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British secretary of defense stolen laptop from British Secretary of Defense British secretary of defense stolen laptop from British Secretary of Defense The secretary of defense of the British government lost a laptop in which the ministry’s data was stored. The laptop was in the car that the attackers had stolen from the minister’s house. Member of the conservative party and Secretary of Defense of the shadow government of Great Britain Liam Fox (Liam Fox) was left without a business laptop. The laptop was in Fox's car, parked near his home in London. Thieves climbed into the minister’s house and, leaving, stole his car. Computerworld UK suggests that secret information from the Department of Defense was stored on the computer. To the question of whether the data was encrypted, an exact answer has not yet been received. The Conservative Party's central office declined to comment. Stonewood CEO Chris McIntosh said that if the data on the laptop was protected, then Fox had nothing to worry about. If there is no protection, then the best that the minister should hope for is a leak to the press. Stonewood serves computers owned by the British Department of Defense.

 

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Counterintelligence officers lost 35 laptops in a year

The UK Government Liaison Office has been criticized for inefficient performance and neglect of national importance.

The UK’s leading e-espionage agency, the UK Government Communications Authority (GCHQ), has today received racket from members of the British Parliament, in particular for its disdain for protecting sensitive data.

The UK Intelligence and Security Committee said it had not received an answer from the Office to the question of whether valuable information was contained on 35 laptops lost during 2008.

According to ComputerworldUK, in an interview with The Guardian, management experts admitted that the laptops contained important information, but stated that "there are no signs that allow judging that the devices fell into bad hands." It was also said that the Office had changed the concept of internal security.

In addition, the Office of Government Communications has been criticized for having concentrated the entire IT infrastructure in one place - this makes the organization more vulnerable to attacks. It was emphasized that, due to a lack of qualified specialists, the Office worked inefficiently - hackers from Russia and China managed to steal valuable information by breaking into the security systems of a number of large British firms and government departments.

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Re: Counterintelligence lost 35 laptops in a year

There are no words. : lol: It would be better if the British hired me.

 

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the scout admitted to trying to sell secret documents

Former British intelligence officer admitted to trying to sell secret documents

Former MI6 foreign intelligence officer, 25-year-old Daniel Houghton, pleaded guilty to two violations of the classified documents law. Now he faces a long prison term.

A young man with British and Dutch citizenship, as well as a university degree in computer engineering, was arrested at the exit of a hotel in central London. In his hands was a suitcase with 900,000 pounds, which was given to him by MI5 counterintelligence officers, who pretended to be representatives of a foreign government.

According to investigators, counterintelligence allegedly acted on behalf of the Dutch authorities, with whom Houghton had previously contacted in the hope of selling secret data for two million pounds.

After working in MI6 for less than two years, Houghton left the organization with documents bearing the “top secret” stamp. In addition, he brought with him a laptop hard drive and flash drives, which also contain highly classified information. About 10 months passed between the outcome of the operation to detain him and the moment of dismissal.

Among the information stolen by the criminal was data on the methods of conducting MI6 intelligence activities and two lists of employees of this intelligence service. The investigators were reported to be most surprised at the fact that Houghton was able to take out electronic media with secret data unnoticed, and was quite capable of really selling them if the Dutch government had not notified MI5.
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Scandals with the “wiretap”.

Scandals with the “wiretap”: officials and just citizens under the hood.
How to deal with this? The constitutional complaint in defense of his client was filed by the law office of attorney Saulvedis Varpins.

The essence of the matter: the client of the lawyer was suspected of bribery, and the operational services quietly listened to him without the permission of the judge. Below are the details of this lawsuit, as well as the nuances of other scandals with rumors.

So far, the prospects for the struggle of "ordinary people" with the permissiveness of special services are in question. Indeed, even such high-ranking officials as Normund Vilnitis, Eric Kalnmeyers and Dzintars Jaundzhejkars recently complained about unauthorized wiretapping.

But if you don’t fight, then certainly nothing will come of it ...

Suit: can you really listen without trial?

The reason for applying to the Constitutional Court was given by one of the cases of the bureau of a well-known lawyer, a member of the board of the Bar Association of Saulvedis Varpins: two ex-officials were accused of demanding a bribe, and a certain lawyer - of mediation in transferring a bribe. As it turned out in court, the phones of the defendants in the case were tapped. Then the lawyers of the accused asked the court to make a request and find out on what basis the wiretapping was conducted.

