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

DICE Security Update

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 […]

7 potential security concerns for wearables

(Network World) Wearables are rapidly invading the workplace in much the same way that smartphones did. Fitness trackers, smartwatches, head-mounted displays and other new form factors are beginning to capture the public imagination. Sales of wearable electronic devices topped 232 million in 2015, and Gartner forecasts they’ll rise 18.4% this year, when another 274.6 million devices […]

U.S. Navy officer suspected of passing secrets to Taiwan, China

In this age of globalization, loyalty to which country can be a tricky thing. (Reuters)  A U.S. Navy flight officer with knowledge of sensitive American intelligence collection methods faces espionage charges over suspicions he passed secret information to Taiwan and possibly to China, U.S. officials said. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the […]

Security Violations

How many different security violations including ignoring and disregarding security and the advice of security officers can you find while reading about Hillary Clinton’s email situation? If a regular employee at your national security organization or contracting company did or said these kinds of things, would they still have a job? How much trouble would […]

Ray Semko to speak at NSI’s Impact 2016 Conference on April 6

This year’s Impact 2016 conference run by the National Security Institute will end with a bang as security awareness speaker Ray Semko presents his Defensive Information to Counter Espionage (DICE) briefing to attendees as part of the last session of the conference on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 10:45 am. The conference is being held […]

North Korea Nukes Washington, DC

As a reminder that America has a host of enemies out there, North Korea just released a new video showing it destroying our nation’s capitol. North Korea Nukes Washington in Propaganda Video, Threatens South Korea (AFP) North Korea released a new propaganda video Saturday showing a nuclear strike on Washington and then threatened South Korea […]

How Mega-Breaches Could Literally Kill You

China hacks security clearance information

(ABC) Although it took a while for the whole story to emerge, we learned that more than 80 million customers of Anthem were exposed in a giant breach that included Social Security numbers (SSNs) and other kinds of sensitive personally identifiable information. A scant three months later, in March 2015, Premera began notifying 11 million members […]

ODNI warns of ‘human targeting’ in counterintelligence war

(Federal News Radio) Just because a federal employee or public sector worker doesn’t have a security clearance doesn’t make them less of a foreign intelligence target. In the latest video installment of the “Know the Risk — Raise Your Shield” campaign, which is backed by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center [under the Office of the […]

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. […]

Counterintelligence app lets troops in Europe flag suspicious acts

(US Army) The U.S. Army Europe counterintelligence division has officially released a new smartphone application to facilitate the “if you see something, say something” reporting process for service members, civilians, contractors and Family members in Europe. “iReport was developed to take advantage of today’s smartphone culture. It is an application that we want everyone to have […]

Navy Civilian Engineer Sentenced to 11 Years for Attempted Espionage

Mostafa Ahmed Awwad

(FBI) Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 36, of Yorktown, Virginia, was sentenced today to 132 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson of the Eastern District of Virginia for attempted espionage relating to his attempt to provide schematics of the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford to Egypt while serving as a Navy engineer. […]

The Company Man: Protecting America’s Secrets

(FBI) Economic espionage is a problem that costs the American economy billions of dollars annually and puts our national security at risk. To raise awareness of the issue, the FBI and the National Counterintelligence and Security Center have launched a nationwide campaign and released a short film aimed at educating anyone with a trade secret […]