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19 December 2008

WhiteRock is proud to present the all new Winter editon of WhiteNews 2008.
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In this issue:

  • WhiteRock 2.0: The Latest Developments in the World of WhiteRock
  • Credit Crunch Latest: The Economic Downturn Sparks Increase in Corporate Espionage
  • Internal News: WhiteRock Achieves Top Marks in 'Investors in People' Award Renewal
  • Technology: Whiterock's Exclusive Use of FLIR Thermal Imaging
  • Threats: New CSI Stick Can Capture All Your Mobile Phone Data
  • Letter From America: The GSM Bug Plague
  • Plus: More News, Technologies, Threats and Statistics

16 May 2007

Welcome to the May edition of Whiterock's 2007 WhiteNews.
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In this issue:

  • CEO Sweeps & Comments: Top 10 Corporate Espionage Cases
  • City Firm Discovers TSCM at Whiterock
  • Private Investigator Paid To Spy on Jimmy Choo Owner
  • Baby Monitor, Your Simplest and Cheapest Bug
  • Plus: Newsbites: UK & World

Watch: 'Is Your Cell Phone Bugged?' at YouTube

10 April 2007

Welcome to the April edition of Whiterock's 2007 WhiteNews.
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In this issue:

  • CEO Sweeps & Comments
  • Telecoms' Security Fault Enabled Eavesdropping
  • China & Russia News
  • Espionage Laws Globally
  • Plus: UK & World Newsbites

13 March 2007

Welcome to the March edition of Whiterock's 2007 WhiteNews.
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In this issue:

  • CEO Focus: Masons Hit By Bugging
  • Whiterock Becomes The First MLA Approved TSCM Company
  • Authorised Surveillance
  • Secure Shredding
  • TSCM Policy To Tackle Internal Threat
  • Bugging in Relationships
  • Plus: Newsbytes At A Glance

9 February 2007

Welcome to Whiterock's 2nd edition of WhiteNews in 2007!
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In this issue:

  • CEO Focus: 80% Of Threat Is Internal
  • Ex-Employee Undercut Boss By Bugging Him
  • Bugging In Politics
  • Updates: Royal Phone Bugging Scam
  • Plus: Newsbytes At A Glance

19 January 2007

Welcome to Whiterock's first WhiteNews of 2007!
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In this issue:

  • Foreword and Focus by Whiterock's CEO, Crispin Sturrock
  • Commercial Espionage Is A Commercial Reality
  • Employees Are Company's Vulnerability
  • Casino Lost Thousands
  • FBI Uses Mobiles To Eavesdrop On Suspects

18 December 2006

Greek Government phone bug scandal.

In April 2006, WhiteNews reported that the Greek parliament had been subject to phone-tapping. It has now been reported that Vodafone has been fined £51 million by the Greek privacy watchdog.

The Greek agency responsible for privacy said Vodafone had failed to protect its network from hackers who monitored 106 mobile accounts. The accounts targeted included those of Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis as well as senior military officers, journalists and human rights activists. The illegal monitoring took place during the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

The chief executive of Ericsson's Australian division could be summoned to Greece to give evidence at an inquiry into how the phone calls of 106 people were illegally bugged in the lead-up to the Athens Olympics.

Bill Zikou was chief executive of Ericsson in Greece when the illegal taps occurred between June 2004 and March 2005 but left in June 2006 to run the telecommunications network builder's Australian operations.

In March, Mr Zikou told Greece's parliament that Ericsson had installed bugging software on the Vodafone network to allow legal eavesdropping by Greek government agencies, but that the software had been secretly exploited.

Vodafone insists it was never told that Ericsson had installed the bugging software. Mr Zikou, however, told the Greek parliament that Vodafone was given "full details and informative documents" about it.

Ericsson built Telstra's national Next G wireless broadband and telephone network earlier this year.

While Telstra would not say if similar legal bugging software had been installed on Next G, legislation passed earlier this year enhanced the ability for police and government agencies to access mobile phone conversations, text messages and voicemail.

Full story from the BBC News website.

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Met tapped senior officer's calls

10 December 2006

"Met's internal tapping into their staff was unlawful."
Investigatory Powers Tribunal

The Metropolitan Police unlawfully tapped phone calls of one of their own senior officers, Chief Superintendent Ali Dizaei, legal adviser to the National Black Police Association (NBPA).

The interception was ruled unlawful by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. This was an investigation into Mr Dizaei, who was under suspicion of being corrupt. He was cleared of all charges brought against him.

The NPBA said the tapping included calls when Mr Dizaei gave advice to black and Asian colleagues in dispute with their own forces. It said Mr Dizaei's calls were tapped during Operation Helios, in which the Met recorded 3,500 private conversations. NBPA brought the wire tap complaints because they felt that some calls were legally privileged.

Full story from the BBC News website.

