On Sept. 11, 2006, FBI and NASA agents searched Chung’s residence in Orange, California, and found more than 250,000 pages of documents from Boeing, Rockwell and other defense contractors inside the house and in a crawl space underneath it. Among the documents were scores of binders containing decades’ worth of stress analysis reports, test results [...]
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Also tagged Boeing, China, Delta IV Rocket, Dongfan Chung, Economic Espionage, Espionage, NASA, Rockwell, Space Shuttle
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
For anyone who has a security clearance and doesn’t believe the U.S. faces a cyber-espionage crisis, Colonel Steven Shirley has 102 stories to share with you. That’s the number of cases in which Shirley’s team of Pentagon researchers discovered cyberspies breaching the networks of government agencies, defense contractors and other organizations with ties to the [...]
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Also tagged Contractors, Cyber Attacks, Cybersecurity, DOD, Espionage, Hackers, Hacking, Intelligence, Pentagon, Secrets, Think Tanks, Universities
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Following the report earlier this week that the FBI regularly broke the ECPA law, in obtaining information from telcos without going through the proper process (and, in some cases using just a post it note!), some interesting details from the full report have come to light. The two key ones? First, “the Obama administration issued [...]
You read that right. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker has dismissed (.pdf) a lawsuit in San Francisco’s federal courthouse against the U.S. government, stating in his ruling that the plaintiffs’ complaint that they were illegally monitored under the Bush Administration’s warrantless wiretap program is shared by too many other American citizens. At issue [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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 [...]
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Also tagged Crime, DOJ, Electronic Communications Protection Act, Espionage, FBI, Inspector General, Intelligence, Law, Phone Records, Surveillance, Telecoms, Wiretapping
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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 [...]
The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after the fact to justify their actions. E-mails obtained by The Washington Post [...]
“These are new tools. There hasn’t been a lot of discussion about how law enforcement can use them and what’s appropriate, what’s ethical,” said attorney Marcia Hofmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit this week against the Defense Department, the Justice Department, the CIA and other federal agencies [...]
Yahoo isn’t happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides law enforcement agencies has leaked onto the web. Shortly after Threat Level reported this week that Yahoo had blocked the FOIA release of its law enforcement and intelligence price list, someone provided a copy of the company’s spying guide to the whistleblower [...]
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies? That’s the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian asked all agencies within the Department of Justice, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed a [...]
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Also tagged Christopher Soghoian, Comcast, Cox Communications, DOJ, FOIA, ISPs, Phone Records, Privacy, Surveillance, Telecoms, Verizon, Wiretapping, Yahoo
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The CIA may or may not be interested in what people think about it, per se. However, In-Q-Tel spokesman Donald Tighe told Wired that the organization plans to use Visible Technologies’ service for “early-warning detection on how issues are playing internationally.” He noted that it has no intentions of monitoring activity in the United States. [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Israeli intelligence has been caught running several espionage operations against the United States that have antagonized many officials in the U.S. intelligence community. The most damaging of these came in November 1985 with the arrest of Jonathan Pollard, a civilian analyst with the U.S. Navy who from May 1984 had passed vast amounts of top-secret [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Four Democratic U.S. senators will introduce a bill to repeal a provision protecting telecommunications carriers from lawsuits targeting their assistance to a controversial U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program. [...] The new legislation, called the Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act, would allow lawsuits against telecom providers such as AT&T to resume. via Senators want to end [...]
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
“We have a situation where the government is spending fairly large sums of money to use an unproven technology that has a possibility of false positives that would subject innocent Americans to unnecessary scrutiny and impinge on their freedom,” said Kurt Opsahl, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “Before the NSAC expands its mission, [...]
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Also tagged Data Mining, Databases, EFF, FBI, Intelligence, National Security Letters, NSAC, NSL, Oversight, Privacy, Surveillance, TIA, Total Information Awareness
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