Spies Among Us: How to Stop the Spies, Terrorists, Hackers, and Criminals You Don′t Even Know You Encounter Every Day

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There is something intoxicating and dangerous about the game of playing one party off against another," says Pearce, 55. "That probably kept his fires burning for years. It's a complex drive but one that was wonderful to play and to try to understand." I loved them! Lily wants to be the victor, so she’s trying every tactic to outmanoeuvre Elliott. I felt like I’d done a proper day’s work whilst also having a laugh because neither Damian or I are particularly serious."

There are several additional steps companies can take to minimize the risk of state-sponsored theft of intellectual property and sensitive information.The six-part Cold War-set series sees Damian Lewis play Nicholas Elliott, who works as an intelligence officer for MI6 and is left in turmoil when, in 1963, his close friend and colleague Kim Philby, played by Guy Pearce, decides to defect to Russia after secretly working as a double agent for the KGB.

known agents have access to the information.A preliminary answer is determined on some points, so the intelligence agencies are retasked to collect information specific to those points. As you can see, there is always an initial requirement, a collection effort, an analysis, and then an evaluation as to whether the requirement has been satisfied.This is a repeatable process, a science, that is used in all intelligence-gathering activities.Index Abdallah,Abraham, 214 access controls, vulnerability, 127 accidents costs of damage, 54 role in espionage, 113 threats posed by, 53–54 acts of God, 54–56 administrator skills, vulnerability, 210 agents. See also collectors; operatives definition, 5 desensitizing, 9–10 double, 6 mental weaknesses, 8–9 MICE (Money, Ideology, Coercion, Ego), 8–9 motivation, 8–9 recruiting, 8–10 special, 5–6 agents, recruiting China, 86, 87 disgruntled employees, 62 espionage simulation, 162 France, 90 Israel, 93–94 mental weaknesses, 8–10 MICE (Money, Ideology, Coercion, Ego), 8–10 motivation, 8–10 typical case, 7 Similarly to the Chinese, the Israelis also utilize ethnic targeting to recruit many of their agents. Many Jews have a strong devotion to Israel even though they may never have been there.To many, supporting the country means supporting the Jewish faith. Some U.S. citizens volunteer to serve in the Israeli army. If a person is willing to give his or her life for Israel, then stealing a little information is a small thing. Although the number of American Jews who actually commit espionage for Israel is extremely small, they do exist. Jonathan Pollard, for instance, was a Naval Intelligence analyst who sold top-secret military information to Israeli agents.There are also the recent charges of a Pentagon official who passed classified documents to Israel through a political lobbying group. Although relatively few Israeli espionage cases hit the media, it is extremely likely that Israel is every bit as active in this arena as are the French and the Chinese.They probably have agents and moles inside many U.S. and other foreign high-technology firms.They probably bug hotel rooms and tap telephone lines.Their agents are very bright and very motivated, and they usually get what they want.These are people who have infiltrated the very closed ranks of Arab terrorist organizations; to them, breaching a multibillion-dollar U.S. corporation is a walk in the park. Many American Jews justify Israeli industrial espionage actions with the argument that Israel has always been America’s strongest military ally.What they don’t recognize is the economic impact of these actions. Germany Although the U.S. government does not typically name it, Germany is widely known to be among the most active intelligence collectors in the world. Germany maintains a very large intelligence organization, called the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND).Although its primary focus was the Eastern Bloc, the BND has always engaged in a significant amount of industrial activity.After the breakup of the Eastern Bloc, it shifted most of its Cold War resources to industrial efforts. The BND continues to monitor international communications and tries very actively to obtain information that can help German companies.The agency has supported Siemens, one of Germany’s largest companies, by infiltrating high-technology companies around the world. Computers and peripherals plug into the UPS, which is plugged into an electrical outlet. Some UPSes also connect to computers through computer cable ports and instruct the computer to shut down gracefully when there is a power outage, saving all your work in the process. Other systems simply keep things going for varying lengths of time to allow you to save your data and shut down your machine. Depending on the type of UPS, they can keep your computers running for hours. UPSes also act as surge protectors.The strength of electrical currents varies as they travel through power lines. Occasionally, there are power spikes that can literally fry your computer.These spikes occur naturally and can be amplified by lightning strikes.To prevent these power spikes from ruining your machines when you don’t use UPSes, you can use power strips that have surge-protection capability. photographing the entire home first and then using those photos later to make sure nothing has been moved out of place.