Posts Tagged ‘insider threat’
Off-duty pilot charged with 83 counts of attempted murder for allegedly trying to shut off engines on Alaska Airlines flight
An off-duty pilot is charged with 83 counts of attempted murder after he allegedly tried to shut off the engines by pulling the fire extinguisher handles on an Alaska Airlines flight, according to officials. The plane was scheduled to fly from Everett, Washington, to San Francisco before it diverted late Sunday to Portland after a…
Read MoreFormer NSA employee admits trying to sell top secret info to Russia
A former National Security Agency employee pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to sell classified documents to a person he believed was a Russian agent — but who was actually an undercover FBI employee. Jareh Dalke, 31, pleaded to six counts of attempting to transmit national defense information to a foreign government, admitting that in…
Read MoreSri Lanka to probe allegation of intelligence complicity in 2019 bombings
Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. Labour Minister Manusha Nanayakkara told the parliament on Tuesday that details on the investigation will be announced soon. A man interviewed in…
Read More2 US Navy sailors arrested on charges tied to national security and China
Two U.S. Navy sailors have been arrested on charges related to national security and tied to China, U.S. officials said Thursday. A 22-year-old sailor assigned to a ship in San Diego was arrested Wednesday on a charge related to espionage involving conspiracy to send national defense information to Chinese officials, according to the U.S. officials,…
Read MoreFormer OKC Water Department Employee Charged With Terrorism Hoax After Allegedly Making Threats
A former Oklahoma City water department employee has been charged for allegedly making threatening remarks on social media aimed at the city’s water supply. Oklahoma County prosecutors charged Matthew Duffy, 34, this week with one count of uttering a terrorism hoax. They believe Duffy could sabotage the city’s water supply. City officials told police that…
Read MoreU.S. Army Soldier Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charges for Attempting to Help ISIS Conduct Deadly Ambush on U.S. Troops
An Ohio man today pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and attempting to murder U.S. military service members based on his efforts to help the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) to attack and kill U.S. soldiers in the Middle East. Cole Bridges, aka Cole Gonzales,…
Read MoreRecruit fatally shoots 2 SDF instructors, hurts 1 at Japan gun range
A Ground Self-Defense Force recruit shot three instructors, two of whom were killed and another seriously injured, on Wednesday during a live-fire training exercise at the force’s firing range in central Japan, the GSDF said. The new recruit, an 18-year-old male, was arrested at the site following the incident that occurred at around 9:10 a.m.…
Read More[CA] Kern High School District Employee Charged with Federal Explosive Offenses
A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against Angelo Jackson Mendiver, 26, of Bakersfield, an employee of the Kern High School District, charging him with conspiring to commit offenses against the United States; engaging in manufacturing and dealing in explosive materials; two counts of mailing an explosive device; improper storage of explosives; and…
Read MoreRobert Hanssen, FBI agent who spied for Russia, found dead in prison
Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent turned spy whom the bureau describes as the most damaging in its history, was found dead in his prison cell on Monday, U.S. authorities said. Hanssen, 79, was sentenced in 2002 to life in prison after pleading guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for over…
Read MoreTrial set to begin in Russian espionage case against Hopkins doctor, US Army doctor
A federal trial is set to begin Monday in Baltimore for an Army physician and her anesthesiologist wife who are accused of conspiring to give Russia medical information to help its invasion of Ukraine. Maj. Jamie Lee Henry, a doctor at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and her wife Anna Gabrielian, an anesthesiologist at Johns…
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