Former CIA Officer Charged With Spying for China
(DOJ) Former CIA Case Officer Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Espionage and Retention of National Defense Information The Justice Department announced today that Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, of Hong Kong, was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of Virginia with: One count of conspiracy to gather or deliver national […]
Two Businessmen Charged With Conspiring to Commit Economic Espionage for Benefit of Chinese Manufacturing Company
(DOJ) Two businessmen, including one who is a Chinese national, have been indicted on charges alleging that they conspired to commit economic espionage and steal trade secrets from a business in the United States on behalf of a company in China that was engaged in manufacturing buoyancy materials for military and civilian uses. The charges were announced […]
Chinese Spies Engaged in Massive Theft of U.S. Technology
This article makes me livid! I have spent my entire D*I*C*E career talking about what is referenced in this article. Yet in this era of globalization, there are some organizations who are afraid of what I say because I tell their employees what China is doing and who they are using to do it. If your organization is […]
The Many Security Problems of John Weed
Count them. From the affidavit: “civilian supervisors at TASC, his military supervisors at the NRO, and his military and civilian coworkers-was that WEED felt the rules did not apply to him.” What can I say, another person who really needed to be DICE’d. FBI raids home of fired spy agency contractor suspected of leaking code on […]
Former Defense Contractor Convicted of Unlawfully Retaining Classified Information
This guy actually downloaded highly sensitive classified information onto a CD, labeled the disc “My Secret TACAMO Stuff” and took the CD home where it sat unprotected for years. REALLY?! He spent 18 years with a security clearance–did he never sit through a security awareness briefing? This guy and anyone like him needs to be […]
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the DOJ and FBI
“Sacred Honor Lost” by those in the DOJ, FBI and elsewhere that allowed this abuse of our American system to happen. Read the Memo: HPSCI Memo: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (pdf)
The Chinese Intelligence Threat is Real
The threat from Chinese intelligence is real. Here are cases just in the past year you should know about: 53 year old Jerry Chun Shing Lee, aka Zhen Cheng Li, naturalized US citizen and a former CIA Case Officer focusing on East Asian targets, who had been working in Hong Kong as a Security Officer […]
Former CIA Officer Arrested for Retaining Classified Information
If you just read this affidavit, a naturalized US citizen who was a case officer for the CIA from 1994 to 2007 retained classified information in his home. Just like Clinton, former CIA Directors Deutch and Petraeus, Harold Martin and others did. However, news sources are saying he may have given his info to the […]
NSA Employee Pleads Guilty to Willful Retention of National Defense Information
(DOJ, 1 DEC 2017) Nghia Hoang Pho, 67, of Ellicott City, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to willful retention of national defense information. Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Dana J. Boente, Acting U.S. Attorney Stephen M. Schenning for the District of Maryland and Special Agent in Charge Gordon B. Johnson of the FBI’s Baltimore […]
Defense Contractor Kevin Mallory arrested for spying for China
Mallory’s home in Leesburg, VA gets surrounded by agents. Records show he paid $1,156,000 for the home in 2005. Virginia Man Arrested and Charged With Espionage (DOJ) Kevin Patrick Mallory, 60, of Leesburg, Virginia, made his initial appearance in federal court today on charges that he transmitted Top Secret and Secret documents to an agent […]
Hizballah Spies Caught Operating in the US
Here’s a list of some of the operations these spies conducted: searching for weapons suppliers in the U.S. who could provide firearms to support IJO (Hizballah’s foreign intelligence service) operations identifying individuals affiliated with the Israeli Defense Force gathering information regarding operations and security at airports in the U.S. and elsewhere surveilling U.S. military and […]
Navy Officer gets 6 years for disclosing classified info, failing to report foreign contacts
(Virginian-Pilot) A naval flight officer who pleaded guilty last month to violating the federal Espionage Act will serve six years in confinement. Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin, 40, also will be dismissed from the Navy under the sentence issued late Friday by military judge Cmdr. Robert Monahan, who deliberated for four hours. Monahan sentenced Lin to […]
What kind of security awareness program do you have?
SANS has just issued their 2017 Security Awareness Report. In it, they identified five levels of security awareness programs in organizations. Which level is your organization at? Non-Existent: A program doesn’t exist. Employees have no idea that they are a target, that their actions have a direct impact to the security of the organization, don’t know […]
Seven People Charged With Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets For Benefit of Chinese Manufacturing Company
(DOJ News Release, 24 May 2017) WASHINGTON – A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging seven individuals with conspiring to steal trade secrets from a business in the U.S. on behalf of a company in China that was engaged in manufacturing a high-performance, naval-grade product for military and civilian uses. On May 23, 2017, two defendants […]
Defense engineer pleads guilty after trying to forge ‘The Americans’-type pact with phony Russian spy
(Los Angeles Times) It t looked easy enough on the FX television series “The Americans,” in which a pair of married Russian spies, posing as U.S. citizens, enlist the aid of Americans to steal national intelligence secrets. It’s not so simple in real life, however. That’s what a defense contracting engineer learned the hard way […]
Hackers Hide Cyberattacks in Social Media Posts
(New York Times) . . . While corporations and government agencies around the world are training their staff to think twice before opening anything sent by email, hackers have already moved on to a new kind of attack, targeting social media accounts, where people are more likely to be trusting. Pentagon officials are increasingly worried that […]
State Department Employee Arrested and Charged With Concealing Extensive Contacts With Foreign Agents
(DOJ) A federal complaint was unsealed today charging Candace Marie Claiborne, 60, of Washington, D.C., and an employee of the U.S. Department of State, with obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to the FBI, both felony offenses, for allegedly concealing numerous contacts that she had over a period of years with foreign intelligence agents. […]
Ray Semko at Impact 2017 Conference
Ray Semko, The D*I*C*E Man, will be giving the rousing, closing DICE security awareness presentation called, “Making Security Great Again” at this year’s IMPACT 2017 Conference sponsored by the National Security Institute. The conference will take place at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, VA from Monday, April 24 to Wednesday, April 26. There’s a great […]
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