Net
As if we didn't have enough evesdropping and wiretap problems to worry about, now this headline... Turn your iPhone into a bugging device!7 Steps to turn your iPhone into a bugging device and then listen in over Wi-Fi.Step 1) Open the free Blue FiRe...
Tech gadgets help corporate spying surge in tough times
via USA Today...Corporate espionage using very simple tactics — much of it carried out by trusted insiders, familiar business acquaintances, even janitors — is surging. That's because businesses large and small are collecting and storing more dat...
New Pocket Eavesdropping Device
Product Notes..."Works on wooden walls, doors, windows, steel plates, etc. Highly Sensitive, carefully adjust audio slowly, as not to cause discomfort to your ear-buds. This product is being sold as an investigative tools for law enforcement or licen...
Spokesman Resigns Over Secret Phone Recordings
CA - Scott Gerber, the communications director for Attorney General Jerry Brown who admitted recording phone conversations with reporters without their permission --- including Chronicle senior political writer Carla Marinucci -- resigned Monday. (mo...
You\'re not crazy... "The thought would not have occurred to you if everything were fine."
People are often ashamed, scared or afraid of being called paranoid when they suspect eavesdropping or wiretapping. In most cases, something is wrong. The information leaks and subsequent feedback may not always be caused by a bug or wiretap, but som...
Spyware Goes Legit
Australia - Distributors for new software that allows parents to spy on their children's text messages say they are still hopeful, as they try to get approval for their product.The software, which allows parents to see every text message their child ...
Spyware fine, $476. Getting X\'s e-mails, priceless.
WI - An Appleton man charged with installing spyware on his ex-wife's computer was fined after he entered into a plea agreement on a lesser charge.Brent J. Walbrun, 47, W3291 Hartland Court, originally was charged with interception of an electronic c...
Ice Pick is New Car Key for Burglars
(Reports coming in from GA, MA, and IL)...The unknown sharp object penetrates the door metal, hits the lock mechanism and disengages it. The burglar or burglars slip inside the vehicle without having to break a window or otherwise heavily damage the ...
The Chevron Secret Recordings Case Continues
An American whose secret recordings have placed him at the center of a $27 billion lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador is a convicted drug trafficker, records show, throwing another complication into a case already tainted by accusations of bribery an...
One More Good Reason to Lock USB Ports
The new Devil Drive elevates the office prank to a new level of sophistication and maddening effectiveness. It looks like a regular USB thumb drive, but it's actually a devious device of electronic harassment. Its use should be strictly limited to de...
Winner: Can Film Festival - Surveillance Category
"Sometimes, I just don\'t want them to know it\'s me calling."
NY - Blond society babe Ali Wise -- the fired publicity director for Dolce & Gabbana -- was slapped with four felonies yesterday for allegedly making a compulsive, vindictive leap from flacking to hacking. The ferocious fashionista embarked on a...
"Record your life" meme gaining altitude
Yet another "record your life" tool...uCorder by iResSpy cameras have been with us for over 100 years; mostly used offensively to spy, sometimes used to inoffensively document life without intrusion-disruption.Times are changing. Today, everyone has ...
SpyCam Story #560 - Holiday Inn Outted
Wales - A woman has told a jury how her former partner set up a secret camera system to spy on holidaymakers staying at their rental cottage. Teresa Crick said David Sturgess, 53, hid four cameras in fake smoke alarms to film guests undressing, showe...
Wild West - No SpyCam Law in Colorado
CO - When it was discovered that a man had installed a hidden camera in a Denver Tech Center hotel room to watch the people staying next door, the only legal option for prosecutors was an audio surveillance law.Because Colorado law has not kept up wi...
Watch CCTV. Report Crime. Win a Prize!
FutureWatch (Coming Nov. 2009)Watch this trend expand.Next stop, prison cameras?UK - Internet Eyes is an online instant event notification system. Viewers (in the EU for now) are able to monitor live video feed from our Customers and notify them; the...
Just Another Eavesdropper Dropped
FL - A Glen Ellyn man has been charged with eavesdropping and criminal usury, which is lending money at exorbitantly high interest rates. Both charges against Steven Cooper, 47, also known as Moustafa Abed Elsalam Elturky, are considered Class 4 felo...
