Cyber-Psychology: The Underestimated Threat
Cybercrime has only of recent years, been recognised for the seriousness of its capabilities of harm to businesses and individuals....
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Political Risk Advisory: Russia – October 2021
"In September of this year, Russia held their legislative elections, where 450 seats of the State Duma (the Russian parliament)...
Political Risk Advisory Briefing: Philippines
"It takes quite something for a potential national leader to glorify violence and illegality and ride this wave to election...
Puppi Love
Influencing, it seems, is a young man’s game. When the pandemic lockdowns hit, influencers were suddenly at great pains to...
Theranos, The Mad Titan?
The much-delayed trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is underway, potentially providing fascinating insight into the biggest American corporate scandal...
Malta Mark 111
In February of this year, one of the men accused of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia changed his plea...
Political Risk Advisory: Afghanistan – September 2021
Political Risk Advisory: Afghanistan. Afghanistan has a possible GAD score of 6. "Not much thought would be required in the...
Political Risk Advisory: Latin America and the Fuel Industry
"Never has there been a better time to seek investment into the Venezuelan market. The country is on its economic...
Afghanistan: The Terrible New Game
On being elected President Biden boastfully announced that America was back. Instead, the stunning events of the past weeks have...
Public Enemies No. 1, 2, 3…
Is the threat picture irrevocably changing? That’s the question posed by Director of MI5, Ken McCallum, in his second yearly...
Currency speculating…
Cryptocurrencies continue to make waves in the vast ocean of the global economy. The concept has taken off massively in...
Kind of Blue (Nile)
Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia have a shared economic and cultural heritage built around the Nile River, which stretches from the...
Smiley’s happy people
The ongoing revelations about the arrest of a security guard at the British Embassy in Berlin, suspected of supplying sensitive...
Afghanistan: intelligence failure or state failure?
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Forget Covid, forget climate change, let the entire 21st century slip by....
The Pegasus Project: Secrets, lies, and mobile spies
Pegasus, the spyware product designed by the Israeli surveillance company NSO has dominated the headlines since its exposure in July...
