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New Tricks of the Spying Trade

One of your execs is on a business trip overseas. While there, a foreign spy plants software on her laptop. Back at home she plugs her laptop into your company's computer network. By the time security experts get wind of it, your secrets are long gone. Welcome to the new world of espionage
 

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