Live Monitoring Moscow
As follow up to our previous post on the Pussy Riot trial in Moscow, you can track the protests and news live on Recorded Future as we analyze information from across the web in real time. If a hefty...
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Response to the OPSEC Education Fund
Presidential campaigns are always littered with attack ads, and two weeks ago, one of the most interesting thus far came from the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund. The group launched a campaign...
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An Introduction to Recorded Future [Video]
What is Recorded Future? How does it work? Answers in plain English in 90s! Click here to view the video on YouTube.
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The Democrats Directing Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy magazine recently published an impressive list of what it describes as the 50 most powerful Democrats on foreign policy. There’s quite a bit to sift through in this list from the varying...
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Will Foxconn Labor Issues Have Manufacturers Considering China Exit?
Foxconn, the poster company of cheap Chinese manufacturing that supports the global consumer device market, shut down its Taiyuan plant today after about 2,000 workers were involved in a brawl....
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Sentiment in Swing States As a Signal For the US Presidential Election
Many of the polls thus far have been too close to call; the difference between the candidates is more than covered by the margin of error. Even with great meta-analysis from Nate Silver’s fantastic...
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Media Matters for Anti-Corporate Activism
Rebellion against corporate leadership dubbed the “Shareholder Spring” occurred earlier this year. Companies on both sides of the Atlantic felt the heat; British companies removed top executives while...
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Hacktivists Drive Awareness with Steubenville Protests
History is full of instances where products, people, and organizations have found themselves become representative of something greater. Sometimes they enter the popular lexicon as verbs; many describe...
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The Marikana Mine Massacre and South Africa’s Volatile Labor Market
On August 16 of last year, 34 miners on strike at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa, were killed by police. Many more were injured and arrested. The South African government’s inquiry...
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Violence Looms Over Closely Contested Elections in Kenya
[Note: This analysis was conducted with open source data up to and through March 2, 2013.] Since violence erupted after Kenya’s elections in 2007, a combination of wariness about the political process,...
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Monitoring Protest in Egypt
As of July 3, 2013, 1100 ET, Egypt remained in protest. Recorded Future’s below visualization demonstrates social media’s reflection of Protest and Military activity as the Egyptian military’s 48-hour...
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How Al-Qaeda Uses Encryption Post-Snowden (Part 1)
Analysis Summary Since 2007, Al-Qaeda’s use of encryption technology has been based on the Mujahideen Secrets platform which has developed to include support for mobile, instant messaging, and Macs....
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Combating Child Sex Trafficking Through Web Intelligence
Child sex trafficking is one of the most horrific crimes on planet Earth. According to victims’ advocates, most human trafficking is undetected and unreported. Exceptional crimes like the recent Boko...
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Will Egypt’s Presidential Election Bring More Unrest?
On May 26 and 27, Egypt will hold its second presidential election in two years. In 2012, Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi was elected president. This year, the man responsible for deposing...
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How Governments Can Use Web Intelligence for Insights
The following interview is with Simon Thacker and is from our Web Intelligence Perspectives Series. Simon is head of strategic early warning for the UK Cabinet Office. What is it about web intelligence...
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Working With ThreatConnect to Give Cyber Attacks Context
Recorded Future recently partnered with our friends at ThreatConnect to provide geopolitical context to their excellent analysis on cyber espionage in the South China Sea. We love this quote by the...
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4 Ways to Stop APT Attacks Using Web Intelligence
In case you missed it, below is a brief recap of our webinar yesterday with Oren Falkowitz. Oren began with a baseline, observing most efforts to combat APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) focus on...
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Dan Geer on Web Intelligence and Cyber Security
The following interview is with Dan Geer and is from our Web Intelligence Perspectives Series. Dan is currently the chief information security officer for In-Q-Tel. What is it about web intelligence...
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Shedding Light on STTEAM
Researchers from Fidelis Security in February reported a newly identified cyber campaign dubbed STTEAM (PDF) found to be targeting oil and gas companies in the Middle East. The Fidelis team provided...
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Understanding Moroccan Politics With Open Source Intelligence
Analysis Summary Open source intelligence indicates political tensions surrounding the Moroccan Justice and Development Party steadily increased between 2012 and 2013. Open source intelligence also...
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