CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/16 Sept) — The New People’s Army’s Front 88 in the hinterlands of Bukidnon province has admitted to arresting six peddlers of sleeping mats for alleged espionage.
In a telephone interview Friday, Ariel Inda Magbanwag, spokesperson for NPA’s Bukidnon-North Central Mindanao Area, said the peddlers, reported missing for over a month now, were caught doing surveillance work while selling their wares door-to-door.
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As Ottawa fosters closer economic ties with Beijing, the news that a Conservative MP exchanged flirtatious emails with a reporter from China’s state-run news agency has raised questions about whether Chinese spies have developed relationships with Canadian officials.
Last week, a series of emails came to light that appeared to reveal a close friendship between Bob Dechert, MP for Ontario riding Mississauga-Erindale, and Shi Rong, a Canada-based reporter for China’s state news agency, Xinhua.
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American Superconductor Corp. alleged that a Chinese maker of wind turbines hired a former employee to steal its technology. The Devens company registered a complaint with officials in China and is seeking criminal complaints against Sinovel Wind Group. The former employee was arrested in Austria in July and charged with economic espionage. The former staffer stole software source code used to control turbines and passed it to Sinovel, the company said. Sinovel has denied those claims.
The Israel Police have arrested 22 people suspected of distributing and installing smartphone bugging software. The police searched 11 bugging equipment businesses and private investigators. The gag order on the case was lifted today. The Police National Fraud Squad and Computer Crimes Division carried out the investigation.
The suspects allegedly distributed and installed the bugging equipment, and even advertised their product on the Internet. They are suspected of planting bugging software, bugging, and invasion of privacy.
The police say that the software was designed to be used in two ways on smartphones: controlling spyware, which sent information about all incoming and outgoing calls and SMS. On the basis of this information, the victims’ smartphones could be controlled to hear conversations in real time as well as turn them into remote listening devices to bug the surroundings. Another software sent this and other information, such as GPS data, to a special Gmail address set up for the listener.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news – www.globes-online.com – on September 19, 2011
BANGKOK (AFP) – A Thai court on Tuesday jailed three men, a Cambodian, a Vietnamese and a local, for two years each for espionage, officials said.
The trio were arrested in June in Kantharalak District, near the disputed border with Cambodia, amid a bitter land dispute between Thailand and its neighbour.
Police said at the time that they were carrying maps with military facilities marked on them, and two of the men were using the illegal stimulant methamphetamine.
The Thai was jailed for two years and four months while the Cambodian was handed two years and three months and the Vietnamese received two years, Kantharalak District Court Director Thongchanai Kothajit said by telephone.
