Intelligence
GSN's reporting on intelligence matters includes espionage techniques used by the CIA and its overseas adversaries, identity theft in the U.S., GPS and mapping technologies promoted by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and other government organizations and privacy issues surrounding innovative forms of surveillance.
U.S.-China Commission to study China’s cyber warfare capabilities
April 29th, 2008
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has scheduled a hearing on Capitol Hill on May 20 to address "China’s Proliferation Practices and the Development of its Cyber and Space Warfare Capabilities."
Border fence "Project 28" scrapped; DHS vows new effort
April 23rd, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security has decided to scrap the virtual border fence it has been developing in Arizona, known as Project 28.
The cancellation came less than two months after DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff had announced his approval of the project, being built by Boeing Co.
DHS intelligence chief assesses risk of nuke attack
April 21st, 2008
The DHS official in charge of intelligence and analysis believes that no terrorist group possesses a device at the moment that would enable it to launch a nuclear attack on the U.S.
"I do not believe that any terrorist organization currently has developed a nuclear device," Charles Allen, the department’s under secretary for intelligence and analysis, told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs earlier this month.
InfraGard eyes cyber crime and the forensic debate
April 21st, 2008
Last week, a group of high-powered corporate lawyers, security geeks and FBI agents met to ponder how to secure sensitive corporate data. It was part of an on-going series of conferences mounted by InfraGard, the national collaboration between the FBI and the private sector. Presentations examined protection of intellectual property, the use of forensics in determining and controlling network intrusions and data theft, and an overview of emerging issues in e-discovery.
Uncle Sam must provide ongoing support to state and local fusion centers, says GAO
April 18th, 2008
When it studied the recent nationwide trend to establish state and municipal "fusion centers" to share counterterrorism and law enforcement information between federal, state and local intelligence officials, the Government Accountability Office found good and bad news.
FBI: Internet crime dollar losses hit record
April 15th, 2008
According to the FBI’s most recent report on the state of cyber crime, released April 3, the number of incidents may have decreased, but their dollar value has soared.
Electronic snooping planned at U.S./Mexican border
April 15th, 2008
The Drug Enforcement Agency wants to find a small business with a Top Secret security clearance that can snoop on Spanish language conversations transmitted over foreign communications systems and "instantaneously" translate those conversations from Spanish into English.
Monitoring Osama bin Laden and other Islamic terrorists
April 10th, 2008
More than 50 companies have expressed interest in displacing the incumbent contractor, Detica DFI International, when DHS awards a new contract to monitor Web sites and chat rooms frequented by Islamic terrorists, and to translate those sites’ Arabic content into English.
