intelligence (spying) companies

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The workers from Union Pacific Corp were not pleased, to say the least when they found out that the company uses drones to spy on them in the railroad yards to make sure that adhere to the safety guidelines. In response to the unmanned aerial supervision, the union urged the workers to flood the ...

It even shut down certain components when forensic tools were in use on the device. “Slingshot is very complex, and the developers behind it have clearly spent a great deal of time and money on its creation,” company researchers wrote. “Its infection vector is remarkable—and, to the best of our knowledge ...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has described Southern Response's use of a security firm to spy on earthquake insurance claimants as inappropriate, and warned government departments must not do the same. Ardern said the Crown claims management company's spying activities, revealed last week, ...

According to intelligence briefings, some staff leave the Russian embassy on Orwell Road in Rathgar only in the company of intelligence officers believed to be working under diplomatic cover. Irish authorities are now trying to establish if the Russian embassy is being used by either spying agency to gather ...

but it doesn't tend to handle that idea the way you'd expect: This crew of spies working with the French Resistance would not have bothered having one single meeting about whether an autistic savant could be a surgeon, and if they had, their commanding officer would've told them to suck it up in short ...

Humble's personal curiosity became professional in 2004, when he launched his Gilbert-based company that specializes in crafting custom spylike doors and passageways. What looks like a bookcase or mirror gives way to a closet, small room or a large one when a button is pushed or a switch is pulled.

Last year, a vigilante hacker broke into the servers of a company that sells spyware to everyday consumers and wiped their servers, deleting photos captured from ... Thursday, the hacker said he started wiping some cloud servers that belong to Retina-X Studios, a Florida-based company that sells spyware ...

The investigation today forced the Government to act, opening an inquiry into its insurance company, Southern Response. ... The exact spying tactics used by Thompson and Clark have been kept secret, but the organisation has previously been caught snooping on and even infiltrating environmental ...

Russia has denied responsibility, but it's now reported Mr Skripal was close to a security consultant who worked for Christopher Steele's company Orbis Business Intelligence. Mr Steele is the former British spy who compiled a damning dossier on Donald Trump, which was released in full by Buzzfeed in ...

Grey Heron is a new cyber-arms dealer offering to sell hacking tools to governments; it is fronted by Eric Rabe, who previously represented the disgraced, hacked Italian malware company Hacking Team, notorious for selling spy tools to governments that used them to target dissidents who were tortured ...

Because while Facebook is one of the biggest players in this space, there are thousands of other companies that spy on and manipulate us for profit. ... while the individualized profile-driven manipulation exposed by Cambridge Analytica feels abhorrent, it's really no different from what every company wants ...

As a start-up called Cambridge Analytica sought to harvest the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans in summer 2014, the company received help from at least one employee at Palantir Technologies, a top Silicon Valley contractor to American spy agencies and the Pentagon. It was a Palantir ...

... possible target of spying in Seattle caught company executives off guard. On Monday, Boeing officials, who had not heard the news in advance, “declined to comment or speculate” on what is behind the U.S. action. Still, the everyday working security assumption must be that a superpower wanting to spy ...

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