So it turned out that the wiretapping of one of the defendants in the case began on the basis of the 5th part of the 7th article of the Law on Operational Activities, which allows - if it is necessary to prevent a particularly serious crime (riots, terrorism, murder, banditry, etc. ) - to conduct wiretapping for 72 hours without the permission of the judge, only informing the prosecutor. Which was done in a particular case.

- But in the end, there was no discussion of any serious crime prevention. This "emergency" article was used not at all for its intended purpose - to prevent a crime, but only in order to solve it. Investigators tapped the suspect’s phone at their convenience, while violating all human rights, the applicants say to the Constitutional Court.

In general, according to Saulvedis Varpins' law office, something needs to be done with such a contradictory norm. After all, in the end, everyone has the right to privacy, enshrined in the Satversme and the European Convention on Human Rights. The Bureau asks the Constitutional Court to declare this and other provisions of the Law on Operational Activities unconstitutional. The complaint, signed by the accused, has already been submitted to the Satversme court, assistant lawyer Andrejs Elksniниš told us.

- We came to the conclusion that on the basis of the 7th clause of the Law on Operational Activities, you can listen to almost any Latvian citizen for three days, and the judge may not even know about it. This norm is not completely clear, thus it can allow arbitrariness on the part of government officials, ”said lawyer Elksnins.

Human Rights and wiretapping

It is worth noting that the respected advocacy community has been outraged by the actions of special services that listen to everyone at any time. This year even a special conference of lawyers was dedicated to violations of human rights by the security services.

- The Satversme article 96 guarantees everyone the right to privacy, home and correspondence. However, there are a number of laws that stipulate that the right to privacy may be violated, ”says ex-Minister of the Interior, lawyer Aloiz Vaznis. - Thus, not only the Criminal Procedure Law, but also the Law on Operational Activities allows for special investigative actions (to listen to the phone, monitor correspondence, conduct surveillance).

- Why is this double permission to restrict human rights? - Mr. Vaznis is perplexed.

Mr. Vaznis is also worried about the publicity of information obtained through special investigative actions.

He cited the following example: a criminal trial against Ruslan Dervans, after the close of which telephone printouts attached to the decision to close the process were published in the press. Then, according to Mr. Vaznis, he filed a complaint on behalf of Dervans, because the Criminal Procedure Law prohibits the publication of wiretapping data.

-– To which the public prosecutor Adlers replied that only conversations that were received as part of a criminal case are not subject to publication. And wiretap materials obtained as part of the operational process can be published, Mr. Vaznis stated in his report.

As it turned out, those admitted to the state secret were also listening.

Richard Bunka, a member of the Presidium of the Latvian Bar Association, talked about the complicated life of the “admitted” in his report.

- The number of people allowed in state secrets is now also state secrets. However, it can be concluded that more than several tens of thousands of people were admitted. This is not only special services, but also some lawyers, as well as private individuals - entrepreneurs who carry out government orders related to the state secret. But when a person gains access to state secrets, he subscribes to a condition that allows him to conduct a whole range of operational activities in relation to himself. This is done so that the state can make sure: this person is honest and does not disclose trusted secret information. And it turns out that at any moment, as long as a person is admitted to the state secret, they can follow him without hindrance.

The wiretap epidemic: Vilnitis, Kalnmeyers, Jaundzhejkars complain

In practice, this has already resulted in public complaints by a number of high-ranking officials: they feel “under the hood” of surveillance.

For example, the current head of KNAB, Normund Vilnitis, stated that it is quite possible that his telephone conversations may be tapped unauthorized.

“There are facts and situations that testify to this,” the head of KNAB told reporters three weeks ago. “But when I took office, I took this into account.” I don’t worry about it now, because I am doing my work honestly and legally. And to those who follow me, I wish you only good luck. Studying the press, I came to the conclusion that surveillance in our country has become a very common practice. I would like to believe that in the future each of us will fulfill our duties on the merits, and not just formally.

Also, the head of the Sejm Commission on National Security Affairs Dzintars Jaundzhejkars complained of unauthorized wiretapping.

And even Eric Kalnmeyers, recently appointed to the post of Attorney General, talked about this. Kalnmeyers stated literally the following a month ago: his conversations with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Ivar Bichkovich, may have been eavesdropping. Such suspicions, like those of the applicant for the post of Attorney General, arose after politicians learned in advance about his nomination.

About anti-bugging

How often do customers order a wiretap fight? The detective and chairman of the international organization Society for Baltic Security Mikhail Chernousov discussed similar orders to detective agencies. We note as an interesting nuance: he passed the exam and, more recently, is also a sworn advocate.

