State-sponsored industrial espionage became a bigger cyber-threat to companies in 2012, a report indicates.
Under present circumstances, such a conference would be tantamount to an industrial espionage field-day for Moscow.
Dr. Merrifield warned that the U.S. chemical industry is a primary focus for foreign industrial espionage.
Thanks to industrial espionage, the company has been bankrupted, assets stripped, bank accounts emptied.
Mr Mendonca de Barros claimed that the officials were the victims of political backstabbing and industrial espionage.
Cyberspecialists said the goals of hacking can include industrial espionage, insider trading and tracking potentially damaging information.
Security folk have been issuing warnings about the risks of industrial espionage by worms for some time.
Our two main suspects for this are high-level industrial espionage against Siemens and a kind of academic experiment.
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The inspection provisions will give foreign competitors an opportunity to garner sensitive data and conduct industrial espionage here.
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Officially-sponsored industrial espionage can waste taxpayers' money and sour relations with friendly countries.
This exposes American companies to a degree and to a type of industrial espionage never before encountered in this country.
These include the heightened risk of industrial espionage during inspections and the possible loss of proprietary business information through other means.
But the greatest cost could be the losses associated with industrial espionage.
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Renault, for example, claims to be a victim of industrial espionage.
The French and Japanese intelligence organizations are among the world's most aggressive in pursuing competitive advantages for their companies through official conduct of industrial espionage.
According to the authors, an industrial espionage campaign led by Chinese spy agencies has targeted companies making products as diverse as semiconductors, motor vehicles and jet-propulsion technology.
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Business aviation is also a powerful productivity booster: When traveling aboard business aircraft, employees can meet, plan and discuss proprietary information in a secure environment and without fear of industrial espionage.
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The process of allowing teams of foreigners to investigate, inspect and challenge all facets of private U.S. businesses could open them up to industrial espionage and the theft of their proprietary information.
Industrial espionage poses a number of national-security threats to the U.S., including the risk that stolen military technology will be handed to hostile countries like North Korea or Iran, the intelligence report concluded.
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Hence, the U.S., European nations, and Japan will have to declare hundreds of pharmaceutical plants, vaccine laboratories, and medical research centers which would then be pointlessly inspected, wasting our tax dollars and creating rich opportunities for industrial espionage.
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Last month, the U.S. counterintelligence chief issued a blunt critique of China's theft of American corporate intellectual property and economic data, calling China "the world's most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage" and warning that large-scale industrial espionage threatens U.S. competitiveness and national security.
Meanwhile, media in China continue to express anger at the US for accusing Beijing of "industrial cyber-espionage".
The threat of cyber leaks or espionage (industrial, state-sponsored or just malicious) is a powerful accelerant to an established underlying trend.
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The French government owns 15 percent of EADS, and its industrial policy consists of espionage, bribery and other actions to give its favored companies an unfair advantage over American firms.
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