Code red: the cyber spy threat

By Dylan Welch
Updated November 10 2012 - 12:14am, first published September 23 2011 - 3:15pm

On June 1, 2009, messages with the heading ''China and Climate Change'' dropped into the email inboxes of five US State Department officers. The five officers, working in the Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change, were involved in preparing for delicate bilateral climate change talks in Beijing in several days.