Sunday, February 07, 2010

'Trojans' embedded in memory sticks?

Along with warnings that Chinese intelligence agents have been recruiting prostitutes to use to entrap United Kingdom business leaders during the coming trade fair and electronic exhibition season, the government also is issuing an alert that those free memory sticks or even digital cameras being distributed could include spy software, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. "They will be providing gifts of the very latest cameras and memory sticks. We are satisfied that these contain electronic 'trojan bugs' which will provide the Chinese with remote access to businessmen's computers ," said a new report prepared the Security Service Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure. The alert, a 14-page document with an introduction from MI5 chief Jonathan Evans, describes how the Chinese Secret Intelligence Service, CSIS, is planning to try to obtain the industry's secrets...read more

Not much different than what our gov't is doing here, except we don't get any gift.

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