The world collectively learned of the passing of Otto Warmbier, the U.S. student who was held in North Korea. Let me correct this, Otto Warmbier who was murdered by the Kim Jung Un regime. Warmbier had the audacity to lift a... Read More

This past week we learned that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has teeth. JP Morgan Chase (JPMorgan) essentially, used the hiring of the children of Chinese leaders as a bribe in exchange for US$100,000,000 in deals in China a... Read More

A little over a month ago I wrote of the Russian gambit to influence the US national elections by seemingly backing the Republican party candidate Donald J. Trump in hopes that the US electorate would swing in mass to back... Read More

This week we saw, possible evidence of, yet another form of the Chinese cyber espionage. Smartphones calling “home” to China with user data. This is every government’s worst counterintelligence and cyber security nightmare. We are warned, repeatedly about the threat... Read More

The headline read:  Selling Secrets to the Russians? Jason Bourne Fan arrested in spy drama of his own.  Thus implying the motivation for Gregory Allen Justice was his sick wife, a job at which he felt unappreciated and a fascination with cinematic secret... Read More

The BBC reports that hackers are using fake LinkedIn profiles to befriend professionals and use their information in future attacks. Source: Fake LinkedIn profiles used by hackers – BBC News The BBC article pulls from a Symantec Threat Report “Fake... Read More

On 12 December 2013, a criminal complaint was filed by the United States Attorney in the Kansas District, petitioning for the arrest of two individuals, with ties to China, for the theft of  trade secrets from Ventria Bioscience and other... Read More

Espionage in the heartland of the United States? For two-plus years, perhaps for as many as four, a different type of harvesting has been occurring throughout the heartland of the United States. According to the criminal complaint (see below), filed... Read More

Critics say the NGO's Corruption Perceptions Index conveys an 'elite bias' and doesn't show evidence of actual corruption... Read More

White House courts critics as president seeks support for nuclear deal with Iran with a flurry of phone calls to foreign allies... Read More

  Though we are mid-way through 2013, I refer to a study I wrote in 2008 as it contains many data points applicable today.  In 2008 I published via CSO Online a study on the Economic Espionage landscape of 2007,... Read More

Prevendra’s Christopher Burgess posted a piece on China in the Huffington Post – China’s Military – Here we are!, which noted how the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been eating the West’s intellectual property lunch for the past 25+... Read More