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Originally Posted by sandman249
Cyber espionage?
FBI says that more than 3,000 companies that they had been the victims of cyber-attacks. China appears to be the biggest player! Cyber-espionage costs U.S. companies around $100 billion every year, according to a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The charges focused on trade secrets stolen from the solar power, steel and nuclear power industries.
Why Is the U.S. Going After Chinese Hackers? Jobs - NBC News
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Well was it CSIS the Canadian counterpart to the FBI or CSIS the ther lobby group
Since I belie it was Canadian CSIS that publish d the excat same report 2-3 years ago
Two years ago, CSIS director Dick Fadden made headlines by openly speaking of provincial cabinet members and municipal politicians coming under foreign influence. Though Fadden was cagey about the alleged foreign interference, he broadly suggested that China posed concerns.
While it does not name specific countries or companies, the newly released CSIS report says foreign entities involved in takeovers might try to exploit newfound control in an effort to make illegal transfers of technology "or to engage in other espionage and other foreign interference activities."
"CSIS expects that national security concerns related to foreign investment in Canada will continue to materialize, owing to the increasingly prominent role that (state-owned enterprises) are playing in the economic strategies of some foreign governments."
The report says CSIS continued in 2010-11 to investigate foreign interference — the attempt by governments or their agents to clandestinely influence Canadian policies and opinions, or to spy on and intimidate diaspora groups in Canada.
"Foreign interference is particularly nefarious because it can have the effect of disrupting the multicultural harmony that is central to Canadian identity," CSIS says.
The spy service report underscores other threats to Canada, including cyberattacks, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the lingering possibility of terrorist attacks in the post-9-11 era.
It notes that in January 2011 online attackers targeted the networks of the Finance Department and Treasury Board.
The main target of cyberspies is the aerospace and high-technology industry, with the oil-and-gas business and universities involved in research and development also eliciting interest, CSIS says. "From the attackers' perspective, it is significantly cheaper and often less difficult to steal research than to develop it."
In addition to pilfering intellectual property, state-sponsored attackers are also seeking information that would give them an advantage, such as inside knowledge of coming negotiations and the personalities involved, the report says.
"Foreign intelligence agencies use the Internet to conduct espionage operations, as this is a relatively low-cost and low-risk way to obtain classified, proprietary or other sensitive information."
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CSIS warns of foreign takeover risks in annual report - Politics - CBC News
That is why the FBI got their report from CSIS as well as worked along side CSIS just not the lobby group fort Center for Strategic and International Studies was not the agency the FBI worked with but the Canadian Security Intelligence Service..
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