Investigating espionage, security sweep at naval base
The Canadian military has evacuated staff from the Halifax naval intelligence facility where a sailor accused of espionage was working before his arrest.
The Department of National Defence said authorities are conducting a security sweep of HMCS Trinity to see whether this confidential communication centre has been compromised.
Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Paul Delisle was charged Jan. 16 under Canada’s Security of Information Act and faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted.
Experts are scanning Trinity, a naval communications and surveillance centre, for evidence of espionage or mechanisms designed to leak information to outsiders.
“The place is being investigated …. [for] software, hardware, bugs, the works,” a military official said.
Trinity staff have been temporarily moved a few kilometres away.
“As part of a normal and prudent business contingency plan, personnel belonging to elements of HMCS Trinity have been relocated to 12 Wing Shearwater for an undetermined period of time as a security precaution,” said Captain Karina Holder, spokeswoman for the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal, who commands the military police.
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Army hearing will be scheduled in attempted-espionage case
ANCHORAGE — U.S. Army officials could decide in February when to schedule a court hearing for an Alaska-based soldier charged with attempted espionage.
Army officials say 22-year-old Spc. William Colton Millay of Owensboro, Ky., transmitted national-defense information to someone he believed was a foreign-intelligence agent.
Officials have declined to say what country Millay believed the so-called agent represented. Millay, who faces life imprisonment, was observed during the espionage investigation and no damage occurred, officials said.
Millay, a military police officer, also is charged with communicating defense information, issuing false statements, failing to obey regulations and soliciting a fellow service member at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage to get classified material.
The Army’s equivalent of a preliminary hearing may be scheduled next month and could lead to a general court-martial, similar to a criminal trial in the civilian court system. But it’s too soon to know when the preliminary hearing actually will be held, Lt. Col. Bill Coppernoll said.
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U.S. Prosecutors Accuse China of Industrial Espionage Plot Against DuPont
Liew attorney Thomas Nolan maintained in court that Liew had only possessed publicly available information.
“There is nothing at all illegal about that conduct,” Nolan said. “What is illegal is if he uses trade secrets.”
Liew paid at least two former DuPont engineers for assistance in designing chloride-route titanium dioxide, also known as TiO2, according to the indictment. DuPont is the world’s largest producer of the white pigment used to make a range of white-tinted products, including paper, paint and plastics.
The United States has identified industrial spying as a significant and growing threat to the nation’s prosperity. In a government report released last November, authorities cited China as “the world’s most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage.”
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Hidden camera found inside leisure centre changing rooms
A camera has been found hidden in the changing rooms at a leisure centre in Fife.
It was handed in to staff after a customer found it inside a cubicle at Beacon Leisure Centre in Burntisland.
Police were immediately called after the discovery on January 23 and a detailed search was carried out at all other council-run sports centres in the Kingdom.
A spokesman for Fife Sports and Leisure Trust reassured customers, saying it was an isolated incident.
He said: “We are working with Fife police on this matter and can assure customers to our facilities that the matter is being treated with the utmost concern. Following the report of this isolated incident, a full and thorough search of the Trust’s changing facilities across its 13 centres in Fife was conducted.
“All our facilities are checked thoroughly on a daily basis, and changing areas are inspected regularly through the day by leisure centre staff.
“We have put extra measures in place to ensure staff are extra vigilant and are on hand to reassure customers. The Trust will not tolerate any criminal activity on its premises and will continue to work with Fife police to safeguard the public.”
An investigation is currently being carried out by Fife Constabulary, who are still examining the item.
A spokesman for the force said: “An item was handed in at the reception of Beacon Leisure Centre in Burntisland on January 23. It is currently subject to forensic examination. We are working closely with Fife Leisure and Sports Trust to deal with this isolated incident.”
Article source: http://news.stv.tv/scotland/296021-hidden-camera-found-inside-leisure-centre-changing-rooms/
Hackers eavesdrop on FBI, Scotland Yard phone call
Hacker group Anonymous, in an embarrassment for law enforcement, released a recording of a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard discussing operations against the hacking collective.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed the authenticity of the nearly 17-minute recording posted on YouTube and other sites and said it was “intended for law enforcement officers only and was illegally obtained.”
“A criminal investigation is under way to identify and hold accountable those responsible,” the FBI said in a statement.
The release of the audio recording was one in a series of attacks Friday by the shadowy loose-knit group of international hackers.
Members of Anonymous also attacked the website of the Greek justice ministry in a protest against the country’s tough fiscal reforms and a site operated by the Boston Police Department.
In addition, members of the hacker group claimed to have briefly knocked Citibank offline and defaced the website of the law firm that defended a US Marine charged in connection with the 2005 killing of 24 Iraqi civilians.
Anonymous, in a statement on the website of the law firm of Puckett and Faraj, also claimed to have published online three gigabytes of private email messages of attorneys Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj.
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