Computer Espionage
Computer Fraud & Security · 2003
Philip Hunter Industrial espionage has long been big business, and now costs US companies over $100 billion a year according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. With economic warfare replacing military conflict among the world’s leading industrial nations, industrial espionage also operates increasingly between countries, with the US a particular target as the global leader in many technologies. Increasingly computers are involved in all this activity, either as the means of attack, or as the medium for transferring the stolen information.