How to Create Awareness of the Insider Threat
(CIO/Ira Winkler) One of the legacies of Edward Snowden’s treason is that companies are now concerned about the insider threat more than they ever were before. He demonstrates that a single person inside an organization can devastate the organization. While technology should have caught Snowden, there is also the realization that his coworkers and managers […]
Insider Threat Awareness Growing But Action Lacking
(HStoday) Although the insider threat is on the radar for most organizations, many are repeatedly failing to take the necessary steps to prevent an attack, according to a recent report sponsored by SpectorSoft and conducted by the SANS Institute. The report, Insider Threats and the Need for a Fast and Directed Response, surveyed 772 IT security […]
Hacker Implants NFC Chip In His Hand To Bypass Security Scans And Exploit Android Phones
(Forbes) US navy petty officer Seth Wahle, now an engineer at APA Wireless, implanted a chip in his hand, in between the thumb and the finger of his left hand. It has an NFC (Near Field Communications) antenna that pings Android phones, asking them to open a link. Once the user agrees to open that […]
Owner of Defense Contracting Businesses Pleads Guilty to Illegally Exporting Military Blueprints
Hannah Robert, a defense contractor, did not protect technical drawings related to parts used in the torpedo systems for nuclear submarines, military attack helicopters and F-15 fighter aircrafts. She was willing to provide them to any foreign buyer — and she transmitted the plans via her church’s website to hide her activities. Not only that, but […]
Former FBI counterintelligence special agent sentenced to prison
Sacred Honor Lost: Special Agent Robert G. Lustyik Jr, a 24-year veteran of the FBI, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $70,000 for soliciting and accepting bribes. Using his position, he tried to derail an investigation into a company started by former soldiers suspected of paying kickbacks to win $54 million in […]
US Army National Guard Soldier Arrested for Conspiring to Support Terrorism (ISIL)
US Army National Guard Specialist Hasan Edmonds, 22, a U.S. citizen, was arrested at Chicago Midway International Airport while attempting to fly to Cairo, Egypt. He is charged with allegedly conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a foreign terrorist organization. His cousin, who planned on shooting up to 150 military […]
ASK RAY: What do you think about the TV show “The Americans”?
QUESTION: Mr. Semko, I was wondering if you have watched the TV show The Americans. It’s about undercover KGB agents posing as Americans during the early 80’s. Being in counter-intel around the same time, I’m sure you at least brushed up against this kind of thing. I was just wondering how accurate you thought the […]
INSIDER THREAT: US Defense Contractor calls Iran “my nation”; tried to transfer skills learned at 3 companies
A guy who had worked for three different US defense contractors wanted to “transfer” the “skills and knowledge” he learned at these companies to Iran, which he called, “my nation.” Dual loyalties anyone? And at a US government contractor company?? (DOJ) Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney Deirdre M. Daly for […]
Careless/Untrained Insiders are Biggest Threat
(NextGov) Rank-and-file federal employees and contractors unwilling to “embrace ‘The Suck’ of security” may be the biggest threat posed to securing federal agency networks. “Accidental or careless” insiders — employees who click on dubious email attachments, plug in unsecured storage devices or leave laptops unsecured, among other lapses in basic cyber hygiene — unwittingly open the door […]
Businesses warned about new espionage campaigns from of China
(CSO) Ongoing investigations by the FBI have revealed a group that has been compromising personal and sensitive business information from U.S. commercial and government networks in recent weeks. In a memo sent to security leaders and community insiders, the agency warns that the data breaches were done “through cyber espionage” and that the tools used […]
Army Contracting Official Charged in Pentagon Bribery Scheme
Manassas Man is a Retired Army Sergeant Major Working as a Civilian Contracting Official for the Army at the Pentagon (FBI) James Glenn Warner, 44, of Manassas, Virginia, was arrested today and charged with soliciting bribes from executives working for a private company on a contract that Warner managed out of the Pentagon. Dana J. […]
Computer administrator at US military base pleads guilty to Espionage and Computer Fraud
(DOJ) Palm Beach County Resident Pleads Guilty Under the Espionage Act and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for Accessing and Removing Classified Information from Military Computers Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in Charge George Piro for the FBI’s […]
Former Los Alamos National Laboratory Scientist Sentenced to Prison for Atomic Energy Act Violations
(DOJ) Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez for the District of New Mexico, Assistant Director Randall C. Coleman of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division announced that Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, a scientist formerly employed at the […]
Another Russian Spy Ring in New York City Busted
This alleged Russian spy ring was interested in some very dangerous things (Washington Post) . . . Buryakov, who went by Zhenya and said he worked for a Russian-owned bank in Manhattan, also was involved in one of the few conversations that wasn’t totally clownish, but was, quite simply, terrifying to contemplate. He was interested, […]
Former CIA Officer Convicted For Unauthorized Disclosure of National Defense Information and Obstruction of Justice
(DOJ) A former CIA officer was convicted today by a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, of illegally disclosing national defense information and obstructing justice. Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director James B. Comey, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the Eastern District […]
Do you know what your teenager is up to?
A 19 year old girl from Colorado gets recruited by ISIS over the internet, she signs up for Army and NRA firearms training then tried to travel to the middle east to become an ISIS fighter. Colorado Woman Sentenced for Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (DOJ Press Release) Assistant Attorney […]
Federal Employee Provided China with Sensitive Information on US Dams
(Washington Free Beacon) A federal weather service employee charged with stealing sensitive infrastructure data from an Army Corps of Engineers database met a Chinese government official in Beijing, according to court documents that reveal the case to be part of an FBI probe of Chinese economic espionage. Xiafen “Sherry” Chen, an employee of the National […]
More on Navy engineer trying to sell aircraft carrier secrets
Navy engineer accused in carrier plot attended Old Dominion University, lived in York subdivision (Daily Press) The Navy engineer accused of attempting to sell design drawings of America’s newest aircraft carrier to the Egyptian government lived with his family in a well-known York County subdivision and received a bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University last […]
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