International spies are targeting sites and computers on the Internet, including government machines in numerous countries.
A group of hackers based almost exclusively in China has hacked into 1,295 computers in 103 countries. Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto revealed that cyber spies infiltrated systems in foreign ministries, embassies, international organizations, and the offices of the Dalai Lama. Thirty percent of the targeted computers could be considered "high-value" targets. No US government computers were compromised; however, the cyber spies broke into a NATO computer for half a day.
Less is known about cyber counterintelligence efforts presumably in place to take advantage of this kind of professional hacking.
The collective experience of UFO researchers over the past thirty years, as well as historical records released under the Freedom of Information Act, suggest one strategy may involve creating sticky virtual flypaper on the web.
It is likely that a mixture of real and dis-information is used to infiltrate networks of cyber-spies and their masters.
And I suspect that information is distributed into select networks of persons and organizations to create the appearance of duplicty on the part of certain intelligence officials.
It has been reported in the mainstream media that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) intensified efforts to work the Internet for counterintelligence purposes after testing the concept about three years ago.
One primary question remains in the tale of spies, lies, and polygraph tape passed by a senior intelligence official to website citizen-journalists: under what legal capacity can a senior government official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence pass private email messages to citizens of both the United States and Great Britain when the subject matter of the messages concerns allegations of possible foreign espionage against the United States?
I also wonder how many copies of the same have been intercepted by foreign intelligence services?
