Tag Archives for intelligence
USG OSINT Platform
Here is a great status report from the DNI Open Source Center’s Director Doug Naquin who is working hard to stand up the government’s OSINT hub. This could be big if platform logic is applied to leverage a widely dispersed … Continue reading
Social Engineering Emergency Responders
ThreatLevel: An example of leveraging open social systems to collect intelligence from people who are generally not trained for INFOSEC and usually don’t think in terms of security: Someone is staging social engineerings attacks against emergency responders in a mysterious … Continue reading
Private Intelligence Collectors
Portfolio has the story. It’s a pretty fun read, nice overview, snippets from the key players. From New York and London to Moscow and Beijing, today’s corporations are venturing into a netherworld populated by former agents who have been schooled … Continue reading
FBI Collecting and Storing BIOINT
WaPo – The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world’s largest computer database of peoples’ physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad. … Continue reading
How China Gamed Our Contracting System
WaTimes – China’s Ministry of State Security, the main civilian spy service, carried out the operations by setting up a Chinese translation service in Hawaii that represented itself as a U.S.-origin company. The ruse led to classified contracts with the … Continue reading