18 Facts About Corporate espionage

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Industrial espionage, economic espionage, corporate spying, or corporate espionage is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security.

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In short, the purpose of Corporate espionage is to gather knowledge about one or more organizations.

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Economic and industrial Corporate espionage is most commonly associated with technology-heavy industries, including computer software and hardware, biotechnology, aerospace, telecommunications, transportation and engine technology, automobiles, machine tools, energy, materials and coatings and so on.

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Economic or industrial Corporate espionage is a threat to any business whose livelihood depends on information.

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Corporate espionage'storically known as a "patsy", an insider can be induced, willingly or under duress, to provide information.

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Later, with Western restrictions on the export of items thought likely to increase military capabilities to the USSR, Soviet industrial Corporate espionage was a well known adjunct to other spying activities up until the 1980s.

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Corporate espionage was described by Peter Wright in Spycatcher as having been "doubled" by the Belgian Surete de l'Etat.

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Corporate espionage revealed information about industrial espionage conducted by the ring, including the fact that Russian agents had obtained details of Concorde's advanced electronics system.

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Corporate espionage testified against two Kodak employees, living and working in Britain, during a trial in which they were accused of passing information on industrial processes to him, though they were eventually acquitted.

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Corporate espionage highlighted the fact the NSA uses mobile phone apps such as Angry Birds to gather personal data.

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Perpetrators of Corporate espionage have been known to find many ways of conning unsuspecting individuals into parting, often only temporarily, from their possessions, enabling others to access and steal information.

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The use of these methods of industrial Corporate espionage have increasingly become a concern for governments, due to potential attacks by terrorist groups or hostile foreign governments.

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One of the means of perpetrators conducting industrial Corporate espionage is by exploiting vulnerabilities in computer software.

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Malware and spyware are "tool[s] for industrial Corporate espionage", in "transmitting digital copies of trade secrets, customer plans, future plans and contacts".

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Some commentators speculated as to whether the attack was part of what is thought to be a concerted Chinese industrial Corporate espionage operation aimed at getting "high-tech information to jump-start China's economy".

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The Chinese government responded to UK accusations of economic Corporate espionage by saying that the report of such activities was 'slanderous' and that the government opposed hacking which is prohibited by law.

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Corporate espionage found that German targets which received special protection from surveillance of domestic intelligence agencies by Germany's Basic Law - including numerous enterprises based in Germany – were featured in the NSA's wishlist in a surprising plenitude.

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Difference between competitive intelligence and economic or industrial Corporate espionage is not clear; one needs to understand the legal basics to recognize how to draw the line between the two.

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