Top counterintelligence official Mike Orlando on foreign espionage threats facing U.S. - Intelligence Matters
Updated on: May 12, 2021 / 6:29 AM / CBS News
In this episode of
Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Mike Orlando, the acting director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, about the range of foreign espionage threats facing the U.S. from adversaries and challengers like Russia and China. Orlando and Morell discuss how non-traditional collectors within the academic and business sectors are increasingly tasked by foreign governments to steal intellectual property and other secrets. Orlando, a career FBI agent who has specialized in counterintelligence, explains how NCSC has sought to warn U.S. private sector entities against espionage threats that have evolved in range and sophistication.
Published: April 5th, 2021
Hundreds of millions of Twitter users’ phone numbers and email addresses are now free, and check the integrity of your IT supply chain.
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, April 5. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
Fraudsters who call potential victims to spread scams have a new source of phone numbers: A free list of over 530 million phone numbers of Twitter subscribers. Until now the list was apparently available only to those willing to pay for it. But according to the news site The Record, someone has posted the list for free on a cybercrime forum. It includes names, profile names, email addresses and profile information subscribers might have added for over 3 million Canadian and 32 million American Twitter subscribers.
Hundreds of millions of Twitter users’ phone numbers and email addresses are now free, and check the integrity of your IT supply chain.
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, April 5. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
Fraudsters who call potential victims to spread scams have a new source of phone numbers: A free list of over 530 million phone numbers of Twitter subscribers. Until now the list was apparently available only to those willing to pay for it. But according to the news site The Record, someone has posted the list for free on a cybercrime forum. It includes names, profile names, email addresses and profile information subscribers might have added for over 3 million Canadian and 32 million American Twitter subscribers.
National Intelligence, Security Agencies Warn of U.S. Supply Chain Threats
1 Apr 2021
On Thursday, the U.S. intelligence and security launched a “call to action” to address supply chain threats from foreign powers.
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Department of Defense’s Center for the Development of Security Excellence have joined in an effort to “raise awareness” of threats to U.S. supply chains made all too apparent in the wake of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.