TBILISI – The alleged ringleader of three Georgian photojournalists accused of spying for enemy Russia has confessed to involvement in espionage, both officials and his lawyer said on Tuesday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, an official at Georgia’s interior ministry said the alleged kingpin of the spy ring, European Pressphoto Agency photographer Zurab Kurtsikidze, had become the third of the trio to admit guilt.
“All three have now confessed,” the official told AFP.
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TBILISI, Georgia – The last of three photographers charged with espionage confessed Saturday to spying for Russia, Georgia’s Interior Ministry said — a claim that surprised the photographer’s own lawyer.
Ramaz Chinchaladze, lawyer for photographer Georgy Abdaladze, said his client insisted on his innocence in a meeting just ten minutes before the reported confession.
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The Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, which consists of lawmakers who are tasked with monitoring British spying apparatus, said in a report that the UK intelligence is suffering a steady loss of Internet experts to the private sector because the likes of Google and Microsoft offer much higher wages, British media reported.
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Shoulder surfing, the simple act of leering over a computer users’ shoulder to spy on passwords and other sensitive info, may not seem like the most advanced hacker trick. But when it comes to shoulder surfing Apple’s iPad, Haroon Meerhas it down to a science.
Earlier this week, the South African security researcher announced that he’d built shoulderPad, an app for Mac OS, jailbroken iPhones and iPads that’s designed to auto-snoop on iPad users’ passwords by watching their touchscreen keyboards. Simply pretend to be fiddling with your phone or tablet a few meters away from an iPad user while he or she enters their PIN or password, and shoulderPad can uses your device’s camera to read and interpret the target’s keystrokes.
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Omid Kokabee, an Iranian physics doctoral student affiliated with institutions in the United States and Spain, will go on trial tomorrow in Teheran facing charges of “communicating with a hostile government” and “illegal earnings”.
Kokabee has spent the past six months in jail on suspicion of conspiring against Iran (see ‘Missing physicist may have been jailed in Iran‘). Meanwhile, friends, colleagues and other scientists have coordinated a growing campaign to protest his innocence. They say that the graduate student in laser physics is not a political activist, and presents no security risk to the country.
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