Cybersecurity: Hackers ‘hit’ US water treatment systems
Our nation’s infrastructure, water lines, hackers, Russia, multiple attacks. Not good. Read on: From the BBC, 21 November 2011: Hackers are alleged to have destroyed a pump used to pipe water to thousands of homes in a US city in Illinois. Hackers with access to the utility’s network are thought to have broken the pump […]
USMC 236th Birthday
Great video celebrating the 236th birthday of the US Marines today. I can’t embed it but you can watch it here. From the USMC website, the Marines prayer which I’ve separated into bullet points because they are a good reminder for us all in work and home: The Marines’ Prayer Almighty Father, whose command is […]
US Army soldier charged with attempted espionage
BAD DICE: A 22-year-old US Army military policeman, Specialist William Colton Millay, has been formally charged with attempted espionage. According to Reuters, Millay “knowingly making false statements to Army Counterintelligence officials regarding the full scope of his attempts to contact foreign governments and the nature of information he disclosed. He is also accused of soliciting […]
Trusted insider charged with corporate espionage
An local ABC TV news station in Chicago is reporting on a recent case of 2009 Cornell University graduate Yihao Ben Pu, a 24-year-old man holding both a US and Chinese passport who “was once a trusted technology employee at Citadel Investments, once of the world’s largest hedge fund managers. Pu is charged with attempting to […]
REPORT: Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace
The National Counterintelligence Executive has issued their latest report to Congress on foreign economic collection and industrial espionage called “Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace.” Executive Summary Foreign economic collection and industrial espionage against the United States represent significant and growing threats to the nation’s prosperity and security. Cyberspace—where most business activity and […]
Operation Ghost Stories
Just in time for Halloween, the FBI has released documents, videos and photographs of their 10+ year investigation into the Russian SVR espionage agents operating here in the United States, codenamed “Operation Ghost Stories”. Ghosts, goblins, witches and vampires are nothing compared to the frightening reality of Russian intelligence officers spying against the United States […]
The Value of Wall Street
Wow. Just came across this (click on image to see it full size) . It’s powerful and says it all about our nation of moochers and looters. Watch out, Atlas is Shrugging. If you don’t understand this, I highly encourage you to read the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. There is a reason this book, written […]
Introducing DICE-TV
For those of you who need a D*I*C*E fix, or security officers needing a quick awareness minute for their employees, or if you need to show a sample of my briefings to your manager, or if you just like looking at my pretty face (?), my D*I*C*E Channel on YouTube has begun. My graphics/video guru […]
Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Economic Espionage
From ABC News, 18 Oct 2011: A Chinese national has pleaded guilty to economic espionage for providing trade secrets from agricultural firms Dow and Cargill to the Chinese government. Kexue Huang, pleaded guilty to one charge of economic espionage before a federal judge in Indiana, admitting that while he worked at Dow AgroSciences LLC and […]
BAD DICE: American arrested for planning to blow up the Pentagon
A 26-year-old American, born in the United States, living in big house in an upscale suburb of Boston with his parents (an engineer and healthworker), was a star soccer player in high school and graduated at the top of his class, received a scholarship to Boston’s Northeastern University and graduated from there in 2008 with a degree in physics, and […]
BAD DICE: Jonathan Pollard – a spy for Australia?
It’s time to start calling them like we see them: Good Dice and Bad Dice. The first Bad Dice has to be Jonathan Pollard. It’s been revealed that when Pollard first starting spying, he provided classified information to — AUSTRALIA! But they turned him down so he tried another country, Israel, to see if he […]
Brian Kelley, counterintelligence expert, RIP
It was truly a shock to hear that counterintelligence expert and instructor Brian Kelley unexpectantly passed away at the young age of 68. No doubt the toll of the years of stress he went through being falsely accused as a Russian spy played a part in his unfortunate passing far too soon. Michelle Van Cleave, the former chief of […]
How Semko’s D*I*C*E talk “played in Peoria”
Ray Semko presented a D*I*C*E briefing in Peoria, IL, sponsored by CIAN, Inc., an information security company. A local Peoria, IL news station covered Ray Semko’s presentation to CIAN, Inc. and interviewed him: And the accompanying story: The D.I.C.E. Man Cometh By Joe Bennett, Central Illinois News Center A former counter intelligence agent came to […]
World Renowned Security Expert Ray Semko to Address Peoria, Illinois Businesses
FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICER TO SPEAK ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF INFORMATION SECURITY AND TERRORISM THREATS IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS March 15, 2011 Peoria, IL – CIAN, Inc. is pleased to announce that renowned US security expert, Ray Semko, also known as the “D*I*C*E* man, is coming to Peoria May 26, 2011. Semko, a retired Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) […]
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