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Can I DIY Bug Sweep? DIY Home Bug Sweeps and Why It’s Not a Good Idea

Introduction In an age where privacy is increasingly under threat, the idea of performing a bug sweep in your home can be tempting. With various DIY bug sweep kits available on the market, it might seem like a simple and cost-effective solution. However, there are significant drawbacks to tackling this task on your own. This […]

How to Sweep Your House or Office for Listening Devices

In today’s world, where privacy is increasingly scarce, bug sweeps serve as a critical defense against unwanted surveillance. Have you considered how to sweep your house or office for listening devices? Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM), or bug sweeps, are essential for safeguarding private spaces from hidden cameras, GPS trackers, and microphones that can turn confidential […]

Finding Apple Air Tags

Finding Apple Air Tags can be finding that needle in a hay stack. In the world of tracking technology, the pursuit of hidden trackers often mirrors the detective work we see in popular TV series; fans of Better Call Saul may recall Episode 1 of Series 3, where the tenacious Mike Ehrmantraut had a suspicion […]

Walls have ears and so do watches – The Smart Watch Bug

In recent years, the worlds of fashion, sport and technology have collided; the introduction of wearable devices provides consumers with live data such heat rates, number of steps walked or calories burnt on that 10km run. With apps providing weather forecasts along with the all-important ability to order an UBER to the wearer’s location or to […]

The Office Visitor – The Corporate Spy

Do you trust everyone who attends your workplace? Whether it be a staff member or a visitor, there is always risk of IP theft and corporate espionage. Consider the five visitors in the above photo; the four on the left are visitors from a consulting firm signing in at concierge and waiting to meet their client. The […]

Store and Forward Bugs are Easy Child’s Play

In December 2016, we wrote an article which discussed the threat of bringing smart watches into sensitive areas and the concept of engaging a Technical Surveillance Counter Measures (TSCM) team to monitor meetings in real time for potential data transmission (eavesdropping). However, there is more than one way to skin a cat and the deployment of corporate […]

BYOD – Is your data at risk of an Insider Threat?

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) to the office offers the risk of an Insider Threat. The threat of a rogue internal player is often the most challenging to counter. With the ability to copy data onto a plethora of storage mediums, the rogue employee has the potential to steal IP at ease; the introduction of […]

Australian Bug Detection Group In The News

13 October 2021 Australian Bug Detection Group in the news. Our Director and lead TSCM Specialist Alan Earl was interviewed on Channel 7 Morning Show September 2021 Australian Bug Detection Group in the news. We were interviewed by NewsCorp as part of a broader PodCast called EyeSpy June 2018 Australian Bug Detection Group in the […]

Locating Hidden Cameras

Locating Hidden Cameras can be challenging; sometimes concealed, sometimes hidden in plain sight. Ever wondered how we locate hidden IP Cameras? Here are a couple of examples of using some of our technology to locate a hidden IP camera in a residential situation: Using a Non Linear Junction Detector Using a thermal image camera Contact Australian […]