Post Tagged with: "spy"
US urges China to probe, halt cyber spying
Beijing must take steps to investigate and halt cybercrime, a top US official said Monday, warning the international community cannot tolerate the widespread hacking coming from China. “This is not solely a national security concern or a concern of the US government,” National Security Advisor Tom Donilon told The Asia Society. “Increasingly, US businesses are [...]
Iran issues a warning for America after attacking spy drone
Following confirmation from both sides that an American surveillance drone was fired at by Iranian jets, top brass with Iran’s military say the country won’t hesitate to shoot again next time a US craft enters its airspace. “The defenders of the Islamic Republic will respond decisively to any form of encroachment by air, sea or [...]
Britain seeking ‘Xbox generation’ spies
Britain launched a new spy recruitment drive on Thursday aimed at “Xbox generation” youngsters without a university education but with social media and computer game skills to counter the threat of cyber attack. Foreign Secretary William Hague launched the apprenticeship scheme in a speech at Bletchley Park in southern England, where Nazi Germany’s Enigma codes [...]
Canada ‘spy’ sold US, Australia, UK secrets: report
A Canadian naval officer arrested this year for allegedly leaking secrets may also have compromised top level Australian, British and American intelligence, a report said Wednesday. Jeffrey Delisle, a naval intelligence officer, was charged by a Canadian court in January with communicating over the past five years “with a foreign entity, information that the government [...]
US ‘expanding’ spy bases in Africa
The United States military is expanding a secret network of air bases across Africa in order to spy on Al-Qaeda and other militant groups, the Washington Post reported. The surveillance is carried out by small, unmarked turboprop planes with hidden state-of-the-art sensors that fly thousands of miles (kilometers) between air bases and bush landing strips [...]
New Defense Service Enhances Intelligence Capabilities
The Defense Department has begun a new effort to better integrate defense intelligence with the broader intelligence community and make the department a better, more versatile organization, a senior Pentagon spokesman told reporters today. “What we’ve done here is we’ve formed a new effort here called the Defense Clandestine Service,” said Navy Capt. John Kirby, [...]
New Pentagon spy agency to focus on Iran, China
The Pentagon is creating a new intelligence agency that will focus on Iran and China as it begins to pivot away from war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, the New York Times reported. The newspaper said late Monday that the new Defense Clandestine Service would make use of existing agents, authorities and assets and work [...]
New ISRO center to control spy satellite launch
The Indian rocket that will carry the 1,850 kg indigenous surveillance satellite – Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) – to the skies this month will be controlled by the new mission control centre at Sriharikota, said a senior official of Indian space agency ISRO. “The second mission control centre was inaugurated by President Pratibha Patil this [...]
Pirates, Beware: Navy’s Smart Robocopters Will Spy You in the Crowd
Navy unmanned aircraft will be able to distinguish small pirate boats from other vessels when an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-funded sensor starts airborne tests this summer, officials said April 5. Called the Multi-Mode Sensor Seeker (MMSS), the sensor is a mix of high-definition cameras, mid-wave infrared sensors and laser-radar (LADAR) technology. It will be [...]


