New National Intelligence Strategy
(DNI) The Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper today unveiled the 2014 National Intelligence Strategy – the blueprint that will drive the priorities for the nation’s 17 Intelligence Community components over the next four years. The National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) is one of the most important documents for the Intelligence Community (IC) as it […]
Chinese hacked U.S. military contractors, Senate panel finds
(Reuters) Hackers associated with the Chinese government have repeatedly infiltrated the computer systems of U.S. airlines, technology companies and other contractors involved in the movement of U.S. troops and military equipment, a U.S. Senate panel has found. The Senate Armed Services Committee’s year-long probe, concluded in March but made public on Wednesday, found the military’s […]
Defense Contractor Benjamin Bishop sentenced to 87 months for giving classified info to Chinese girlfriend
Hawaii Man Sentenced to 87 Months Imprisonment for Communicating Classified National Defense Information to Unauthorized Person Wednesday, September 17, 2014 (DOJ) Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney Florence T. Nakakuni for the District of Hawaii announced today that Benjamin Pierce Bishop, 60, a former Honolulu, Hawaii, civilian defense contractor […]
GAO Report shows why security clearances are revoked
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) just issued a report called, PERSONNEL SECURITY CLEARANCES: Additional Guidance and Oversight Needed at DHS and DOD to Ensure Consistent Application of Revocation Process (pdf). In it are two interesting charts showing the top reasons those in DOD and DHS with security clearances got them terminated. What to watch […]
T-Mobile Accuses Huawei of Espionage
(New York Times) T-Mobile has filed a lawsuit against the Chinese smartphone maker Huawei Technologies, accusing the manufacturer of stealing technology, including part of a robot’s arm, from T-Mobile’s Bellevue, Wash., headquarters. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Seattle, T-Mobile said that employees of Huawei, previously a T-Mobile supplier, gained illicit access to a T-Mobile […]
Building a Better Mole Trap
(Newsweek) The continuing leaks of National Security Agency material by Edward Snowden so dominate the news that you don’t hear much these days about Cold War–style moles burrowing through the CIA, FBI and Defense Department on behalf of foreign spy services. Yet they keep surfacing, without much notice: At least 20 Americans have been arrested on […]
Chinese engineer accused of stealing trade secrets from GE unit
(Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel) A Chinese engineer who worked in Waukesha for a subsidiary of GE Healthcare stole about 2.4 million files of trade secrets and other confidential company information and sent it to China, according to GE and the FBI. Jun Xie, 41, who joined the medical equipment giant in 2008, had been suspended and […]
John Walker, Navy spy for the KGB, is dead
“It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.” —Retired FBI agent Robert Hunter, lead investigator on the case (ABC-13, Virginia Beach) The man who masterminded what’s been called the biggest espionage leak in U.S. Navy history has died. John Anthony Walker, Jr. died Thursday at the Federal Correctional Institute in Butner, North Carolina, where he […]
How a Chinese National Gained Access to Arizona’s Terror Center
Read this investigation and see how many bells go off in your mind re security indicators. (ProPublica) Intelligence Gap: How a Chinese National Gained Access to Arizona’s Terror Center The un-vetted computer engineer plugged into law enforcement networks and a database of 5 million Arizona drivers in a possible breach that was kept secret for years. . […]
2014 DSS Targeting Trends Report
The Defense Security Service has published its 2014 Targeting US Technologies: A Trend Analysis of Cleared Industry Reporting (pdf) Executive Summary Fiscal year 2013 (FY13) saw a continuation of the past decade’s steady rise in reported foreign collection attempts to obtain unauthorized access to sensitive or classified information and technology resident in the U.S. cleared industrial […]
New revelations about Cuban spy Ana Montes
(Miami Herald) For 16 years, Ana Belen Montes spied for Cuba from increasingly responsible positions at the Defense Intelligence Agency. If Havana has ever run a higher level or more valuable mole inside the American defense establishment, that has never been revealed. When she was arrested in late September 2001, Montes was about the equivalent in rank […]
Recent Trade Secret Cases
Kentucky Man Convicted of Theft of Trade Secrets Sentenced in Yakima Federal Court . . . . Ward was arrested on November 11, 2011, in Floyds Knobs, Indiana, following his transfer of a digital copy of an unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) maintenance manual to an undercover agent for $10,000. The manual pertained to a proprietary product […]
“Sacred Honor Lost” Recent Cases
Recent cases security officers should know about: Embezzlement/Theft Woman Sentenced for Defrauding Former Employer of More Than $440,000 while working as the bookkeeper and accountant for Telsar Laboratories, Inc. (TLI), she fraudulently caused electronic deposits to be made to her own accounts and also caused fraudulent payments to be made to her by check out […]
Court Upholds ex-Northrop Engineer’s Sentence for Espionage
(Courthouse News) An engineer convicted of selling stealth technology to China failed to convince the 9th Circuit that the statements he made to federal agents over a week of voluntary interrogations should have been kept out of his espionage trial. The federal appeals court on Monday affirmed Noshir S. Gowadia’s convictions and 32-year prison sentence for […]
Pentagon security clearance holders owe $730M in taxes
Foreign intelligence services look for government employees and contractors in debt. This new report will make them realize the field is wide open for targeting. (CNN) About 83,000 Defense Department employees and contractors with security clearances to protect the nation’s secrets have delinquent federal tax debts totaling $730 million, according to an internal government audit. The […]
Canadian resident charged in U.S. for directing Chinese spy ring
This image shows a page of the flight test plan for the F-35, the world’s most advanced multi-role fighter aircraft, from an internal company document that Su Bin allegedly acquired and translated before passing on to contacts in China. (Globe and Mail) A Chinese man accused of being the “directing mind” behind a corporate-espionage conspiracy […]
10 Most Alarming IT Security Attacks Of 2014 You Should Know
From Live-Tech. Here’s the list but read the rest for more details. Google Glass for snatching passwords Attack against the virtual desktops Abusing Microsoft Kerberos Remote car network attacks Data theft from point-of-sale devices USB Stick malware Mobile carrier’s control code Free cloud service trials to inject Botnets Mobile device management software Attacks against realistic […]
Cyber espionage by Google Glass is the next major security threat
(Computing) For many, Google Glass and other wearable devices might appear to be the latest overhyped fad. However, when smartphones first arrived, few would have suspected they’d become such an integral part of working life in the modern enterprise. The same could be said for tablets, which are seeing more applications added to match demand for […]
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