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Chinese Internet Spy Arrested for F...
China has recently been in the news for allegedly spying on U.S. businesses. Turns out that their internet spies have been wreaking havoc on home turf too. Yu Bing, Beijing’s top government internet spy, was recently arrested in a case involving corporate espionage and bribery.
Yu works for the Beijing Municipal Security Bureau, where he heads …
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 …
Tracking Hezbollah’s Every Mo...
In the espionage trade, half the battle is figuring out how to operate in stealth mode and the other half, figuring out how to closely track everyone else (even though they too are aiming to be completely undetectable). Recent discoveries show that Hezbollah hasn’t been faring too well on the first half of that battle for …
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 …