Talk about spyware versus spyware. Authorities in Isreal have arrested dozens of people, including high level executives of multinational corporations, in what increasingly is developing into the Internet Trojan spyware custerfluck of the year. Only on the Internet can a Trojan horse disgorge its contents in several places at once, and not only best the enemy but report back on what they are doing to Troy HQ.

But let’s start at the beginning. Amnon and Varda Jackont are a husband and wife writing team living in Israel. Amnon also teaches at a local university. Amnon’s newest novel, “L for Lies”, hit the presses in August of this past year. However, prior to that he noticed that chapters from the unreleased book had hit the Internet. At first he thought that some of his students had pulled the stunt, however as more and varied material of his appeared online, often altered in a way to defame or embarrass him, the Jackonts put two and two together and realized that someone was accessing their computer.

The Jackonts immediately suspected…

[Corporate Espionage: International Giants Implicated in Israeli Industrial Spy Ring, Continued]