- Clients often turn to detectives and ask them to check their homes, offices and phones for listening equipment. The standard practice is as follows. First, the client itself and who can listen to it are checked. If we find out that we are an honest person, and the bugs were set by competitors or criminals in order to carry out some illegal actions, we help this person. If we become aware that the person who has applied is himself connected with the criminal world, and the special services are listening to him, we will not help him ...

And finally, Mr. Chernousov noted: representatives of special services often turn to detective companies with requests to conduct unauthorized wiretaps. Just to check the "detective opportunities."

“But detectives always refuse: we do not engage in illegal wiretapping, and they do not give us sanctions on the lawful one,” says Mikhail Chernousov ironically.

For reference

The 5th part of the 7th article of the Law on Operational Activities states:

"In cases where it is necessary to act immediately to prevent terrorism, murder, banditry, riots, other grave or especially grave crimes, as well as when there is a real threat to the life, health and property of a person, operational measures (...) without the permission of the judge. This must be reported to the prosecutor within 24 hours and the permission of the judge must be obtained within 72 hours. Otherwise, operational actions must be interrupted. "

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[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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High-profile espionage scandals in 2005-2010

2010 year

In June, a group of people, most of whom are citizens of the Russian Federation, were arrested in the United States on suspicion of spying for Russia. The Southern District Court of New York charged them with conspiracy to act as unregistered agents of a foreign government. The Russians pleaded guilty and agreed to immediate deportation to their homeland. In early July, they were exchanged at a Vienna airport for four other Russians, previously convicted in the Russian Federation for espionage and now extradited to the West. Later it became known that the US authorities sent - on the basis of violation of immigration law - another alleged "agent" of the Russian Federation.

The situation was resolved at the highest level. According to a senior source in the Kremlin, it was possible to organize the return of Russian citizens to their homeland quickly, technologically and without complications "thanks to the new spirit of Russian-American relations, a high level of understanding and trust between the presidents of the two countries."

- In April, Indian law enforcement authorities arrested a senior official at the Indian Embassy in Islamabad on charges of spying for Pakistan. According to media reports, the second secretary of the Indian Embassy in Pakistan, Madhuri Gupta, was accused of collaborating with Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Gupta had been under surveillance for some time and was arrested after her suspicions were confirmed that she was transmitting “important information” to the other side.

- In April, the South Korean special services detained two people on charges of having been sent by Pyongyang to South Korea to eliminate a high-ranking defector from the DPRK, the former Secretary of the Central Committee of the Labor Party of Korea, Hwang Dian Oba. It was reported that they were employees of the intelligence department of the DPRK Ministry of People’s Armed Forces, who in December moved through China under the guise of North Korean defectors to Thailand, from where they were deported to South Korea.

- In February, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Valentin Nalyvaichenko, announced the exposure of the “Russian espionage group”, which operated in the country. According to him, five “members of the group” were expelled from the country, and the alleged organizer is in custody.

2009

- In October, a citizen of Ukraine Ruslan Pilipenko was detained in the city of Tiraspol at a Russian military facility. According to the special services of the Russian Federation, Pilipenko, the famous FSB as an employee of the main intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, since 2006 has been actively engaged in activities to the detriment of the security interests of the Russian Armed Forces. A digital camera with an electronic copy of documents classified as “secret” and “top secret”, the contents of which is a state secret, was seized from a detainee. Pilipenko made a confession and stated his readiness to provide information on other intelligence actions and agents involved in work against Russia.

- In March, world agencies reported that a Romanian military man and a Bulgarian citizen were arrested in Bucharest on suspicion of espionage. The serviceman allegedly gave the Bulgarian classified information, maps, technical data, including those related to radars. The latter, in turn, transmitted all this to an employee of the Ukrainian embassy in Bucharest.

2008

- In December, former Pentagon employee Ben-Ami Kadish officially admitted to spying for Israel during his military service. Kadish, who worked at the Arms Development Center, located in New Jersey, in particular, provided the representative of the Israeli consulate with secret information regarding US missile defense. He took home secret documents, allowing the representative of the Israeli authorities, Yosi Yagur, to make photocopies from them. His espionage activities continued from 1980 to 1985.

