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Steve Jobs Spies on Customers by Hiding in Bushes, Former Employee Says

A story published on The ZURBlog claims Apple’s CEO, who is currently on medical leave of absence, makes a habit out of hiding in the bushes nearby Apple retail stores to get a glimpse of customer behavior.According to Louis Corso, a former employee at the Apple Store Stanford, “We would find him hiding b...

23 February 2011
10:02 GMT

Secret US Spy Satellite Launches to Space

Yesterday, November 21, the United States launched a new, secretive spy satellite into space, aboard a heavy-lift delivery system. The launch took place from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), in Florida, right next door to the Kennedy Space Center, home of the shuttle fleet. A Delta 4 Heavy booster &ndash...

22 November 2010
04:48 GMT

Chinese Hackers Stole Korean Defense Secrets

Korean officials claim that hackers from China stole classified documents from the country's defense and foreign affairs ministries earlier this year by infecting computers with malware.AFP cites a National Intelligence Service (NIS) spokesperson, according to whom, attackers sent targeted emails in which they i...

15 October 2010
10:36 GMT

Alpha Protocol

It's hard not to notice that your main character has combat-boot clad feet that do not seem to touch the sand textured ground on which they walk. But this is Alpha Protocol and a specific amount of problems with the graphics and lack of controller response needs to be filled away in some mental drawer in order t...

4 June 2010
06:31 GMT

Alpha Protocol – Taking Heat in Saudi Arabia, Bond Style

First off, I am saddened to report that the clothing options in Alpha Protocol do not include a high tech two-piece suit with matching reinforced kevlar shirt, the only way a true James Bond wannabe would head into battle. I hope that the developers at Obsidian or some intrepid PC modders think about this omission an...

3 June 2010
18:31 GMT

Cyberspies Infiltrate the Swiss Foreign Ministry

The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has been the target of cyber-espionage. According to an official press release, government IT specialists have located a piece of malware on the network that was specifically designed to steal information and remain undetected.The Federal Department of Foreign Af...

2 November 2009
09:45 GMT

Top US Scientist Accused of Espionage

Stewart David Nozette, 52, a prominent scientist from the United States, has recently been arrested and charged with espionage. During his career, he worked at the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Pentagon and NASA, and regularly had access to documen...

20 October 2009
05:34 GMT

Huawei Denies Espionage Claims

Huawei's Managing Director, Guo Fulin, addressed and replied to accusations launched by Australian newspaper “The Weekend Australian,” which stated that several of Huawei's new employees in Australia had Government ties with China's People's Liberation Army. The newspaper also added th...

9 September 2009
05:39 GMT

Alpha Protocol Decrypted on October 6

SEGA, as the publisher, and Obsidian Entertainment, as the developer, have announced that Alpha Protocol, the role playing espionage videogame, is set to be released for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the PC on October 6.Alpha Protocol aims to offer a spy-based experience that takes elem...

3 July 2009
13:31 GMT

Alpha Protocol Delayed to October

SEGA and Obsidian are now saying that Alpha Protocol, the action and espionage title on which the two companies are collaborating, is set to be released for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the PC sometime during the month of October. The title should have been launched to players this Feb...

17 March 2009
06:02 GMT

North Korean Mata Hari Spy Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

Won Jeong Hwa, a North Korean woman who posed as a defector, has been sentenced by a South Korean court to five years in prison for espionage. She was arrested in July, because as part of her civic duties to give anti-communism lectures in South Korean military bases, she engaged in a relationship with an officer who...

22 October 2008
08:20 GMT

South Korean Military Equipment Development Secrets Compromised by Hackers

The South Korean defense industry is at great risk as the National Security Research Institute announced that malicious spyware applications had been detected on the networks of two major manufacturers of military equipment. The LIGNex1 and Hyundai Heavy Industries produce critical defense weapons valued at tens of b...

3 October 2008
08:28 GMT

North vs. South Korea - The Internet Espionage War

The South Korean army claims that its military secrets are continuously being threatened by North Korean espionage attacks. The most recent attack covered by South Korean newspapers seems to have taken place from behind the computer desk. The English version of the Chosun news website claims that its journalists hav...

2 September 2008
09:54 GMT

Germany Attacks China For Starting the Cyber-War!

This is a pretty serious piece of accusation coming from Germany as Hans Elmar Remberg, vice president of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution, said in a conference that the Chinese authorities tried to steal information using spyware programs installed on their computers. Besides the traditional ...

23 October 2007
06:30 GMT

My Name Is Bond! Squirrel Bond! - Iranians "Arrest" 14 Squirrels on Espionage Charges

Over time, animals have been used quite extensively in warfare-related activities, ranging from the messenger pigeons that carried secret messages up to bomb-sniffing dogs. However, what you're about to see as follows probably goes beyond anything you might have heard or seen up until now, if it proves to be a ...

23 July 2007
04:26 GMT


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