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Posted on 05/11/12, filed under News | No Comments
Australian actress Melissa George met with a surveillance equipment expert in order to prepare for her role as a spy in new TV series, Hunted. George plays a spy named Sam in the highly-anticipated series, and decided to research her role by taking lessons from a real-life secret agent – one who wouldn’t even reveal [...]
Posted on 03/11/12, filed under Spy Equipment | No Comments
Hidden spy cameras can be used in a wide variety of both indoor and outdoor environments – and all without even raising an eyebrow! Nowadays, spy cameras are so hi-tech that you could be staring into the lens of a hidden camera without realising it (see last week’s blog about the loo pervert if you [...]
Posted on 01/11/12, filed under News | No Comments
Diaries have revealed that infamous Cold War spy Klaus Fuchs was instructed to throw a magazine into a London garden to set up a rendezvous with his Russian contact. Fuchs, a nuclear physicist who was one of the Soviet Union’s most valuable spies before being jailed back in 1950, had to mark page ten of [...]
Posted on 30/10/12, filed under Spy Equipment | No Comments
We are constantly being told that in a world which relies heavily on the Internet and wireless communication, we are very vulnerable to cyber spy technology attacks. These warnings are certainly not unwarranted, given the rising number of cyber crime recorded – ranging from destructive viruses to super-intelligent spyware. But what about the flip-side to [...]
Posted on 28/10/12, filed under News | No Comments
After the Super Puma sea ditch earlier this week, crews working in the North Sea oil and gas industry were left severely disrupted as all operators grounded their fleets of Super Puma aircraft. CHC Helicopters – the company that owns the helicopter which was involved in the rescue of two pilots and 17 oilmen off [...]
Posted on 26/10/12, filed under News | No Comments
A factory boss has been jailed for six months this week after he used a stylish writing pen camera recorder to film female employees as they used the toilet. Convicted Lee Price bought the device in order to secretly watch and film his young female members of staff as they used the loo at the Odeon [...]
Posted on 24/10/12, filed under News | No Comments
Dyson has discovered that a spy from Bosch has been working in its high-security inventing department! The British engineering group claims that a rogue employee, working for the German competitor in its digital motors facility, was feeding company secrets back to Bosch divisions in both the UK and in Germany for more than two years. [...]
Posted on 22/10/12, filed under Spy Equipment | No Comments
The very latest mobile phones don’t come cheap – especially Smart Phones such as Blackberrys and iPhones. The awesome features of Smart Phones make them a prime target for thieves who are looking to take what is yours and selfishly benefit themselves. But you can protect yourself and your mobile, through the use of spy [...]
Posted on 20/10/12, filed under News | No Comments
A 44-year-old former Navy SEAL commando – together with two of the world’s most renowned cryptographers – have launched a surveillance equipment resistant communications platform. After more than two years of preparation, Silent Circle has now hit the market. So what is it exactly? Well, its a series of applications that can be used on [...]
Posted on 19/10/12, filed under News | No Comments
Britain’s top intelligence agencies are set to recruit apprentice ‘cyber spies’ in an effort to harness the talents of the younger generations. Up to 100 18-year-old spy-wannabes will be given the amazing chance to train for a career in the secret services, where their job description will be to counter the threat of cyber warfare [...]
Posted on 16/10/12, filed under News | No Comments
The captain of the doomed Costa Concordia ordered his crew to turn the crippled ship one way, while his second-in-command ordered them to steer the ship in the opposite direction, a voice recorder has now revealed. In the frantic moments after the ship hit rocks off the Italian island of Giglio, Captain Francesco Schettino was [...]
Posted on 14/10/12, filed under News | No Comments
NASA have just been given a pair of space telescopes which are each as large as the Hubble observatory! The massive telescopes were designed by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), a secretive intelligence spy agency, to peer down on sites in the Middle East and former Soviet Union. However, the project has since been cancelled [...]
Posted on 12/10/12, filed under Spy Equipment | No Comments
If you have a business which demands that your communications are secure at all times, you need to make sure that all of your phone calls remain private and confidential. These days, it is easier than ever for someone to be able to tap into your phone calls – you only have to remember the [...]
Posted on 10/10/12, filed under Spy Equipment | No Comments
Voice recorders have many uses – from recording meeting notes to catching out a cheating spouse! But here are a few other ideas that you might not have considered for voice recorders… Audition for the X Factor! You can’t hear yourself sing – fact. It’s why some karaoke singers think they are the next Adele [...]
Posted on 08/10/12, filed under Spy Equipment | No Comments
A lot of people have their suspicions that something might not be quite right in their relationship. It is those negative thoughts and feeling which can quickly take over your entire life and make you so paranoid that you think you might actually be crazy. If you find yourself in a relationship where the levels [...]
