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Spy cameras are very handy gadgets to have around your home and in daily life to increase your security. Having video surveillance in your daily life can help you feel safer. Having surveillance footage available is also handy if you need evidence of a crime.  There are many different uses for spy cameras that can make your day-to-day life a...

With the world slowly starting to open up again, one of the first things on the public's priority list is a holiday in the sun. Business trips are also starting to become more frequent, as people get used to moving around again. After a year of lockdown, it is easy to get caught up in the excitement of travelling and...

GPS trackers are one of the handiest gadgets on the market currently. Everyone can benefit from having one! Looking after family members GPS trackers can be a handy way for the whole family to feel a little safer when out and about. If your children are heading out for a day trip or going abroad, they may feel safer knowing...

When you drop a lot of cash on a new, top-of-the-range car, you would expect it to come fully equipped with all possible security gadgets. Unfortunately, most experienced criminals can quickly disarm standardised safety mechanisms. Whilst you may think an expensive car would be quite secure, you would, unfortunately, be wrong. Within the top ten most stolen cars in the...

Have you ever been using a piece of technology and just pondered exactly how it works? Sometimes we only ever contemplate what happens ‘under the hood’ when things don’t work. For example, this month (June 2021) a lot of Internet users found themselves wondering - quite legitimately - how Internet hosting worked. And that was only because a fairly large...

In 2020, a researcher at a Belgian university demonstrated how easy it was for him to hack a Tesla Model X. Using just $300 worth of hardware, Lennert Wouters exploited a combination of seemingly unconnected security flaws to remotely access the keyless entry system on a nearby Tesla Model X. He obviously didn’t steal it. He did highlight how quick...

There are many reasons why someone may spy on your business. It could be for purposes of corporate espionage, to steal data and use it to gain an advantage for their own business. This doesn’t only happen in spy movies - it actually takes place more often than you might think. Alternatively, potential burglars could be keeping an eye on...

Surveillance technology is creeping into more areas of our lives than ever before, from CCTV on the streets to spyware on our computers.  You can use this technology to improve your life, from securing your home to investigating a mysterious theft at your business. But what happens when unwanted surveillance starts to affect you? This is where counter surveillance comes...

Worried about being bugged? One of the only ways to know for sure is with a bug detector. Unwanted surveillance is more common than you might think – and there’s been a particular problem with it in holiday rentals over the last few years. Spy cameras are now much tinier and easier to hide, particularly when disguised as an innocuous...

More of us are working from home than ever before. While that can be great for cutting down on commuting and spending more time with the family, it also means quite literally bringing your work home. If you’ve set up a home office, you’re likely to have all kinds of confidential and sensitive company information in there. It could be...