National Counterintelligence and Security Center

Traveling abroad over Thanksgiving? Planning to bring work with you? Explore NCSC’s new travel security guidance for basic tips on how to protect yourself and your organization’s information while abroad. https://lnkd.in/dCJbyjTK

#DYK: A house in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Washington, D.C., five miles from the White House, once served as a lab for a German spy to make anthrax used to kill thousands of horses bound for Allied forces in Europe in WWI. Explore NCSC’s spy exhibit: https://lnkd.in/e5FQja4s

#OTD?2019, scientist Haitao Xiang was indicted for economic espionage conspiracy. While working for Monsanto, Xiang stole a proprietary farming algorithm from the company to benefit the PRC government. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 29 months in prison.

Today, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), the FBI, and several U.S. Department of Defense agencies provided joint security guidance to U.S. defense industrial base companies regarding Russian sabotage activity in Europe.? ? The Russian government has been using its intelligence services to plan and conduct sabotage operations targeting Europe’s defense industrial base – including private industry –?in an attempt to undermine Allied support for Ukraine.? These operations, in which Russian intelligence services have recruited criminals and other proxies, have included sabotage attacks against European military installations, foreign defense companies, logistics facilities, and public utilities. ? U.S. companies, particularly those supporting entities involved in the Ukraine conflict or other ongoing geopolitical conflicts, are encouraged to enhance their vigilance and security efforts as a precaution.? The joint bulletin provides indicators of potential sabotage activity, mitigation steps, as well as information on where to report incidents. ? The bulletin, issued by NCSC, the FBI, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Command, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, can be found at: https://lnkd.in/e3MqG59s #Russia #sabotage #intelligence #counterintelligence ?

#OTD 1958, former Harvard research asst. Mark Zborowski was convicted of lying about his espionage in the US after fleeing France in 1941. An admitted Soviet agent who infiltrated the Trotskyist movement in France, he claimed he never spied in America, but a jury found otherwise.

As organizations implement enhanced physical and cyber security to protect their assets from external threats, the recruitment of insiders becomes a more attractive option for those trying to gain access. Visit NCSC’s #SecureInnovation scenarios booklet at https://lnkd.in/eN7mWXbB

Today, as part of National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, NCSC?and DHS CISA,?as the National Coordinator for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience, released new guidance to help detect and mitigate efforts by foreign intelligence entities to harm or disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure sectors. Critical infrastructure is the backbone of the U.S. economy; it is essential to public health and safety, national security, and resilience. Some critical infrastructure sectors—communications, energy, financial services, transportation systems, and water and wastewater systems—are interconnected to an extent that harm or compromise to one sector could harm or compromise other sectors. As a nation, we are seeing continued cyber and physical threats to critical infrastructure Americans rely on every day. U.S. adversaries and their foreign intelligence entities (FIEs) understand the importance of these sectors and how degrading them could hinder our national response in the event of crisis or war, given that harm to these sectors could cause panic, erode confidence in the government, and complicate leadership decision-making. Resolve to #BeResilient. Read more about the threat and mitigation steps at https://lnkd.in/e-n8Z6nw

Threat actors intentionally target the suppliers of more cyber-mature organizations to take advantage of the weakest link. Explore this NCSC guidance for information on how to better protect your supply chain ecosystem. https://lnkd.in/g22DH4AV

This week in 1948, Time editor Whittaker Chambers produced the “Pumpkin Papers,” 5 roles of microfilm & other info he had hidden in a pumpkin on his farm, to back up claims he and State Dept. official Alger Hiss had once spied for the USSR. The evidence led to Hiss’ conviction.

#OTD 1957, Soviet spy Rudolph Abel was sentenced to prison for espionage. His undoing began when a Brooklyn newsboy found a hollow nickel containing a coded message, drawing @FBI?interest. Abel was later exchanged for American U-2 pilot Gary Powers, a prisoner of the USSR.