Collaborate Disseminate
Until Jan. 16, unless you were part of the counterintelligence China mole-hunt team at the CIA and FBI, you probably had never heard of a former CIA case officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee. A 13-year veteran of the CIA (1994-2007), Lee stands accused of “unl… Continue reading Counterintelligence: Who is the Chinese Spy Jerry Chun Shing Lee?
Just a few days ago we saw the brutal murder of 77-year-old Carlos Dominguez in the city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. His death is believed to have been at the hands of the drug cartels. Dominguez was an independent political journalist for the Tamaulipas … Continue reading Nation States and Criminals Silencing the Fourth Estate
Will 2018 be a year without conflict? Not likely. Will we see information warfare in 2018? Most definitely. Indeed, the possibility of information warfare being the impetus for a nation’s kinetic response is just as real as ever, if not more so. Gen. K… Continue reading Information Warfare: The Year Ahead
British defense officials have added their voice to those of others highlighting the threat posed by the capabilities of the Russian military and intelligence entities to the soft underside of the global telecom infrastructure: undersea cables. Air Chi… Continue reading Global Undersea Cables Vulnerable to Russia’s Special Ops
As we come to the end of the tumultuous 2017, the award for sleight of hand perhaps should go to China and its intelligence apparatus, the Ministry for State Security (MSS) and People’s Liberation Army (PLA), as they continue to harvest intellectual pr… Continue reading China’s Economic Espionage via the Non-Attributable Hand
Reviewing the current discourse surrounding the use of social networks by Russia, one cannot help but have a sense of déjà vu, as the tried and true Cold War tactics of the Soviet Union percolate to the forefront. Specifically, how the Russian informat… Continue reading Déjà Vu All Over Again – Russian Active Measures
If you’re like me, you’re sitting here watching Bitcoin sail through the stratosphere and wondering: When will it peak? There are others who are considering cryptocurrencies a viable speculation as an alternative means to raise capital. Oth… Continue reading Cryptocurrency ICOs: Caveat Emptor
In an interesting turn of events, the ongoing case of Waymo v. Uber, which was scheduled to go to trial next week, has come to a screeching halt amid allegations of Uber having withheld material information surrounding the existence of a unit within th… Continue reading Uber’s Shady Competitive Intelligence Unit Revealed in Court
Some may say that China has always had an underlying current of xenophobia. Arrests and prosecutions of foreign nationals in China on unexplained or unidentified espionage charges continue. These actions continue to feed this narrative, as do the gover… Continue reading China Continues its Xenophobic Counterintelligence Campaigns
Anyone with access to the internet can have their voice heard. And this is exactly the philosophy behind the extremist online radicalization and recruitment efforts of various terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah and ISIS/ISIL (Islamic State of… Continue reading Extremist Groups: Using the Internet to Foment Online Radicalization