Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was wholly controlled by top intelligence officials in Tel Aviv, not part of a “rogue” operation, says the U.S. Navy counterintelligence agent who took his confession. Israeli ambassador Michael Oren caused a bit of a stir Monday when he told a Washington radio station that Pollard, a naval intelligence analyst who [...]

The Federal Bureau of Investigations may use fake identities on social networks to investigate criminal activities, according to a redacted FBI document (.pdf) acquired by digital rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation. Specifically, the 33-page confidential presentation says undercover operations are helpful for communicating with suspects and targets of crime, gaining access to private information, and [...]

Here are some previous international scandals involving Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies. * 1954 – Egypt cracks Israeli Military Intelligence cell of Egyptian Jews who firebombed sites frequented by Westerners to embarrass Cairo and stop it nationalizing the Suez Canal. Two are hanged, one commits suicide and six others are jailed. Israeli Defense Minister [...]

The world’s largest Internet search company and the world’s most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity. Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, [...]

The FBI and telecom companies collaborated to routinely violate federal wiretapping laws for four years, as agents got access to reporters’ and citizens’ phone records using fake emergency declarations or simply asking for them. The Justice Department Inspector General’s internal audit, released Wednesday, harshly criticized how the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Communications Analysis Unit — a [...]

Surely, the U.S. Congress that is now putting its foot down on private companies cooperating with such abusive spying elsewhere would react very angrily in the face of revelations that it was being done here.  Actually, in the face of such revelations less than two years ago, they ended up on a very bipartisan basis [...]

To be clear, Google is not accusing the Chinese government of anything, and a spokesman would only say that they’ve determined the latest string of attacks “originated from within China.” But cyber security expert Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, said that attacks like the one on Google can be judged to [...]