Corporate Espionage
Corporate Espionage
There are many BIG Companies in the world…
many BIG companies in the same industry….
and ALL of them wants to be No.1…!!
Those phrases are what we know since we entered our feet to work at a company, so does the corporate executives and owners of those companies.
But most of them, including you, doesn’t know how much money those companies are willing to spend to get to conduct spying activity known as corporate espionage. According to the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), these companies spent $2 Billion to spy on each other in 2004, so what about 5 years afterwards, 2009.
What do they really want to get out of their competitors?, here are some examples :
That is quite frightening for most people i suppose. The scariest part is the covert surveillance devices they are using to collect those datas, are commonly cheap, comparing to the losses they made out of their corporate espionage activities. They could be bought straight off the internet for example, or for someone who is more professional they could make devices easily and modify it to their needs. We’ll talk about how easy and cheap they are on another blog post later on.
The core problem of how these horrible things could happens are the unawareness of Security Directors, CEOs, Board members and High Profile Individuals of this issue. That leads to the unhighly paid attention to security procedures policy in the company, unprofessional security personnel, and the lack of security knowledge of all the employees in a company.
After a huge amount of profit losses, a failed merger plan and/or stolen marketing ideas, the companies start to look for answers of how it happened. Then they realizes that their competitor knows everything or something about them & they’re already screwed. By that time it’s already too late and that’s the time when they’re starting to realize the meaning of corporate espionage.
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Corporate Espionage
Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost Part II: When State Entities Target Intellectual Propery
State-sponsored economic espionage and intellectual property theft are the most sophisticated and formidable threats.
Why do nation states engage in economic espionage and intellectual property theft? Primarily, to acquire technology to advance a military program, or to advance the economic competitiveness of the nation’s industrial base, or simply to ensure that the major companies and contributors to the nation’s GDP continue to make that contribution.
How do nation states affect the acquisition of coveted intellectual property? In some instances, they engage their own law enforcement or intelligence services to surreptitiously acquire it, while in other instances, they publicly engage the owners of the intellectual property with a demand, which it believes is in the best interest of their citizens.
State-sponsored economic espionage and intellectual property theft are global issues. The threat is not unique to U.S. businesses or researchers. Many nations conduct such activities, and the interests of many nations are targeted.
When an insider is co-opted by an intelligence service, the activity becomes more sophisticated, and the ability to detect and/or defend against it is beyond the means of most corporate security mechanisms.
Ironically, sometimes the target is a company that was itself found guilty by the legal system as having instigated instances of industrial espionage, and to have stolen a competitor’s intellectual property.
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Corporate Espionage
By Richard Power and Christopher Burgess
We have found two profound misconceptions common among CEOs. One of the great misconceptions is that the threat of economic espionage or trade secret theft is a limited concern—that it is only an issue if you are holding on to something like the formula for Coca-Cola or the design of the next Intel microprocessor. The case studies included here illustrate the fallacy of thinking that this threat is someone else’s problem.
The other great misconception, held by many business leaders who do acknowledge the danger to their trade secrets and other intellectual property, is that the nature of this threat is sufficiently understood and adequately addressed. Often, on closer inspection, the information-protection programs these business leaders rely on are mired in Industrial Age thinking; they have not been adapted to the dynamic and dangerous new environment forged by globalization and the rise of the Information Age.
This article is based on open-source (i.e., not classified) intelligence. There is a compelling lesson in this fact. A decade ago, such stories rarely made it onto the news wire or into the courts. Today, they are commonplace. Unfortunately, the awareness and defenses required to thwart such damaging activities, although economical and effective, are far from commonplace. Our hope is to change that.
To provide a comprehensive overview of the diverse vectors of attack, and how to evaluate whether your enterprise has the necessary defenses in place, we will look at actual cases organized into three broad categories:
• When insiders and competitors target businesses
• When state-sponsored trade secret theft targets businesses
• When counterfeiters, pirates and organized crime target products
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Laser Eavesdropping device
laser
Remember when we stick our ears to a door to eavesdropping…
with this device…dont need to do that no more…
This Laser eavesdropping device is more dangerous than good, because the main focus of this device is to listen to conversations on a room with windows. Why am i saying that it’s dangerous because no one would use it for a good deed, unless the government…yet this device is sold publicly…worst on the internet.
How it Works
“The laser transmitter, with its beam being in the invisible infrared waveband, has to be directed to a window of the room to be monitored. A portion of the laser beam will be reflected by the window pane. The receiving part of the LASER-3000 picks up the reflected laser and converts it into electric signals which, after filtering, are amplified and fed into headphones and/or recording devices.”
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GSM SIM Based Buggin Device
GSM bugging Device
Just dial the number…and they’re all ears.
Every professionals in TSCM industry would agree that this kind of bug is the most dangerous nowadays.
Because it uses a GSM SIM card to be able to listen in it’s surrounding area as far as10metres and a chargeable internal battery or maybe if you know how this thing works, you could modify it yourself to make it lasts longer or forever.
A bug with a GSM SIM card in it means that the listeners could listen in conversations taking place where the device had been planted from ANYwhere in the WORLD.
For your knowledge, this device comes with a very low price (of course it’s capable to make the target losses millions of dollars), Many found on the internet for as low as $90, in Indonesia they’re selling it as low as Rp.900.000,- .
..and why am i telling you this, just so you know what you’re dealing with…
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