Posted on 06/10/12, filed under News | No Comments
Spy Equipment in Norfolk has hit the headlines after a voyeur used a hidden camera to spy on a woman undressing. Voyeur Kevin Musk, aged 57, has been warned that he faces a jail term after his victim discovered a micro camera recorder planted to record her undressing and showering in her own home. Musk [...]
Posted on 04/10/12, filed under News | No Comments
Crash investigators have now discovered the black box voice recorder from the doomed Nepalese air crash last week. From the data recovered, it has been concluded that technical problems caused the tragic crash which claimed nineteen lives – including seven Britons on board. Crash investigators believe that when the pilots of the Dornier aircraft became [...]
Posted on 02/10/12, filed under News | No Comments
A Garda station spy has been arrested and is due to appear before a special Dublin court this week accused of spy offences. The accused will be charged in front of the Special Criminal Court in Harcourt Square, Dublin in connection with a dissident republican investigation. Harcourt Square is the Dublin Metropolitan Region Headquarters and [...]
Posted on 30/09/12, filed under Spy Equipment | No Comments
Even those of you who have a rock solid relationship have probably been tempted in the past to partake in a little harmless ‘spouse surveillance’! Even if you don’t have any suspicions whatsoever that your partner is up to anything, it’s always there in the back of your mind to have a sneaky peek at [...]
Posted on 28/09/12, filed under Spy Equipment | No Comments
Are you one of those people who regularly misplace their wallet, purse or car keys? Do you hunt for hours, wasting both time and energy just because you have a bad memory and forget where you put things down? I think we could all relate to the ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ guy and that catch song [...]
Posted on 26/09/12, filed under Spy Equipment | No Comments
A lot of people have their suspicions that something might not be quite right in their relationship. It is those negative thoughts and feeling which can quickly take over your entire life and make you so paranoid that you think you might actually be crazy. If you find yourself in a relationship where the levels [...]
Posted on 24/09/12, filed under Spy Equipment | No Comments
Spy history has given us a whole host of both heroes and villains – and all that lies in between too! The best example of the ‘inbetweeners’ are those who were captured and decided to join the opposition rather than face punishment – not a bad option if the alternative was a death sentence. We [...]
Posted on 22/09/12, filed under News | No Comments
Schoolchildren are reported to be watched by an astonishing 100,000 spy cameras across the country, a report revealed last week. Surveillance equipment has been set up in playgrounds, classrooms and even toilets and changing rooms. Some schools are reported to have a camera for every five children – all in the name of controlling violence, [...]
Posted on 20/09/12, filed under News | No Comments
A spy car is all set to hit the road in Lancashire to crack down on illegal parkers such as school drop-off offenders and motorists who drive in the bus lanes. The controversial car costs over £50,000 and is able to capture offending motorists on it’s specialist spy equipment camera. It then uses automatic number [...]
Posted on 18/09/12, filed under News | No Comments
It’s become an everyday occurrence for people to document every aspect of their lives on social networking sites, but one guy took this a step further by documenting every conversation he had on a voice recorder for three years. His voice recorder obsession began to interfere with every aspect of his life, as he explains [...]
Posted on 16/09/12, filed under Spy Equipment | No Comments
The world of spying, espionage and covert intelligence is littered with a whole host of intriguing characters who have appeared through the ages. One of the most fascinating is Mata Hari. With her well-documented career as a spy she has shaped our idea of women in the world of espionage and all things undercover. Here’s [...]
Posted on 14/09/12, filed under Spy Equipment | No Comments
If you are looking for spy equipment that is totally inconspicuous, yet still just as effective as larger devices, then mobile phone surveillance software could be just what you need. Everyone has a mobile phone – from schoolkids and grannies, to parents and company directors – which means that your discreet spy equipment won’t look [...]
Posted on 12/09/12, filed under News | No Comments
Nuance has introduced Dragon Dictate for Mac 3, the latest version of its speech recognition software. This new version promises to deliver improved accuracy, increased speed and greater simplicity. With this new version of the software, Nuance has also added Smart Format Rules – designed to help users personalise Dragon Dictate on their Mac, as [...]
Posted on 10/09/12, filed under News | No Comments
Following on from last week’s claims that a council were using surveillance equipment originally designed to tackle terrorists and protect national security, it appears that they weren’t the only ones to utilise this technology. It appears that Dover District Council have also been making use of the surveillance equipment too. Big Brother Watch found that [...]
Posted on 08/09/12, filed under Spy Equipment | No Comments
When you are standing having a conversation with someone, you can reasonably make sure that you are not being overheard or listened to. You can suss out your surroundings and move to a more private place if need be – but how can you be sure that your communications are safe when online or on [...]