One of our team members was at a party immediately after the “Collateral Murder” release. There they had the privilege of overhearing some ‘curious’ conversations by known personas. Said personas still had all their mobile devices with them during their travels. That made every device in the room an obvious and valid intelligence target. According …
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Current public analysis of information operations focuses on “hack and leak” operations and ‘inauthentic’ behavior on social media. This level of analysis ignores the pernicious strategic information operations that run across longer time spans. Case in point: We came across one of Dan Nowak’s 2013 keynotes where he touched on IceFog, a Chinese APT. Amongst …
It all started on November 2nd, 1988 when a young grad student named Robert Morris got the brilliant idea to “gauge” the size of the internet. With the push of a button Morris sent his worm across the internet and infected nearly 6,000 systems. For the first time, computer owners began to understand that their …
The story begins with a very recent political summit in Singapore. As oft happens at such an event, there was a give-away schwag bag containing a variety of fabulous gifts such as a small bottle of water, a printed guide to Sentosa, a hand-held President Trump and Kim Jong-un branded fan, and lastly.. a USB/lightning …
A few years ago, a keynote speaker from the Navy shared some wisdom at the RSA conference. He mentioned that their engineers design ships with the assumption that water can leak past the hull. And sure, that seems obvious, right? It’s better to maintain a low level of trust and plan ahead for failure. If only everyone …
Following the Equifax breach people have been calling for a replacement to social security numbers. The successor to social security numbers is already here: it’s mobile phone numbers. This is especially bad if you are a person of interest or a public facing persona. TL;DR: Most systems aren’t designed to deal with attackers taking over …
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As of late, clients from distinct verticals have reached out to our team expressing concerns regarding telemetry-enabled applications. Read the news and consider the timing! Since our multi-disciplinary background gives us a unique perspective, we decided to share some of our thoughts. Enjoy! The advent of telemetry and cloud-enabled detections was a real game changer in …
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