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SOURCE: Cyberscoop by Derek B Johnson – April 28, 2026
Jay Harless, director of human development and Sasha Muth, deputy director of human development at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency speak at the Workday Federal Forum presented by Scoop News Group. (Image Source: Scoop News Group)
Like many organizations, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is moving to integrate AI tools into their business operations.
Jay Harless, director of human development at NGA, said the agency is trying to strike a balance: move fast enough to keep pace in what U.S. national security officials increasingly view as an AI arms race with adversarial countries like Russia, China, but not so fast that it disrupts proven intelligence-gathering methods.
"One of our primary drivers is that our adversaries were investing heavily, and so there is the pressure to keep ahead of and do that safely," Harless said Tuesday at the Workday Federal Forum, presented by Scoop News Group. "We also realize that some of our adversaries may not have the same legal and ethical boundaries that us and our partners all need."
SOURCE: US Department of Justice – May 11, 2026
LOS ANGELES – The mayor of Arcadia has been charged in federal court with acting as an illegal agent of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Justice Department announced today.
Eileen Wang, 58, of Arcadia, is charged via information with one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government.
In a related filing, Wang has agreed to plead guilty to the felony count, which comes with a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.
She is expected to make her initial appearance this afternoon in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles. Wang is expected to plead guilty in the coming weeks.
Wang was elected in November 2022 to the Arcadia City Council, a five-person governing body from which the mayor is selected on a rotating basis.
"Individuals in our country who covertly do the bidding of foreign governments undermine our democracy," said First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli. "This plea agreement is the latest success in our determination to defend the homeland against China's efforts to corrupt our institutions."
SOURCE: Federal News Network by Justin Doubleday – April 27, 2026
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency documented hundreds of data spills, improper storage incidents and other security violations by cleared defense contractors last year, according to the Government Accountability Office.
In a new report, GAO reviewed DCSA's efforts to ensure defense contractors are protecting classified information. The report comes as foreign entities attempt to steal classified data from industry "thousands of times per year," GAO states.
DCSA conducted more than 4,600 security reviews in fiscal 2025 and documented 815 security violations, according to GAO.
GAO found that nearly 60% of the violations were "data spills," while 11.5% were improper storage, 6.5% were access breach or unauthorized disclosure, 6.3% were physical losses and 5.6% were improper physical transfers. The remaining violations were uncategorized or still pending determination.
SOURCE: Federal News Network by Ned Butler – April 24, 2026
Compliance with the Defense Department's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program is now mandatory for any defense industrial base (DIB) organization that wants to maintain or win DoD contracts. CMMC is based on the 110 security controls documented in the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Special Publication 800-171, Revision 2, or Rev. 2. Even while many DIB companies are still hurrying to get their businesses compliant with this standard, the DoD is preparing to update requirements to align with the next version of SP 800-171: Rev 3.
A snapshot of NIST's Rev. 3
Published in May 2024, Rev. 3 updates the security requirements for protecting controlled unclassified information (CUI) in non-federal systems. It adds three new security control "families" to the 11 included in Rev. 2, emphasizing supply chain security, incident response and countering advanced threats. Rev. 3 also aligns more closely with the control structure and terminology of the widely adopted NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 standard that details requirements for protecting information systems' confidentiality, integrity and availability.
SOURCE: Federal Trade Commission by BCP Staff – April 30, 2026
There's a new text scam the FTC is hearing about. It involves fake recruiters offering fake jobs, stealing real money. Here's how these scams work — and how to avoid them.
The (fake) recruiters claim to be with legit companies you might know and say they're hiring for jobs you can do from home like "online assessor" or just simply a "remote position." They'll often mention pay (sometimes daily or weekly rates) without any details on the actual job.
And in a new twist, instead of asking you to click a link, they'll ask you to reply with "YES" or "INTERESTED." Don't do this, no matter how "professional" the graphics or message looks and sounds. They want you to engage so they can scam you.
SOURCE: Federal Trade Commission by BCP Staff – April 27, 2026
If you're on social media, you know posts from friends and family might not be the only ones on your newsfeed -scammers are there too. FTC data shows that losses to scams on social media have been increasing dramatically since 2020 - people reported losing $2.1 billion to these scams in 2025 alone. The FTC's new data spotlight brings to light some of the insights about what scams people experience on social media. Keep reading to learn how to scroll past the scams.
Here's what we know about the top scams that started on apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, or Instagram:
SOURCE: CNN by Eric Levenson – May 2, 2026
The man accused of killing two graduate students in Florida asked ChatGPT questions about guns and disposing humans in the garbage, according to court documents. Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/AP
Days before two University of South Florida graduate students went missing last month, a roommate of one of the students allegedly asked the AI chatbot ChatGPT an unusual question.
"What happens if a human has a put (sic) in a black garbage bag and thrown in a dumpster," Hisham Abugharbieh asked on April 13, according to an affidavit filed by Florida prosecutors.
ChatGPT responded it sounded dangerous, the document states, and Abugharbieh then asked another question: "How would they find out."
Those alleged entries to ChatGPT, included in court documents charging Abugharbieh with two counts of first-degree murder, are just the latest instance of investigators using AI chat histories as evidence in criminal investigations. A ChatGPT conversation was similarly used in the Los Angeles wildfires arson case, and a Snapchat AI conversation was key evidence in a 2024 murder trial in Virginia.
SOURCE: CDSE
Jareh Sebastian Dalke is a former U.S. Army enlisted soldier who worked as a civilian Information Systems Security Designer at the National Security Agency (NSA). Dalke held a Top Secret clearance and maintained access to Sensitive Compartmented Information.
Dalke began working at the NSA on June 6, 2022, and shortly thereafter requested a 9month leave of absence to help a family member with a medical condition. On June 28, 2022, after his extended leave request was denied, Dalke submitted his resignation and was officially terminated on July 1, 2022. However, during his short tenure, Dalke printed and improperly retained three classified documents.
