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A “preposterous-sounding plot weaving together a former used-car salesman, Mexico’s Zetas drug gang and a bank transfer from a Revolutionary Guard account to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador — by bombing a Washington restaurant?”
To some it reads like a Dan Gordon thriller; but according to Time Magazine, this is exactly what the infamous Quds Force of the…•
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Mandiant, a major cyber security firm who acts as agent for both government and private industry has released its report detailing China’s role in cyber attacks stating “Our research and observations indicate that the Communist Party of China is tasking the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to commit systematic cyber espionage and data theft against organizations…
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Last October, experts at Kaspersky; a Moscow based cyber-security company, claimed to have discovered a major global malware system that has attacked and compromised the computers of sensitive institutions including research centers, defense installations, diplomatic consulates, and government agencies in 39 countries for the past 5 years. Their released report about Red October, aka Rocra, hints…
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Concluding that MOIS, Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security is “one of the largest and most dynamic intelligence agencies in the Middle East”; the Pentagon revealed that the ministry engages 30,000 people in clandestine and covert activities that include technological theft, terrorist bombings, as well as assassination.
Although the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps,…•
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John Kiriakou, author of “The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror”, pleaded guilty to charges of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and was sentenced to 30 months in Federal Prison.
Initially, Kiriakou thought he was assisting in an FBI investigation, and only too happy to offer his services. About an hour…
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A new government report concludes that China’s cyber security threat is increasing in sophistication and that its sheer volume “makes China the most threatening actor in cyberspace,”
Although still unknown who is actually exercising the threat, trackers are being helped by technical gains. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission reported to Congress that the culprits are:•
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As the news initially broke, one could only wonder about the clout Ms. Kelley had for such an investigation to have been launched, the indiscretion on the part of Ms. Broadwell, and the resignation along with the fall from grace of Mr. Petraeus.
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Countries including the UK and Canada have expelled Russian diplomats for alleged spying in recent years. Three apparently separate events within three days have brought the activities of Russians in Romania under the microscope. One led to a 19-year-old Romanian being seriously injured in a hit-and-run incident, and another involves serious alleged espionage with a tint…
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Characterized as a “shame for the military”. Taiwan has arrested Chang Chih-hsin, the former chief of political warfare at the Taiwanese naval meteorology and oceanography office, along with two other former military officers; on charges of spying for China
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An FBI affidavit unsealed Monday says Hitselberger copied documents last spring that discussed gaps in U.S. intelligence in Bahrain as well as military troop activities in the region. His superiors later found the material stashed in his backpack, and investigators said they subsequently discovered additional classified material at Stanford in the “James F. Hitselberger Collection.”
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Upon discovering that his wife of 19 years was having an affair, Canadian Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle, decided to walk into the Russian Embassy in 2007 and offer his services. Thus began Jeff Delisle’s double life in espionage that abruptly ended when he aroused the suspicion of the border agent who noticed that he was carrying…
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Citing a series of “disruptive” attacks against U.S. companies, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta detailed the far more serious so-called “Shamoon” virus attack on the Saudi Arabian state oil company, Aramco. That August strike wiped out 30,000 of the companies computers. It created the image of a U.S. flag in flames on the infected computers and…
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The Chinese government detained a security official believed to be a minister in China’s intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security, who is suspected of passing information to the United States. It is unknown what kind of information the official may have divulged to the U.S. If true, the situation could prove to be the biggest…
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Israeli citizen Massoud Bouton isn’t who everyone around him—from government officials to fellow businessmen—thought he was. As an Israeli spy in Israel’s military intelligence service, he was known to all as Mustafa Taleb, a Lebanese businessman of Algerian descent. Residing in Beirut, his real work was to recruit operatives in enemy countries. In 1962, after Algeria’s…
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A plethora of articles are in the headlines these days on the CIA’s and the Army’s use of drones to strike terrorist targets in Pakistan. The question is, what else are they used for? The answer: for high-tech surveillance. It has already been released to the public that the U.S. has tiny remote-controlled vehicles based on…
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