Since yesterday, on the day when a new president took the helm in Costa Rica, a state of emergency was declared in the country based on the impact cyber-attack by the Russia-affiliated Conti Ransomware Gang. ...
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The Department of State is offering a reward of up to $10,000,000 for information leading to the identification and/or location of any individual(s) who hold a key leadership position in the Conti ransomware variant transnational ...
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Since our expanded coverage in July of last year of Project Pegasus - a cadre of global news organization's exhaustive investigation of the Pegasus “zero click” surveillance software - there have been many developments related ...
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OODA Loop readers will know more than most the two biggest uses of the term "Open Source." We frequently write about both. In the context of intelligence, Open Source means information that does not come ...
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In Part I of this series, we took a look at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Insider Threat Roadmap 2020 and advanced analytics. Following are two more initiatives that are thinking differently about insider threat ...
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DHS calls it MDM, “mis- dis- and mal-information,” and according to the Feb. 7th National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin - February 07, 2022 (which is released quarterly), it is the greatest terrorism threat to the ...
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We continue our effort to underscore certain patterns and themes found throughout the OODAcast library of over 80 conversations with leaders and decision-makers.
In May of 2020, OODA CTO Bob Gourley had a ...
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On January 19th, the President signed National Security Memorandum (NSM) 8, “Improving the Cybersecurity of National Security, Department of Defense and Intelligence Community Systems”.
NSM8 appeared to have been inspired by Project Warp Speed - specifically, ...
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The reality is 34% of all breaches in 2018 were caused by insiders, yet less than 20% of U.S. organizations possess effective security programs to combat it. The results range from information leakage and ...
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A recent CSET Issue Brief takes a very quant-based approach to create a snapshot of the international Ph.D. graduate students trained in the U.S. For years, the conventional wisdom has been that a) Domestic ...
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