Unidentified Wealthifying Object
With all the tedious inevitability of an unloved season – as one Hugo Drax might have put it – here...
Articles
Fake news: World tour
Regrettably, the coronavirus crisis has proven a fertile breeding ground for fake news and scams. It originated from America… it...
Super Smish Bros
Aside from phishing, hacking, vishing, ransomware, malware, social engineering, insider threats and state-sponsored espionage, a new threat is fast rising:...
Money laundering: not just a game
The virtual world is the latest frontier in the fight against money-laundering. The vastly popular video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive...
Stranger Than Fiction
For those of us in lockdown and looking to binge on the latest boxsets, Netflix’s ‘Narcos’ is likely to be...
Attempted Death on The Nile
Sudanese President Abdullah Hamdok has survived an attempt on his life. An assault through guns and explosives against his motorcade...
Isabel dos Santos: Lessons Learned?
Promoting herself as a ‘self-made’ billionaire, Isabel dos Santos (IDS) is now a target of the Angolan government since the...
An Iranian Spring on the horizon?
When news broke out that President Trump had signed off on the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, followed by Iran’s...
Why intelligence should never be politicized
As geopolitics and the rise of business-is-war raises tensions and concerns, the business world has hit upon what seems to...
It’s A Hard NOC Life
The digital era is kind to the armchair detective – with a world of information available at the touch of...
Travelex hack: the road to nowhere…
A few years ago, the German and Russian secret services invested in typewriters, to ensure that their communications could not...
Don’t bank on it!
Recently, the Australian bank Westpac was accused of facilitating the single biggest case of money laundering in the country’s history....
Malta Mark II
It has been two years since investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb after exposing the...
Of Mice and Conmen
If you are a university professor widely regarded for his work on money laundering, corruption and organised crime, and you...
A President for the Future
In a political environment light on policy and heavy on rhetoric and tribalism, a refreshing back marker in the Democratic...
