Strategy

The first lesson I was ever taught in programming is the need for scaffolding. Just like painting a house, even if you are certain you can reach every nook and […]

In 1896, at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, a young economist by the name of Vilfredo Pareto publish a paper showing how 80% of the land in Italy was […]

As a developer and OSINT investigator, I often come across other investigators that are researching a target online and have “hit a wall,” so to speak.  “I’ve hit a dead-end, […]

I had previously written about how we started with our our monitoring platform and how that grew into the beast it is today.  I didn’t leave much room to frame […]

If the world has a plethora of investigators and the success of prosecutors is hovering around 90% success rate  — why do we struggle with an increase in more complex […]

In one case, I found myself in a country in Latin America investigating a complicated persistent business compromise being implemented through both electronic and human means. I had already been […]

Perhaps the most nefarious, these attackers are driven almost exclusively by financial gain. These criminals typically target personal and corporate systems, and range in skill from Nigerian 419 phishers, to […]

Just a couple of weeks ago the world was rocked by the news that CIA Director John Brennan’s AOL email account (apparently that’s still a thing) had been hacked. Immediately, […]

Cyber Threat Types and Motivations There are several types of cyberwars going on at any given time. There are plain old hacking attacks, criminally-targeted attacks, nation state cyberwar, and hacktivist […]