Electronic espionage first gained attention as a threat against governments and large companies. Recent news stories about everyday digital spying by individuals uncover the growing need for Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) among all sorts of people,...
Espionage is a very real threat in the business world. Everyone wants to know the competition’s trade secrets. But this kind of espionage comes at a cost. For Pegasystems, that cost was $2.036 billion. In the case of Appian v. Pegasystems, the jury ruled in...
The Desensitization of “Accept” In the pre-digital age, people who engaged in espionage took big risks and had to conceal the much-larger tech of the day in order to do their jobs. These people, if caught, could face years in prison, hanging, or a firing squad. Today,...
It’s the 21st century. Almost everyone now has access to high-quality cameras and Wi-Fi. This means it’s easier than ever to take videos and pictures of people without them knowing. And while most people use this technology for good, there are always those...
Big brands — Google and Uber, for instance — are always looking to one-up each another. Sometimes this takes the form of trying to hire away each other’s employees, and sometimes it manifests as something more malicious: espionage. What happened in the Google...
Devices that can be used for eavesdropping have literally been around for centuries. Even before audio could be recorded and played back later, it could be listened to remotely. This type of technology has evolved in a number of ways over the years, all of which are...
Moscows Trojan Horse The US government is one of the most secure governing bodies today. However, that doesn’t mean they aren’t susceptible to surveillance attacks. In fact, the opposite is true. The US government is under constant surveillance by other...
Nortel, the former Canadian telecom giant, first filed for bankruptcy in January of 2009. By June, the company announced that it planned to sell off all business units and would not attempt to return to operations. During that time period, analysts tended to blame...
