Collaborate Disseminate
It seems that an annual jaunt through the success cybercriminals are having with business email compromise (BEC) and fleecing money from companies, organizations and governmental entities is a requirement. Last year we asked the question, “Are y… Continue reading Business Email Compromise Continues to Plague
The recent indictment of two Chinese nationals for the 2015 hack on Anthem that compromised more than 78 million health records, including 4 million U.S. government employees, moves the provenance of the intrusion from the theoretical to reality: Chin… Continue reading China Targeting USG Employees Via Anthem Hack
The phrase, “Who watches the watcher,” has been around since about AD 100, taken from the Latin phrase, “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes,” found within the Satires of Juvenal. In the context of security, specifically corporate cybersecurity, it applies … Continue reading Who’s Watching Your Infosec Team?
The surprising U.K. government position which we referenced in our prior piece on Huawei being a national security proxy for China wasn’t supposed to have been public knowledge. The information concerning the April 23 government meeting was, according… Continue reading Huawei Fallout: UK Defence Minister Sacked Over Leak
The former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations officer, who post-employment served as a proxy-penetration of the CIA for the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS), has pleaded guilty to a single count of “conspiracy to deliver national de… Continue reading China’s CIA Penetration, Jerry Lee, Pleads Guilty
The week of April 15 saw the unsealing of the indictment of Xiaoquing Zheng and his co-conspirator Zhaoxi Zhang on multiple counts of economic espionage associated with the theft of the intellectual property of General Electric. Zheng previously had b… Continue reading Economic Espionage: Zheng and Zhang Fleece General Electric
Much has been made of recent pronouncements in both the U.S. and the U.K. concerning whether the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is a national security threat. On the one hand, we have the U.K.’s Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Center (HCSEC)… Continue reading Is Huawei a National Security Proxy for China?
For those keeping score, the Russian Federation has been sending Russian intelligence officers to prison at a rapid clip. These officers were active in counterintelligence cyberoperations within the Russian Federation and are alleged to be the sources… Continue reading Russia Imprisoning Sources Associated With U.S. Election Meddling
The assimilation of the social credit scoring system that began in 2014 is well underway in China. Citizens are adjusting their behavior so that they may continue to be eligible to receive goods and services. For now, those participating in the system… Continue reading China, What’s Your Score?
It is becoming an increasingly common thread: A U.S. startup has an exciting new technology; shares exemplars of new technology with potential customers; and potential customer violates all agreements in an attempt to reverse-engineer said technology…. Continue reading Technology Espionage: Huawei, the Unscrupulous Customer