Although we aim to find any hidden audio/video and other types of counter espionage devices, we are aware that these types of equipment are changing along with today’s complicated technological society.

Radio frequency (RF) Bugs

The Radio frequency (RF) Bugs are the most popular and easiest way to bug an office or any other room.

RF Bugs work by transmitting the audio within a room away to a distant Listening Post (LP) where it can be recorded for later use, using a radio carrier frequency. Most devices work over a relatively short distance; up to a distance of approx 500 metres. Specialist high power devices will work over a greater distance of about 1000 metres. There are even some devices that can be listened to from anywhere in the world, by using a system similar to the way a mobile phone works.

RF Bugs operate on batteries or can even be run on your own power supply, giving them unlimited power without the need to keep changing there batteries. Therefore reducing the risk of being seen doing this, so once it has been installed it will carry on transmitting the audio it is capturing.

Just about anyone who has access, or can gain access to your premises can place a simple RF Bug which can be planted in seconds.

Cleaners, contractors, employees and even security guards have all been the targets by unscrupulous individuals to plant Bugging Devices on there behalf. In most cases it’s because they are happy to make some quick and generous cash. Without paying TAX. For just plugging in a phone or mains adaptor straight into a wall socket. Just imagine the damage that a simple Bugging Device could cause if it was placed in the right place.

Do you have a cordless Keyboard? One of these will transmit all of your keystrokes including (what you thought was safe) your passwords at a frequency of about 27 Mhz at a level of -50 dbm @ 1 metre. It would be possible to receive these signals from over 100 metres away, without you even knowing.

An RF Bug is very simple, quick and easy to install. If someone knows how to plug a plug into a socket they can plant a Bug, it’s that simple. If it’s plugged into an electrical socket there will be no batteries to run out.

Any business with information that might be valuable to a competitor is valuable to the Industrial Spy. Or maybe they just want to ruin your companies reputation.

Advance knowledge of a new product, development. Property schemes, new contract bids. takeovers and mergers can mean big money to the spectator.

Modern communication techniques from telephones and fax machines right through to computer transmitions are all potential targets for the Industrial Spy.

Micro-electronics have made devices so tiny that they are virtually impossible to detect just by a visual search, especially by the untrained eye. Fortunately the detection for this equipment is just as advanced technically as the devices themselves,

Likely Targets

Virtually any organization has information that has confidential and if passed to interested third parties could cause financial loss and damage or may compromise Company/ National security. The company boardroom, the telephone, the car radiotelephone, fax mile machine, computer, typewriter and dictation machines are just a few examples of sources of confidential information and are targets for the eavesdropper.

Eavesdropping need not be confined to the Company office. Directors and other personal can also be targeted at there homes.