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Cyber Spies Strike Greenpeace
Spies have infiltrated Greenpeace. Espionage comes in many forms – and government or insurgent intelligence operatives need not always play a role, although corporate spies sometimes come from a government background, as in the recent spy flick Duplicity.
This time, Greenpeace has allegedly been targeted by EDF, the huge French nuclear energy company whose initials …
National Cybersecurity Advisor for ...
On Wednesday, legislation with the purpose of creating a new federal advisory position – with a direct reporting line to the President – was presented by two U.S. senators. We know what you’re thinking…doesn’t the President have enough advisors already? And how is this at all relevant to the world of espionage?
This is how: The …
China: “Computer Spy Allegations ...
A report released this weekend by Canadian researchers about the uncovering of a MEGA global cyber espionage operation clearly implicated the Chinese (though not necessarily the Chinese government). China responded to the allegations today with distinct indignation.
Ministry spokesman Qin Gang spoke to journalists: “Some people outside China are bent on fabricating lies of so-called Chinese …
Massive Cyber Espionage Operation U...
Canadian investigators reported this weekend that the computers of government and private offices in over 100 countries around the world have been infiltrated by a huge cyber espionage operation.
Private documents were stolen by the spy system, which is allegedly controlled by computers based primarily in China. The Canadian researchers who put the report together caution …
Bail Denied for Alleged Al Qaeda Sl...
Tagged as an ‘enemy combatant’ under the Bush Administration, alleged Al Qaeda sleeper agent Ali al-Marri was held in solitary confinement for over five years before finally getting the chance to go to trial this month. As an enemy combatant, he was being held indefinitely, without trial or sentence.
Al-Marri will stand trial for providing material …
NSA Joins Facebook for Spies
Baltimore Sun’s David Wood reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) has finally, several months after launch, decided to join a whopping 16 other US intelligence agencies in signing up for A-Space, the secure Facebook for intelligence analysts. You guessed it (or even if you didn’t), the ‘A’ stands for ‘analyst.’
You know that social …
NATO Constant Victim of Cyber Espio...
Computer Science specialists are almost a dime a dozen these days – the halls of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo pulsate with the creative energy of these modern-day architects, many of whom are self-taught. But being a computer wiz has other, less than legal and decidedly more sinister, applications.
Computer crime is on the rise and agencies …