Cybersecurity & Espionage Articles
Original article at DefenseOne.com
The U.S. military has the hardest job in human resources: evaluating hundreds of thousands of people for their ability to protect the nation’s secrets. Central to that task is a question at the heart of all labor relations: how do you know when to extend trust or take it away? The office of the Defense Security Service, or DSS, believes artificial intelligence and machine learning can help. Its new pilot project aims to sift and apply massive amounts of data on people who hold or are seeking security clearances. The goal is not just to detect employees who have betrayed their trust, but to predict which ones might — allowing problems to be resolved with calm conversation rather than punishment.
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Unknown to hundreds of millions of Facebook users, their passwords were sitting in plain text inside the company's data storage, leaving them vulnerable to potential employee misuse and cyberattack for years. Original article at Reuters.com
The engineer, Guangzhi Cao, copied more than 300,000 files related to Autopilot source code as he prepared to join China’s Xiaopeng Motors Technology Company Ltd, the Silicon Valley carmaker said in the lawsuit filed in a California court. Original article at MilitaryTimes.com
A former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and U.S. Army veteran pleaded guilty Friday to attempting to steal and deliver military secrets to the Chinese government, Department of Justice officials announced. Ron Rockwell Hansen, 59, was arrested by the FBI in June as he was trying to board a flight for China. The agency said he had been approached by Chinese intelligence agents in 2014, and received not less than $800,000 in funds originating from China as compensation for transmitting U.S. national secrets. Original article at BusinessInsider.com
On a day-to-day basis, Facebook's security team has its hands full dealing with the hoards of people that turn up at the company's offices to complain about their accounts, attempt to meet Mark Zuckerberg, or just try to look around. But the California social-networking giant also has to consider the possibility of more serious threats — among them, the risk that foreign spies might try to insinuate themselves into its workforce. Survey: Cybersecurity Threats from Careless Insiders and Foreign Governments Reach All-Time Highs3/4/2019 Original article at NextGov.com
Careless and untrained insiders and foreign governments are the largest sources of security threats for federal agencies, according to the fifth annual Federal Cybersecurity Survey, released Tuesday by IT management software firm SolarWinds. The survey, conducted by Market Connections, polled 200 federal IT decision-makers and influencers between December 2018 and January 2019 regarding eight security threats: careless/untrained insiders, foreign governments, general hacking community, hacktivists, malicious insiders, terrorists, for-profit crime and industrial spies. Six of the eight threat sources were at all-time highs this year, with the majority of respondents listing careless/untrained insiders (56 percent) and foreign governments (52 percent) as their greatest source of security threats. Multiple responses were allowed for this question. |
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