Posted on 01/30/2010 11:08:53 PM PST by pissant
THE security service MI5 has accused China of bugging and burgling UK business executives and setting up honeytraps in a bid to blackmail them into betraying sensitive commercial secrets.
A leaked MI5 document says that undercover intelligence officers from the Peoples Liberation Army and the Ministry of Public Security have also approached UK businessmen at trade fairs and exhibitions with the offer of gifts and lavish hospitality.
The gifts cameras and memory sticks have been found to contain electronic Trojan bugs which provide the Chinese with remote access to users computers.
MI5 says the Chinese government represents one of the most significant espionage threats to the UK because of its use of these methods, as well as widespread electronic hacking.
Written by MI5s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, the 14-page restricted report describes how China has attacked UK defence, energy, communications and manufacturing companies in a concerted hacking campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Just tell me the guy who left the deposit on the blue dress wasn't roped in this way (if not already willing).
As for trojans, spyware, and bugs, where do those computers come from??
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