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  Industrial espionage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Industrial espionage is espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of national security purposes.
A commission of the European Parliament suspects that ECHELON, a communications espionage system operated by the NSA and agencies of the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, is used for political espionage and occasionally to help American companies against European competitors.
The development of the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic aircraft, with its rapid design and similarity to Concorde, was one of the most prominent examples of industrial espionage in the 20th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Industrial_espionage   (293 words)

  
 Espionage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Espionage is the practice of obtaining secrets (spying) from rivals or enemies for military, political, or economic advantage.
Espionage, when performed by a citizen of the target state, is generally considered to be a form of treason.
The Cold War involved intense espionage activity between the United States of America and its allies and the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China and their allies, particularly related to nuclear weapons secrets.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Espionage   (1832 words)

  
 Foreign Economic and Industrial Espionage Remains A Threat in 1999
Economic and industrial espionage against the United States by foreign entities, both government-sponsored and private, threatens US economic competitiveness and results in the loss of millions of US dollars and thousands of jobs annually.
They target industries, the US Government, and US persons in an effort to support their nations' economic and military priorities and to avoid the time and expense of advanced research and development.
Yet, unreported foreign economic espionage attempts or cases that are not prosecuted are likely to further embolden foreign adversaries.
www.fas.org /irp/ops/ci/docs/fy99.htm   (883 words)

  
 Industrial Espionage (from espionage) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
A by-product of the technological revolution, industrial espionage is a reaction to the efforts of many businessmen to keep secret their designs, formulas, manufacturing processes, research, and future plans in order to protect or expand their shares of the market.
Espionage is sometimes distinguished from the broader category of intelligence gathering by its aggressive nature and its illegality.
Espionage is the secret gathering of information about a rival, but very often the spying is done on friendly or neutral countries as well.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-200384   (788 words)

  
 Industrial Espionage
Industrial espionage is a relatively new problem to be dealt with in international circles.
Foreign industrial espionage can be defined as industrial espionage conducted against one government or corporation by another government or corporation with government assistance aimed at obtaining commercial secrets.
While the Industrial Espionage Act of 1996 protects proprietary economic information including intangible property such as software source codes from theft or misuse in espionage cases, it is often difficult to halt such behavior entirely when other governments are involved in obtaining this information.
www.munfw.org /archive/47th/2nd2.htm   (357 words)

  
 Annual Report to Congress, 2000 - NACIC
Industrial espionage is defined as activity conducted by a foreign government or by a foreign company with direct assistance of a foreign government against a private US company for the purpose of obtaining commercial secrets.
Successful espionage seldom comes to light, and even when economic espionage is discovered, companies are often reluctant to report to authorities that they have been the victim of such activity because of the embarrassing publicity and legal complications that may follow.
Espionage can go on for years without a specific incident to trigger the situation; therefore, it is difficult to estimate the extent of economic information collection and/or industrial espionage by foreign entities.
www.fas.org /irp/ops/ci/docs/fy00.htm   (4981 words)

  
 Annual Report to Congress on Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage
Econo mic and industrial espionage are often connected to trade sanctions and embargoes against designated countries, strategic trade issues, and protection of intellectual property rights, and thus fall under Customs responsibilities.
The industries that have been the targets in most cases of economic espionage and other collection activities include biotechnology; aerospace; telecommunications, including the technology to build the "information superhighway"; computer software/ hardw are; advanced transportation and engine technology; advanced materials and coatings, including "stealth" technologies; energy research; defense and armaments technology; manufacturing processes; and semiconductors.
These industries are of strategic interest to the United States because they produce classified products for the government, produce dual use technology used in both the public and private sectors, and are responsible for leading-edge technologies critic al to maintaining US economic security.
www.tscm.com /indust.html   (7985 words)

  
 Industrial Espionage News
He now specializes in corporate espionage and knows firsthand the ease with which company secrets -- not to mention sensitive personal matters -- can be divulged when someone doesn't know he or she is being surreptitiously listened to.
Arthur Hulnick, a professor at Boston University and an expert on corporate espionage with 35 years of experience in the intelligence field, explained that there are three categories of economic espionage: legal, illegal, and a “gray and shady” area, which may be an accurate categorization of the teachings conducted at the EGE.
The necessity of engaging in economic espionage beyond traditional counter-intelligence is only magnified when one also considers the extent to which other countries are using economic espionage and other aggressive economic techniques against the United States.
www.tscmvideo.com /News/industrial-espionage-news.html   (3124 words)

  
 Industrial Espionage Becomes Favorite Way to Achieve Quick Gains   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
And industrial espionage - stealing someone else's business secrets -- has become a favorite means of achieving quick gains.
Industrial espionage happens when one company steals secrets from another, strictly for competitive advantage.
And industrial espionage is unlikely to end anytime soon, says Professor Carayannis.
www.voanews.com /english/2005-04-29-voa1.cfm   (955 words)

