Checking personal items for wiretapping

During actively developing technologies, we are overgrown with a large number of personal items that are regularly next to us. Such as phone, laptop, tablet, power bank, electronic devices for smoking and others. Tracking technologies also do not stand still and very often there are cases when embedded devices are found in just such personal accessories.

If you want to protect yourself from leakage of confidential information or think that a wiretap has been attached to your laptop, you should check these devices for embedded devices, and then follow a few simple recommendations in order to protect yourself from data leakage to intruders.

We present to your attention a list of the most common techniques in which TSCM specialists discovered listening devices and trackers.

Notebook

Now almost every person has it, and for many it is also a working tool. In addition to personal data, a huge amount of working information is stored in laptops, our browsers store all access to accounts, and even the password from the personal account of the bank! And this is all not counting mail messengers and other data.

Hacking a laptop can literally give attackers access to your life, and it’s not just cyber security, our employees have found embedded tracking devices inside the laptop more than once.

In order to check the laptop for wiretapping, first of all, disassembly and visual inspection of the laptop for the presence of a foreign embedded device is carried out. The second stage is checking the operating system of the device, all unknown shortcuts, bookmarks and unfamiliar files are viewed. In the end, the fully tested laptop is returned to the owner. At the request of the client, our specialists can also check the laptop bag for the presence of embedded devices.

Telephone

In modern society, phones are considered the most popular gadgets for communication between people, they occupy a leading place in our list of wiretapping devices.

TSCM specialists will check your phone for tracking devices by disassembling the device and visual inspection.

Devices for heating and smoking tobacco, vapes

Even in such seemingly unusual gadgets, attackers manage to wiretap, because most of the time these devices for personal use are next to us and serve as an excellent place for installing a bug and spying on a person. Typically, such devices are wiretapped, or trackers to track a person’s movements and collect data about him.

After reading all of the above, you may have a question, how can you protect yourself from installing bugs in personal belongings? The TSCM campaign has several recommendations for this question:

• Do not allow strangers to your belongings
• Activate jammers to jam the signal when conducting confidential conversations
• Don’t leave your phone and other gadgets unattended
• Periodically involve special services to check the premises and equipment for embedded devices