DICE Security News Update – 2 May 2016
Former TVA manager admits Chinese government paid him for nuclear secrets (Knoxville News Sentinel) A former senior TVA manager has admitted he was paid by the Chinese government for nuclear technological information while working for the utility, court records unsealed Friday show. Ching Ning Guey has struck a deal to plead guilty to a charge of […]
Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Hack into U.S. Defense Contractors’ Systems to Steal Sensitive Military Information
(DOJ) A Chinese national pleaded guilty today to participating in a years-long conspiracy to hack into the computer networks of major U.S. defense contractors, steal sensitive military and export-controlled data and send the stolen data to China. Su Bin, also known as Stephen Su and Stephen Subin, 50, a citizen and resident of the People’s […]
Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets
Children of the Corn The Chinese Corn Case has surfaced again: (DOJ) Mo Hailong, aka Robert Mo, 46, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to steal trade secrets before U.S. District Judge Stephanie M. Rose of the Southern District of Iowa, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin E. […]
22.1 Million People Compromised in Hack of Government Personnel Data
(New York magazine) Last month we learned that hackers stole the personal data of at least 4 million current and former government workers, and a few days later it was reported that every federal employee might be affected. Now that number has expanded to include people who merely know someone who tried to work for the […]
Officials: Chinese had access to U.S. security clearance data for one year
(Washington Post) The recently disclosed breach of the Office of Personnel Management’s security-clearance computer system took place a year ago, giving Chinese government intruders access to sensitive data for a year, according to new information. The considerable lag time between breach and discovery means that the adversary had more time to pull off a cyber-heist of […]
Chinese hack included security-clearance database
You’ve heard me say it before: it just gets worse and worse! China now has your SF-86 and background investigations. And who knows who they will sell this info to. (Washington Post) The Chinese breach of the Office of Personnel Management network was wider than first acknowledged, and officials said Friday that a database holding sensitive […]
6 Chinese Charged with Economic Espionage, Theft of Trade Secrets for Benefit of PRC Govt
The Gang of Six: Zhang, Pang, Gang, Zhang, Zhou and Chen. You have GOT to read: The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury Chinese Professors Among Six Defendants Charged with Economic Espionage and Theft Of Trade Secrets for Benefit of People’s Republic of China; Chinese Professors Alleged to Have […]
RAY RECOMMENDS: The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
This is the book I talked about at my presentation at the IMPACT Conference in Chantilly, VA: The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury UPDATE: Nothing like this has ever happened before — I tried every which way but Facebook security censors wouldn’t let me cross-post this […]
Businesses warned about new espionage campaigns from of China
(CSO) Ongoing investigations by the FBI have revealed a group that has been compromising personal and sensitive business information from U.S. commercial and government networks in recent weeks. In a memo sent to security leaders and community insiders, the agency warns that the data breaches were done “through cyber espionage” and that the tools used […]
Federal Employee Provided China with Sensitive Information on US Dams
(Washington Free Beacon) A federal weather service employee charged with stealing sensitive infrastructure data from an Army Corps of Engineers database met a Chinese government official in Beijing, according to court documents that reveal the case to be part of an FBI probe of Chinese economic espionage. Xiafen “Sherry” Chen, an employee of the National […]
Defense Contractor charged with trying to take US military documents to China
(Reuters) A former Connecticut resident and Chinese citizen who allegedly worked on the F135 engine was charged with trying to take sensitive documents about military technology to China, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Tuesday. Yu Long was en route to China in November via Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey where customs […]
Sophisticated Chinese cyberespionage group identified
(Washington Post) A coalition of security researchers has identified a Chinese cyberespionage group that appears to be the most sophisticated of any publicly known Chinese hacker unit and targets not only U.S. and Western government agencies but also dissidents inside and outside China. . . . . . . In a new report issued Tuesday, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. . […]
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 […]
Chinese citizen charged with plotting to steal data from U.S. defense contractors
(Seattle Times) A Chinese citizen was charged with plotting to steal data from U.S. defense contractors, including a successful hack of Boeing’s computer system, amid an expanding crackdown on industrial espionage by China. Su Bin, the owner of a Chinese aviation-technology company with an office in Canada, conspired with two unidentified individuals in China to break […]
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