  
 Report to Congress on Foreign Industrial Espionage
Economic and industrial espionage are often connected to trade sanctions and embargoes against designated countries, strategic trade issues, and protection of intellectual property rights, and thus fall under Customs responsibilities.
The industries that have been the targets in most cases of economic espionage and other collection activities include biotechnology; aerospace; telecommunications, including the technology to build the "information superhighway"; computer software/ hardware; advanced transportation and engine technology; advanced materials and coatings, including ' stealth" technologies; energy research; defense and armaments technology; manufacturing processes; and semiconductors.
These industries are of strategic interest to the United States because they produce classified products for the government, produce dual use technology used in both the public and private sectors, and are responsible for leading-edge technologies critical to maintaining US economic security.
www.fas.org /sgp/othergov/indust.html   (7823 words)

  
 Industrial Espionage and Business Intelligence - Wally Bock, Author, Keynote Speaker, Article
Federal prosecutors have been investigating whether Reuters Analytics (a subsidiary of Reuters Holdings PLC) is guilty of industrial espionage activities which involve break ins of computers at its competitor Bloomberg.
Expect more industrial espionage stories in the months ahead, and more corporate cracking into other computers.
Industrial espionage is one of a few buzzwords that are starting to crop up more frequently in the business press and on TV.
www.bockinfo.com /docs/iebi.htm   (641 words)

  
 Economic Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Espionage is always illegal, but much intelligence collection today is done by legal or quasi-legal means.
Traditional espionage, the use of spies and hidden microphones, is usually one part of a larger, coordinated intelligence collection program.
Countries with less developed industrial sectors often prefer older "off-the-shelf" hardware and software that costs less and is more suitable for integration into their military programs.
www.dss.mil /search-dir/training/csg/security/T1threat/Economic.htm   (1439 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Industrial espionage 'real and out there'
And the galloping pace of technology is making espionage, such as eavesdropping or theft, ever more of a potential problem for companies today.
The Institute of Directors (IoD) confirms that, from talking to its members, the potential of becoming a victim of industrial espionage now seems to be bigger than ever.
"Industrial espionage isn't just in films or TV shows, it is real and out there." said Mr King.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/3853913.stm   (762 words)

  
 Trojan spyware suspects arrested as major industrial espionage scandal emerges
The full extent of the industrial spying operation has yet to be discovered, Peal Liat, superintendent at Tel Aviv police headquarters, told Computer Weekly.
The agencies are accused of conducting industrial espionage on a huge scale against scores of computers belonging to listed companies and private individuals, according to documents lodged at Tel Aviv Magistrates Court.
Further arrests are expected as Israeli police complete forensic analysis of the computers seized from the offices of private detective agencies, Israeli firms accused of spying on their competitors, and Haephrati's London company.
www.computerweekly.com /Articles/2005/06/07/210245/Trojanspywaresuspectsarrestedasmajorindustrialespionagescandalemerges.htm   (619 words)

  
 Peter A Heims, Countering Industrial Espionage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Industrial espionage is one of the greatest threats to industry today, responsible for millions of pounds of loss
It combines, in readable form, the general background of the whole subject, supported by a wealth of information as to the techniques employed and the steps which companies, individuals and organisations can and should take to protect their interests or bring culprits to book.
This book is a must for those concerned with industry, for executives, production managers - and even public relations officers who, in their anxiety to promote their firm's name and standing through the media, often disclose information, or give an industrial spy advance notice of the existence of industrial secrets which are worth stealing.
www.findadetective.co.uk /peterheims/book.htm   (324 words)

  
 Echelon 'not used for industrial espionage' - vnunet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A preliminary report by the European Parliament has attempted to dispel the myth that the Echelon spy network is capable of intercepting all data around the world and using it for industrial espionage.
However, "were it to be used for other purposes and for industrial espionage directed against foreign firms, this would constitute an infringement of law".
According to the research, Echelon could only be abused for industrial espionage against "firms which operate in three time zones, so that interim results are sent from Europe to America, and then on to Asia".
www.vnunet.com /vnunet/news/2115268/echelon-industrial-espionage   (467 words)

  
 Industrial Espionage : Philippines : Gov.Ph : Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Corporate or Industrial Espionage involves operations conducted by one corporation against another for the purpose of acquiring a competitive advantage in domestic and global market.
I watched a documentary on industrial espionage (can't remember the title now) which revealed how the US spied on France via its Echelon network which intercepts around 3 billion communications in a single day.
Espionage is clandestine activity of a person inside an organization or an institution collecting information to use that would counter, destroy or fail any plan of action being undertaken by the industry.
www.gov.ph /forum/thread.asp?rootID=35115&catID=11   (956 words)

  
 Industrial Espionage Electronic Eavesdropping Surveillance
Industrial espionage and electronic eavesdropping surveillance is growing at a phenomenal rate.
Discover how the Industrial Espionage Act has done little, if anything, to deter the rapidly growing rate domestic and foreign competitive intelligence in the U.S. or around the world.
Learn how corporate espionage is used to gain an unfair competitive advantage and how technical technology to support these activities is rapidly growing.
www.tscmvideo.com   (790 words)

