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 […]
Navy engineer indicted for trying to sell secrets
(Navy Times) A naturalized American citizen working for the Navy was arrested Friday for attempting to sell technical information about the nuclear aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford to an agent of the Egyptian government. The agent, however, was a federal undercover agent working for the FBI. According to documents from the Justice Department, a federal […]
Politically-Challenged Students
In cyberspace, no one can hear me SCREAM!! Take a look at this recent video of students smart (?) enough to get into college:
Seeking A Way Out: The Jeffery Delisle Espionage Case, Part III
(NOIR For USA) When the prison doors shut on insider spy and former Canadian Navy Sub-Lieutenant Jeffery Delisle, he left behind four children and a budding relationship with a woman who loved him. Delisle had a history of marital and financial problems that included declaring bankruptcy and discovering his wife’s adultery, which created the conditions […]
“They Had a Photo of My Children”: The Jeffery Delisle Case, Part II
(NOIR For USA) If it was former Canadian Navy Sub-Lieutenant Jeffery Delisle’s intention to free himself of the burden of his financial troubles and to take some decisive action to counter his sense of helplessness when faced with the collapse of his marriage, any relief he may have felt after volunteering his services to the […]
Social media could become part of security clearance process
(Federal News Radio) For the past six months, the Director of National Intelligence has been trying to determine whether the government should do Google searches on people who hold security clearances. Their question: Could publicly available information — the type that pops up when you type a name into a search box — tip off […]
Russian government gathers intelligence with malware
(CNET) The Russian government uses malware to extract sensitive information from companies and governments, not for financial gain but for intelligence gathering, according a new report by FireEye. Malicious software designed to steal sensitive information from businesses and foreign governments is made in Russia and supported by the Russian government, a security research firm reported Tuesday. […]
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, […]
A Psychological Perfect Storm: The Jeffery Delisle Case, Part I
(NOIR For USA) By all accounts, there’s nothing exceptional about former Canadian Navy Sub-Lieutenant Jeffery Delisle, certainly nothing that would suggest a future as a convicted insider spy. A high school friend described him as the “sort of person who just blended into the background.” If he was notable in high school for anything, it was […]
Flashlight app threat and the dangers of “free”
The following video is making its rounds because it warns people about the dangers of downloading free flashlight apps on your smartphone. The makers of these apps get your permission to access everything on your phone—and then that info gets sent to its makers in Russia, China and India. Nice. They could turn on your […]
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 […]
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