TENAHA, Texas (KTRE) –
Tenaha Mayor George Bowers has confirmed that Texas Rangers and FBI agents searched city property for bugging devices this week.
Ranger Tom Davis is the lead investigator in the case, according to a spokesman with the ranger’s office. Messages have been left for Davis.
By on 15/08/2011
The Finance Ministry on Friday said that no bugging device was found within its premises, including the office of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee [ Images ], and the suspicious adhesive discovered was chewing gum-like material.
Minister of State for Finance S S Palanimanickam [ Images ] informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply that security audits are periodically conducted in the ministry and Mukherjee’s office.
One such routine security check was conducted on September 4, 2010, by the Investigation Directorate of the CBDT, which engaged the services of an expert with the domain knowledge of the subject, he said.
During this check, adhesive-like substances were noticed at various locations, Palanimanickam added.
“This was brought to the notice of the Prime Minister by the Union Finance Minister in September 2010,” he said.
The Prime Minister directed the Intelligence Bureau to conduct a secret inquiry into the matter.
“Adhesive patches were found stuck at a few places. The adhesive patches were subjected to chemicalforensic analysis, which revealed that the substance contained contents comparable with contents of chewing gum,” the minister added.
Physical examination of the recovered substance did not reveal any sign or mark suggestive of any device having been attached thereto.
“Thereafter, all these premises have been subjected to regular screening. During these exercises, no devices have been detected,” Palanimanickam added.
In June this year, the government faced a controversy of alleged snooping of the offices of Mukherjee and his aides in the North Block.
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While social networking sites are not accessible from school computers, Lila Mularczyk, the deputy president of the NSW Secondary Principals’ Council, recently argued that cyber-bullying connected with school was treated in the same way, no matter when it occurred.
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The military and intelligence services of Russia and China are conducting a sustained campaign to steal American commercial and military secrets through cyber espionage, according to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and he warned that sophisticated computer hacking poses a major danger to U.S. interests.
“Nation states are investing huge amounts of time, personnel and money to steal our data,” Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) said Friday in a speech to an association of retired U.S. intelligence officers. “We are not as prepared as we need to be.”
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A court in Uzbekistan has sentenced a former employee of British mining company Oxus Gold to 12 years in prison on charges of industrial espionage.
The company said in a statement Thursday that a military court convicted Said Ashurov, who worked as chief metallurgist at a joint venture, which is at a center of dispute between the British company and Uzbekistan authorities.
The Amantaytau Goldfields joint venture is developing some of the world’s most promising gold fields in the central Asian country.
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