Industrial espionage probes are being waged on companies that provide UK's national infrastructure and on similar organizations across Europe, security experts have warned. Mark Oram, head of information security knowledge department at the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), said the instances of political, economic and technical spying were more common than cyber-terrorism attacks. "We see frequent attacks on organizations for the purpose of intellectual property theft that we would not obviously classify as an attack on infrastructure," he said.

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