Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Infosheet
In 2014, London-based data analytics and political profiling firm Cambridge Analytica gained access to the personal data of over 50 million Facebook users and used that information to match profiles ...
Posts for category: Global Weekly Executive Summaries
Global Weekly Executive Summary, 20 March 2018
DHS and FBI Alert Warns of Russian Government Cyberattacks Targeting Critical Infrastructure On Thursday, March 15, 2018, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of ...
Global Weekly Executive Summary, 09 FEB 2017
Spearphising the Olympics A recent report by security software company McAfee reveals that unknown hackers launched a spearphishing campaign targeting organizations preparing for the 2018 Winter ...
Strava Fitness App’s Global Heatmap Reveals Sensitive Locations
Strava, “the social network for athletes,” released an updated version of their Global Heatmap that improved the quality and resolution of their maps in ways that can reveal information about ...
TheUniversity of Hawaii system suffered a data breach as the result of a spear phishing campaign that exposed personal information of up to 2,400 faculty, staff, students, and student applicants. The ...
Global Weekly Executive Summary, 19 JAN 2018
Dark Caracal Summary A newly discovered global cyberespionage threat group has ties to a government intelligence agency in Lebanon, according to a joint report from Lookout Mobile Security and ...
The New Vulnerabilities Equities Policy and Process Charter
An updated “Vulnerabilities Equities Policy and Process for the United States Government” charter was released on 15 NOV 2017 and describes the decision-making process for determining whether new ...
Global Weekly Executive Summary, 09 NOV 2017
Chinese APTs Renew Corporate Espionage Operations Against US Companies Two years after the US and China agreed not to conduct or support cyber operations against each other in ways that would ...
Global Weekly Executive Summary, 20 OCT 2017
British Intelligence Suspects Iran in Parliament Email Attacks British intelligence now suspects that Iran was the source of the June 2017 brute force attacks against 9,000 UK Parliament email ...
Global Weekly Executive Summary, 13 October 2017
New Security Problem for Equifax Website On Wednesday, 11 October, a security researcher documented that the Equifax website was redirecting customers looking for credit reports to to a webpage ...