Without a doubt, if you are on the advertising services side of the Facebook house you’ve been sitting in a kitchen with the oven on broil and all four burners on high—the kitchen is hot. The social network is being viewed by many as culpable in allowing the Russian intelligence services to use their advertising..
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We are less than nine months away from the 2018 national midterm elections and states and local municipalities are still scrambling to understand the threat to their infrastructure and to have in place the most secure voting methodologies. What is known is that the U.S. intelligence apparatus has warned congress that Russian meddling in our..
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Feb.16 that a Federal grand jury dropped the hammer on a gaggle of Russian citizens and three Russian entities for their hand in the meddling in the U.S. presidential election of 2016. This Russian intelligence effort, code-named “Project Lakhta,” was conducted from 2014 to 2016 and is an..
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China’s intelligence community demonstrated its appetite for high-risk espionage operations—and evidenced it had “cojones” at least as large as Chicago’s Millennium Park’s egg—when it built the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It turns out the Chinese gift was a 21st century Trojan Horse, according to the French daily newspaper, Le Monde. The..
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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 “unlawful retention of national defense information.” To the uninformed, it may..
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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. Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency, while speaking at..
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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 government’s efforts to enlist the eyes and ears of the populace to thwart foreign intelligence operations which..
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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 Iraq and Syria/Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant). They invest time and effort to put forward image-heavy content..
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Kaspersky Lab has been bombarded with an unending stream of claims that its Russian roots equate to being part of the Russian national team when it comes to national security interests. We previously discussed the rationale behind the ban of Kaspersky Lab security products in any U.S. government device, and how the company is believed..
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