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 […]
Harold “The Hoarder” Martin Indicted
Update on the NSA contractor who hoarded classified info for the past 20 YEARS. Can you imagine this as an episode on A&E’s Hoarders?? Government Contractor Facing Federal Indictment for Willful Retention of National Defense Information (DOJ) A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Harold Thomas Martin III, 52, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, with […]
How Did This Happen?
The media and others continue to be bewildered and still don’t get it. Here are a few clues to help them out: by Paul Genova I’m noticing that a lot of you aren’t graciously accepting the fact that your candidate lost. In fact you seem to be posting even more hateful things about those of us […]
FBI Employee Joey Chun Sentenced to Years for Acting as an Agent of China
Update on Joey Chun case. (FBI) Former FBI Employee Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 24 Months In Prison For Acting As An Agent Of China Kun Shan Chun, a/k/a “Joey Chun,” Provided Sensitive FBI Information to the Chinese Government Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mary B. McCord, […]
Harold Martin, government contractor for NSA, arrested for taking classified info home
New spy case? Harold Thomas Martin, 51 year old Navy vet working at Booz Allen on contract to NSA in Maryland stashed highly classified information (including SCI material) in his home in Glen Burnie and was secretly arrested on August 27. No indication yet that he gave the information to a foreign state or organization. Will […]
Management lessons from the espionage of Ana Montes
(CSO) As companies shop for expensive IT security software packages, hire information assurance specialists, or enter into contracts with IT security firms to provide up-to-date cyber threat intelligence, they should not overlook the threats posed to company data from traditional espionage tradecraft. Not even the most robust computer security measures or the latest behavioral analytic/machine […]
FBI Employee Pleads Guilty to Acting in the US as an Agent of the Chinese Government
(DOJ) Defendant Collected and Caused Sensitive FBI Information to be Provided to the Chinese Government Kun Shan Chun, a native of the People’s Republic of China and a naturalized U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty today to a criminal information charging him with acting in the United States as an agent of China without providing prior notice […]
Defense Contractor Arrested for Selling Satellite Secrets to Undercover Agent Posing as Russian Spy
Gregory Allen Justice, 49, who worked for Boeing Satellite Systems, was arrested for his attempts to sell spy satellite information to a person he believed to be a Russian intelligence officer. (DOJ) A Culver City, California, man was arrested yesterday on federal charges of economic espionage and violations of the Arms Export Control Act for his attempts […]
The man who seduced the 7th Fleet
In perhaps the worst national-security breach of its kind to hit the Navy since the end of the Cold War, Leonard Glen Francis doled out sex and money to a shocking number of people in uniform who fed him classified material about U.S. warship and submarine movements. Some also leaked him confidential contracting information and even […]
Navy man admits to illegally retaining photos taken inside a nuclear submarine
(DOJ) Kristian Saucier, 29, of Arlington, Vermont, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill of the District of Connecticut to one count of unauthorized possession and retention of national defense information. The guilty plea was announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney Deirdre M. Daly of […]
Banker Sentenced in Connection with Conspiracy to Work for Russian Intelligence
(DOJ) Evgeny Buryakov, aka Zhenya, 41, was sentenced to 30 months in prison today for conspiring to act in the United States as an agent of the Russian Federation without providing prior notice to the Attorney General. The sentence was announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara […]
Want a security clearance? Feds will now check your Facebook and Twitter first
(Washington Post) The government will start scanning Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media accounts of thousands of federal employees and contractors applying and re-applying for security clearances in a first-ever policy released Friday. Federal investigators looking at applicants’ backgrounds to determine their trustworthiness will not ask for passwords or log in to private accounts, limiting their searches […]
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 […]
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