A recent academic paper titled "Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy" aims to provide an explanation for why certain Internet disinformation attacks have significant destabilizing effects in the US, …
The Navy’s vision in a new era of information warfare
The US Navy has released its new broad strategy for the domain of information warfare in the "Navy Cryptologic Cyber Warfare Community Vision." While the document contains few details, it mentions …
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The Security Clearance Process Is About to Get Its Biggest Overhaul in 50 Years
The US federal government will soon release Trusted Workforce 2.0, which represents a major overhaul of the security clearance process that in its current state has lead to long delays, thereby …
UN Aviation Agency Concealed Serious Hack: Media
According to Radio-Canada, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which is part of the United Nations (UN), experienced the the "most serious cyberattack in its history" in November of …
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Businesses need to rethink security priorities due to shifting trends
Cyberattacks involving the psychological manipulation of targeted users, which is known as social engineering, have surged in 2018, a new Trend Micro report has found. According to the report, the …
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40% of malicious URLs were found on good domains
A new Webroot report provides valuable insights into the threat landscape. The report contains various striking findings, including the fact that 2 out of 5 (40%) malicious URLs can be found on …
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Bots Plague Ticketing Industry
A new report by Distil Networks shows that ticketing companies are getting overwhelmed by malicious bots. Bad bot traffic now makes up 39.9% of all ticketing traffic, which is far higher than the …
Chinese Cyber-Espionage Group Customizes Old, Public Tools
Researchers with SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have been tracking ATP27, a cyber-espionage group thought to operate out of China. ATP27 was first spotted in 2013 and is also known as Bronze …
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The Chinese Threat – An OODA Research Report
OODA Loop is pleased to announce the version 1.0 release of our China Threat report. This members only special report captures insights into the capabilities and intent of the Chinese government, …
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Attackers continue to enhance their performance, apply smart business techniques
A new report by Netscout indicates that the global threat landscape in the second half of 2018 was characterized by "attacks on steroids." Over that period, the company tracked 35 advanced persistent …