- In September, Herman Simm, the former head of the Department for the Protection of State Secrets of the Ministry of Defense of Estonia, was arrested in Estonia on suspicion of treason and the transfer of secret data to representatives of a foreign state. His wife, who was suspected of aiding treason, was also detained. She worked as a lawyer in the police department. According to investigators, Simm, who headed the security department of the Estonian Ministry of Defense in 2000-2006, collected secret information from 1995 to 2008 for transmission to officers of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). The Harju County Court in closed session on February 25, 2009 sentenced Simm to 12.5 years in prison for high treason and espionage in favor of the Russian Federation.

- On March 12, FSB officers of Russia detained two Russian citizens who also have US citizenship, Ilya Zaslavsky, head of the British Council Alumni Club project, Alexander Zaslavsky and his brother, an employee of TNK-BP Management. They were charged with industrial espionage. Zaslavsky were detained while trying to obtain classified information constituting a trade secret from a Russian citizen - an employee of one of the regime enterprises of the country's oil and gas complex. According to the FSB, the defendants collected classified information in the interests of a number of foreign oil and gas companies in order to gain advantages over Russian competitors, including in the markets of the CIS countries.

- In February, 72-year-old former engineer of the defense company Dongfang Chang was arrested at his home in the prestigious California district - Orange - on suspicion of spying for China. Chang, a native of China, worked for more than 30 years for the Rockwell International group of companies that was engaged in the development of space technology and military aircraft. Chang is suspected of passing secret documents related to the shuttle program, the C-17 military aircraft, and the Delta 4 rocket to the Chinese government.

At the same time, court documents were published according to which 51-year-old Pentagon analyst on weapons systems policy was charged with espionage in favor of China to Gregg William Bergersen. As part of his investigation, two Chinese immigrants from New Orleans (Louisiana) were also arrested. Both were accused of divulging information related to national security to a foreign government.

- In January there was a "spy scandal" related to the leak of information from the office of the Japanese government. Japan’s Main Police Department announced that Yasuo Fukuda, the Prime Minister’s Chancellery, handed over sensitive information to the Russian Embassy. In 2007, one of the civil servants of the Prime Minister’s office repeatedly met with an employee of the Russian Embassy in Tokyo, who had already left Japan. According to the Main Police Directorate, the information transferred was not related to the country's defense, but contained information on changes in public opinion in Japan and reactions to Japanese domestic political events by foreign countries, as well as some recommendations of the department for the cabinet. All these materials were in written (printed) form, and not recorded on digital media.

2007

- In June 2007, the former security services officer Vyacheslav Zharko applied to the state security organs of the Russian Federation, who said that he was recruited by the British intelligence services and disclosed the names of four MI-6 agents.

2006

- In October 2006, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office opened a criminal case against senior officials of the Russian government’s apparatus, who illegally handed over to the representative of TNK-BP photocopies of documents with confidential information. According to the Prosecutor General, the materials were prepared for the government meeting and contained information constituting state secrets. As the Prosecutor General’s Office noted then, the disclosure of these materials could be used for purposes contrary to Russia's strategic interests in the energy field and negatively affect the prospects for its development, strengthening its position in the international market, and the country's energy and economic security.

- On February 15, the Swedish police detained a young scientist, citizen of the Russian Federation Andrei Zamyatnin, who worked under a contract at the Institute of Agriculture of the University of Uppsala. According to the Swedish Foreign Ministry, he was charged with espionage. Swedish media reported that the suspected Russian is an assistant at one of Sweden's agricultural universities and is researching viruses that infect plants. After a two-month stay of a Russian scientist in a pre-trial detention center, the case was dismissed due to insufficient evidence. The Swedish Chancellor of Justice decided to pay compensation to the Russian biologist Andrei Zamyatnin, accused of espionage, in the amount of 80 thousand crowns (about 11.4 thousand dollars).

- In January, the FSB identified four British intelligence agents who worked in Moscow under diplomatic cover and seized the latest British intelligence electronic disguised as a stone. The FSB detained a Russian citizen who tried using this device to establish radio communications with British services. The British Foreign Ministry then expressed surprise and concern at the suspicions against British diplomats of espionage against Russia.

2005

- In October, a representative of the Security Department of the main police department of Japan said that an employee of a subsidiary of the Toshiba concern handed over to the employee of the Russian trade mission secret documents on dual-use electronic devices used in the military industry. These devices are included in the design of submarines, missile guidance systems, fighter radars and other devices. According to him, the two participants in the espionage scandal met at one of the electronic appliance exhibitions, after which they met in Tokyo nine times between September last year and May this year, and 1 million yen (about 10 thousand dollars) was transferred to the Japanese employee as a reward for services. The trade representative returned to Russia in June 2005.

Source: RIA Novosti

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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