The Spies Among Us

7 December 2006

"Corporate espionage is not a legal means to compete with rivals."
Boston Business Journal

Wallack, Todd Companies' efforts to collect intelligence on their competitors span a wide range of activities, often as simple as calling an employee at a competing company and asking for product information, department data, and information on colleagues' duties. However, competitive intelligence providers note that corporate espionage, a technique using deception or theft to obtain information about companies and products, is not a legal means of maintaining a competitive advantage over rivals.

Full story from the Boston Business Journal.

Espionage alert to Bahrain firms

5 December 2006

"Espionage occurs on a daily basis and most of us don't even know it."
Mr Richard Clark at the ASIS International Conference in Middle East.

Industrial espionage and organised crime are the biggest threats facing companies in Bahrain and the Middle East, said a former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clark, who served as a senior White House adviser for current President George W Bush and his two predecessors.

Corporations are concentrating their efforts on evading terrorism, instead of tackling more immediate dangers, says the veteran, with more than 30 years of experience in the field.

Acts of industrial espionage are becoming easier and are often perpetrated by disgruntled employees aiming to cause damage, or for profit by selling company secrets, said Mr Clark.

"It used to be that to do industrial espionage your competitor had to come to your company and somehow break in and steal your information," he said. "Today it occurs on a daily basis and most of us don't even know it is occurring in our company.

"It takes our corporate jewels - the formula for pharmaceuticals, the formula for chemicals, the price lists that you use to charge your customers and your list of customers.

Full story from the Gulf Daily News.

Bugging case leads to calls for tougher privacy laws

30 November 2006

"Tapping into mobile phones is a serious matter."
Mr Justice Goss in the Clive Goodman case

A reporter for Britain's top selling tabloid newspaper pleaded guilty to tapping into the mobile phones of the aides of the Prince Wales and his son, Prince William. Clive Goodman, the News of the World royal editor was caught telephoning the mobiles of the royal family, waiting for the voicemail and punch in the security code.

Goodman, 48, faces up to two years in jail for conspiracy to intercept communications contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977. Mr Justice Goss agreed to remand him on unconditional bail for pre-sentence reports but he warned: "I am not ruling out any options. It's a very serious matter."

Full story from the Guardian.

"Corporate and government security professionals met in NYC to discuss counter terrorist solutions in capital cities"

30 November 2006

"Industrial espionage is now used as one of the intelligence gathering tools for the purposes of terrorism."
Dave Evans at the Global Aware International Counter Terrorism Conference.

Global Aware International and HSBC held a Counter Terrorism Conference in New York at the end of last month. The issues discussed at the Conference included current methods of attack, home made explosives, motor vehicle IED and suicide bombers, coercion and hostile reconnaissance, detection search dogs and business solutions.

It was stressed that industrial espionage is now used as one of the intelligence gathering tools for the purposes of terrorism.

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See also: www.globalaware.co.uk.

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Recent Press Articles

Adobe Acrobat Document versions of recent press articles.

Adobe Acrobat logo 2006 October - FourFourTwo [Football's biggest stars are under surveillance and they don't even know it - from phone taps and secret cameras, media snoops and would-be kidnappers. Has your club's dressing-room been bugged?]

Adobe Acrobat logo 2006 July - Security Management Today [The Internet has proven a rich picking ground for criminals who want to 'bug and steal'. Crispin Sturrock examines the scale of the espionage problem, and outlines various developments which are looking to safeguard the future for commercial concerns.]

In previous WhiteNews issues…

11th October 2006
The walls have ears - the Friday 6th October, Evening Standard magazine reports of 'an epidemic in eavesdropping throughout London'. Read more »

9th October 2006
Former Deutsche Börse Chief Executive's apartment bugged. Read more »

27th September 2006
Telephone bugging evidence could soon to be used in UK courts whilst Italy is reeling from a massive wiretapping scandal. Read more »

18th September 2006
BBC Radio Five Live programme discusses 'Bugging' - Covert Surveillance. Read more »

14th September 2006
Foul play as bug found hidden in Mourinho's favourite restaurant. Read more »

12th September 2006
Bugging The Boardroom. Read more »

6th September 2006
Football Stars under surveillance. Read more »

18th August 2006
Royal Phone Tapping Scandal [2] Read more »

16th August 2006
University of Pennsylvania Research 'JitterBugs' Could Turn Your Keyboard Against You. Read more »

9th August 2006
Royal Phone Tapping Scandal [1] Read more »

4th August 2006
Infinity Transmitters - a growing risk. Read more »

20th July 2006
"Yo Blair!" - We've all done it - held a conversation we assumed was private only to discover that someone was listening in. Read more »

9th July 2006
"Through the pinhole" [SMT Magazine article]; Conversation between Sir Paul McCartney and daughter Stella bugged. Read more »

25th June 2006
The England rugby team hired corporate spies when they stormed to victory at the Rugby World Cup in Australia in 2003 [The Sunday Times article]; Whiterock announce reciprocal services alliance with Murray Associates; Whiterock announce partnership with Audiotel International and the launch of WhiteRoom. Read more »

2nd June 2006
"Industrial Espionage Made Easy" [Financial Times article]; Are your private and confidential telephone conversations being intercepted and recorded? Read more »