  
 InformationWeek | Computer-Related Espionage | Latest Online Menace: Custom Worms Built For Industrial Espionage | June ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The industrial espionage ring broken up by Israeli police over the weekend is only the most recent evidence of a trend toward smart targeting by hackers.
Jun 1, 2005 03:17 PM The industrial espionage ring broken by Israeli police over the weekend, where private investigators hired a programmer to custom-create a Trojan horse that was then planted on rivals' PCs, is only the most recent evidence of a trend towards smart targeting by hackers, a security analyst said Wednesday.
In the U.S., where news of computer-related espionage is rare, the closest case was one in 2004, when six men were indicted in the nation's first denial-of-service attack against competitors' Web sites.
www.informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163702855   (927 words)

  
 Industrial Espionage & Spying Research Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
If you don't spend much time fretting about corporate espionage, you may want to introduce a little paranoia into your life.
Consider the potential for corporate espionage is so vast two years ago the FBI and CIA told U.S. business it was on its own.
About 85 percent of espionage crimes are perpetrated by employees.
www.internet-intelligence.org /industrial-espionage.html   (666 words)

  
 Espionage - BBC NEWS | World | Europe | UK diplomats in Moscow spying row   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Espionage Act was passed by Congress in 1917 as a result of the United The Espionage Act was attacked as being unconstitutional but it resulted in
A group of intelligence officers and academics are meeting this weekend to hammer out a code of ethics for spies.
The CIA plot to kill him is among the Cold War espionage tales in "The Spy Files.
network-monitoring.allworldsites.com /q/network-monitoring-espionage.htm   (296 words)

  
 Industrial Espionage Attack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
To simulate real-world circumstances, I wanted to perform a full-scale industrial espionage attack against the company, using both technical and non-technical methods.
Espionage involves the use of basic, effective methods.
Significantly, I by no means exhausted the methods that a real industrial espionage attack might have included.
www.dss.mil /training/csg/security/V1comput/Case1.htm   (3206 words)

  
 Hearing on Economic Espionage-5/9/96
These industries are of strategic interest to the United States on three levels: 1) they produce classified products for the government; 2) they produce dual-use technology used in both the public and private sectors; and 3) they are responsible for R&D and creation of leading-edge technologies critical to maintaining U.S. economic security.
Since no Federal statute directly addresses economic espionage or the protection of proprietary economic information in a thorough, systematic manner, investigations and prosecutions attempt to combat the problem by using existing laws, all of which were designed to counteract other problems.
FBI investigations demonstrate that economic espionage perpetrated by foreign governments, institutions, instrumentalities and persons directed against the United States, establishments, corporations or persons in the United States is a critical national security issue which requires both a counterintelligence and law enforcement response.
www.fas.org /irp/congress/1996_hr/h960509f.htm   (4664 words)

  
 KoreaTimes : Industrial Espionage by Foreign Competitors Increasing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The country's businesses are exposed to corporate spying by foreign competitors because of a lack of understanding and security measures, a report by the nation's intelligence agency revealed Wednesday.
By sector, the information technology industry was found to be most vulnerable, with 20 cases of industrial espionage, followed by electronics companies with 17 cases, the report said.
Of the total, about 88 percent, or 45 cases, were committed by current or former employees, while 39 cases, or 76 percent, were committed by company researchers, according to the report.
times.hankooki.com /lpage/biz/200408/kt2004082517454911910.htm   (160 words)

  
 Palace Guard Software - Security White Paper
The history of industrial espionage has been in the physical world and thus numerous practices have been developed to handle this portion of security assessment.
The age of network based industrial espionage has a brief history and thus less developed security assessment practices.
Removing the vulnerabilities as seen from outside the enterprise is the first step to halt the efforts of the casual hacker and industrial espionage age.
www.pgsas400.com /whitepaper.htm   (2197 words)

  
 Economic and Industrial Espionage: a Threat to Corporate America?
The media features plenty of stories on hackers defacing web pages or disrupting services, but there is scant coverage of economic or industrial espionage cases.
Economic and Industrial Espionage present a series of challenges to many American companies.
It is the "public voice" of the FBI for espionage, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, economic espionage, cyber and physical infrastructure protection and all national security issues.
www.iwar.org.uk /infocon/economic-espionage.htm   (1193 words)

  
 Could The Anthrax Mailings Be Military-Industrial Espionage?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Among the first to suspect military-industrial espionage involving anthrax scares was Leonard A. Cole, a political scientist at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.
Although several contractors are implicated in what might best be called "military-industrial espionage," the accompanying flow chart depicts the primary suspects are linked to the highest levels of government and to the Central Intelligence Agency both of which operate with little to no effective oversight or judicial regulation.
Industry role in bioterrorism response planning must be open to the public.
www.rense.com /general17/csl.htm   (5303 words)

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