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 […]
Listening devices at Ford HQ; fired employee suspected
Listening devices found at Ford HQ; recently fired engineer investigated (Detroit News) The FBI searched Ford Motor Co.’s world headquarters while investigating one of the automaker’s engineers and seized listening devices, computers and financial records, according to search warrants obtained by The News on Thursday. A lawyer for the mechanical engineer said Ford’s security team feared […]
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 […]
Chinese hackers try to access info on federal employees getting security clearances
Hat tip to Mary Beth (New York Times) Chinese hackers in March broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees, according to senior American officials. They appeared to be targeting the files on tens of thousands of employees who have applied for top-secret […]
Engineer Faces 20 Years for Economic Espionage
This man recruited two DuPont engineers to steal secrets. (AP) A Northern California chemical engineer is facing more than 20 years in prison for a rare economic-espionage conviction for selling to China the technology that creates a white pigment. A jury convicted Walter Liew, 56, of selling DuPont Co.’s secret recipe for making cars, paper […]
Chinese National Arrested for Conspiring to Steal Trade Secrets
Children of the Corn (FBI) United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt announced today the arrest and indictment of Mo Yun, for conspiracy to steal trade secrets. Mo Hailong was previously arrested in December of 2013. The Superseding Indictment alleges that from on or about January of 2007, to on or about December of 2012, Mo Hailong, […]
Chinese National Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Fraudulently Obtain Technology Products from U.S. Companies
(FBI) Zhenchun Huang, a/k/a Ted Huang, age 51, a Chinese national and naturalized U.S. citizen, formerly residing in Clarksville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to false personation of a federal employee and obstruction of justice, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain technology products from U.S. companies for export to China. According to his plea […]
Need to Know Recent Cases – 2 July
BRIBERY/KICKBACKS Prison Sentences and More Than $500,000 in Fines For Contractors Who Bribed the ‘Godfather’ of Camp Pendleton The presidents of two government contracting companies, as well as the companies themselves, were sentenced today for bribing the so-called “Godfather” of Camp Pendleton in exchange for millions of dollars in construction and service contracts at Camp […]
Spying is “Professional Suicide”
A military officer says in this video that when he began spying for the Russian intelligence service, it was “professional suicide” and that “every day since then I die–every day–knowing what I’ve done.” –Jeffery Delisle, 43 years old. Note his severe emotional distress over discovering his wife had an affair, the betrayal of which he claims […]
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