Threats to the Homeland
(FBI) The FBI Director’s statement before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Good afternoon Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member Carper, and members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the current threats to the homeland and our efforts to address new challenges, including terrorists’ use […]
Former DuPont Employee Sentenced for Stealing Trade Secrets
(FBI) A second former DuPont employee—Edward Schulz—was recently sentenced for his role in a conspiracy led by a South Korean company to steal trade secrets related to Kevlar, a trademarked product developed and sold by DuPont. Kevlar, an incredibly strong synthetic fiber developed by the U.S.-based DuPont 50 years ago, is used around the world in […]
22.1 Million People Compromised in Hack of Government Personnel Data
(New York magazine) Last month we learned that hackers stole the personal data of at least 4 million current and former government workers, and a few days later it was reported that every federal employee might be affected. Now that number has expanded to include people who merely know someone who tried to work for the […]
Encryption useless when OPM hires foreign contractors
“You’ve reached the IT Help Desk. How can I help you today?” Who needs to hack into a system when you are given the keys to the front door? Let’s cut to the chase of this Ars Technica article and highlight this info towards the end: Some of the contractors that have helped OPM with managing internal […]
Officials: Chinese had access to U.S. security clearance data for one year
(Washington Post) The recently disclosed breach of the Office of Personnel Management’s security-clearance computer system took place a year ago, giving Chinese government intruders access to sensitive data for a year, according to new information. The considerable lag time between breach and discovery means that the adversary had more time to pull off a cyber-heist of […]
Navy Civilian Engineer Pleads Guilty to Attempted Espionage
(DOJ/NSD) Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 36, of Yorktown, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to charges of 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. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of […]
Chinese hack included security-clearance database
You’ve heard me say it before: it just gets worse and worse! China now has your SF-86 and background investigations. And who knows who they will sell this info to. (Washington Post) The Chinese breach of the Office of Personnel Management network was wider than first acknowledged, and officials said Friday that a database holding sensitive […]
Chinese breach of govt data means YOU are a target
“Some of you may think that you are not of interest because you don’t have access to classified information. You are mistaken.” —Deputy National Counterintelligence Executive Dan Payne After hacking, government workers warned of potential fraud (AP) An immense hack of millions of government personnel files is being treated as the work of foreign spies who could […]
6 Chinese Charged with Economic Espionage, Theft of Trade Secrets for Benefit of PRC Govt
The Gang of Six: Zhang, Pang, Gang, Zhang, Zhou and Chen. You have GOT to read: The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury Chinese Professors Among Six Defendants Charged with Economic Espionage and Theft Of Trade Secrets for Benefit of People’s Republic of China; Chinese Professors Alleged to Have […]
Wikileaks data merging with ICWATCH
Wikileaks Twitter feed said that on Monday, data from Wikileaks will be merged with ICWATCH: I’m not in the IC now but I was and I’m in the database too. Over 25,000 hits for “counterintelligence”: Foreign intel officers don’t even have to get out of their chairs now to do their work. Their only […]
New site tracks 137,981 people in the intelligence community
Every security officer needs to watch this video. At a conference last week in Germany, the founder of Transparency Toolkit gave a presentation on how he developed a program and website to collect data from LinkedIn of US government employees and contractors who self-identified that they work or worked on intelligence and surveillance-related projects. This database makes […]
Obama Lied How Osama Died
And now the rest of the story. . . . about the bin Laden raid and the aftermath. Read this article and make up your own mind–not what others tell you what you’re supposed to think and know. I never believed the “burial at sea” story and the explanation of bin Laden’s remains in this […]
Former DOE employee tried to sell US nuclear secrets to foreign country
‘My country for a Honda Civic.’ That’s how much a former DOE/NRC government employee thought the United States was worth. He walked into a foreign embassy overseas and tried to sell US secrets so he could buy a new Honda Civic. The price to sell out the country is getting lower and lower. He told […]
New Book on Nicholson Spy Case
Jim Nicholson was a GS-15 CIA operations officer when he volunteered to spy for the Russian SVR intelligence service (shortly after another CIA officer, Rick Ames, was arrested in 1994). One of Nicholson’s job was training new CIA operations officers, and gave their names to the Russians. He was arrested in 1996. Later, while in jail, […]
ISIS claims two of its ‘soldiers’ carried out attack in Texas
Coming soon to a suburb near you. DICE Principle: Believe in free speech. Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Attack on Muhammad Cartoon Art Fair in Texas (Wall Street Journal) Islamic State has taken responsibility for Sunday’s shooting at an art fair in Texas that featured cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, the first time the extremist group […]
U.S. military personnel have been convicted of $50 million worth of crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan
DICE Principles one, two and three: Do the right thing when no one is looking. Live with honor. Have integrity every day. Stealing secrets, stealing fuel, stealing money–it’s all the same and done in the same way through vulnerabilities, relationships, recruitments, wanting revenge, wanting to get rich quick instead of earning money honorably. U.S. military […]
RAY RECOMMENDS: The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
This is the book I talked about at my presentation at the IMPACT Conference in Chantilly, VA: The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury UPDATE: Nothing like this has ever happened before — I tried every which way but Facebook security censors wouldn’t let me cross-post this […]
Government cuts security clearances by 12 percent
(Federal News Radio) Nearly 640,000 fewer people held security clearances at the end of fiscal 2014 than they did a year earlier, according to a new report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. That’s a 12-percent drop in the number of federal employees, contractors and others with access to confidential information. The statistic alone […]
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