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FutureWatch - Video Surveillance Predictions
It is really not too hard to predict the future of CCTV. The future is here... 2010 - The end of the "Video Wall""Clean and green," is coming to the security center Situational Awareness Center. Video analytics is the brain in the box catalyst o...
SkyGrabber Snags Drone Feeds
Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. (more)FutureWatch - This will be fixed...
First Came the Annoying Cell Phone\'er
Then came the cell phone detector. Then came the cell phone jammer. Then came the cell phone jammer detector?!?! "What next?"...
The Future of GSM Digital Cell Phone Taps
If you're still using a cellphone based on early digital standards, you better be careful what you say. The encryption technology used to prevent eavesdropping in GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), the world's most widely used cellphone s...
More Powerful than a Santa Claus GPS
USA - One phone company "provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009." How did they do it? Automation... "a new, special web portal for law enforcement...
Jackie Chan - The Spy Next Door
Coming January 15, 2010.(trailers)...
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...
New Eyes for Spies
Prototype contact lenses developed by Babak Parviz at the University of Washington, in Seattle. Dr. Parviz’s prototype lenses can be used as biosensors to display body chemistry or as a heads up display (HUD). Powered by radio waves and 330 microwa...
S.E.C. Enforcement Chief: ‘Creative Investigation Techniques’ Coming
The use of wiretaps and recordings of conversations to help underpin the insider trading case against the Galleon Group hedge fund struck legal experts as unusual, for an investigation involving the Securities and Exchange Commission.“It is unusual...
Warning: industrial espionage on the rise
Denmark - Companies are being warned by both an industry organisation and the national intelligence agency that industrial spies are ever present.Jakob Scharf, head of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET), recently warned that industria...
UK - Universal Knowledge?
UK - The British government has decided to go ahead with its plans under what it calls the Intercept Modernisation Programme to force every telecommunication company and Internet service provider to keep a record of all of its customers' personal com...
"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 ...
Wireless Network Signals Produce See-Through Walls
Researchers at the University of Utah have found a way to see through walls to detect movement inside a building.The surveillance technique is called variance-based radio tomographic imaging and works by visualizing variations in radio waves as they ...
Paint Your "See-Through" Walls?
Researchers (University of Tokyo) say they have created a special kind of paint which can block out wireless signals. It means security-conscious wireless users could block their neighbours from being able to access their home network - without havin...
SpyText - Bringing vicarious to new heights
Remember... Watch CCTV. Report Crime. Win a Prize!No prize, but just as weird...Everyday Texts,where you eavesdrop on people's text messages....
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...
Alert: Low-Cost GSM Bugs Flood Ebay
GSM bugs are simply tiny cell phones without keypads. Insert a SIM card, hide it, call its phone number and eavesdrop from anywhere in the world.The lowest cost we've seen is 99 cents, plus $21.99 shipping.This is a major development in illegal elect...
SpyCam Story #558 - Missed Fujimori Post
Philippines - The Valenzuela city government will implement two ordinances next month that would regulate liquor businesses and requiring all establishments to install spy cameras within their premises. (more)FutureWatch...The beginning of a trend? L...
Your Future Third (4th or 5th) Eye
Miruko is a camera robot in the shape of an eyeball capable of tracking objects and faces. According to its creators, it can be used for augmented reality games, security, and navigation. (more) (movie)...
Business Espionage - Nintendo
Nintendo fan site Nintendojo has reported it did some eavesdropping on a conference call between Nintendo and some big name retailers, where it confirmed there would be a $50 price cut starting from 27 September. (more)How secure are your conference ...
A Short History of Wiretapping and Ramifications
Communications Surveillance: Privacy and Security at Risk AS THE SOPHISTICATION OF WIRETAPPING TECHNOLOGY GROWS, SO TOO DO THE RISKS IT POSES TO OUR PRIVACY AND SECURITY. We all know the scene: It is the basement of an apartment building and the ligh...
Posted code enables VoIP spying
Along with keyloggers that track what you type, now we have to worry about malicious software that listens in on our voice over Internet Protocol conversations. A Symantec security blog disclosed a new Trojan horse, Tojan.Peskyspy "that records VoIP ...
FutureWatch - SenseCam, your auto diary
SenseCam is a wearable digital camera that is designed to take photographs passively, without user intervention, while it is being worn.Unlike a regular digital camera or a cameraphone, SenseCam does not have a viewfinder or a display that can be use...
How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade
From a Silicon Valley office strewn with bean-bag chairs, a group of twenty-something software engineers is building an unlikely following of terrorist hunters at U.S. spy agencies.One of the latest entrants into the government spy-services marketpla...
Business Espionage - Once A Discreet Craft
Now, it is just blatant.via netprofitbuzz.comFight back....
"Who is Number One?"
NV - You might have noticed an unuusal sight if you passed by the Reno-Stead Airport recently. The giant white sphere has generated quite a few calls to our newsroom.So what is it ? It turns out its a prototype airship being developed by a private c...
Meanwhile, back in Washington...
A proposed plan to reorganize the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) IT Laboratory would close the Computer Security Division and distribute its resources and functions throughout the lab, despite objections from former of...
Security Director Alert - 911Headcount
True security innovations don't show up every day. Locks are still locks. Alarms are still alarms. You get the idea. Models, designs and features change, but functions remain the same.Here is truly innovative and useful idea... a system that can quic...
The Un-Welcome Mat
Coming this Fall (in Japan)...The Un-Welcome Mator, as we call it around here, Kevin's Home Alone Safety Zone Burglar Atone and Drop Zone. It is a giant sticky mat! Strategically place them at your portals when you leave. Stuck like a bug in a rug, y...
"He kicked me around, tried to drown me, burned me, and now he wants to swap me!"
Apple says it has had enough of giving people replacement iPhones and iPods when, in their view, it is the consumer who has abused the gadget and rendered it inoperable.So today the firm has filed a patent on a kind of spy system that sits inside gad...
