This very thorough report offers insight into the future of the Mobile trends of 2019.

Upon request by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), New Knowledge reviewed an expansive data set of social media posts and metadata provided to SSCI by Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet, plus a set of related data from additional platforms. The data sets were provided by the three primary platforms to serve as evidence for an investigation into the Internet Research Agency (IRA) influence operations.

This report provided by Oxford University provides research data into the Russian involvement in the United States election process.

This report explores Brexit-related Twitter activity occurring between December 4, 2018 and February 13, 2019. Using the standard Twitter API, researchers collected approximately 24 million tweets that matched the word “brexit” published by 1.65 million users.

This paper demonstrates vulnerabilities that affect numerous traders. Among them are unencrypted authentication, communications, passwords, and trading data; remote DoS that leaves applications useless; trading programming languages that allow DLL imports; insecurely implemented chatbots; weak password policies; hardcoded secrets; and poor session management. In addition, many applications lack countermeasures, such as SSL certificate validation and root detection in mobile apps, privacy mode to mask sensitive values, and anti-exploitation and antireversing mitigations.

State of Cybersecurity 2019 reports the results of the annual ISACA global State of Cybersecurity Survey, conducted in November 2018. While some findings pointed to unforeseen trends, many survey results reinforce previous years’ findings—specifically that the need for trained and experienced cybersecurity professionals vastly outweighs the supply. State of Cybersecurity 2019 provides a distinctive view of cybersecurity from the perspective of those who define the field—cybersecurity managers and practitioners. This is the first report based on the survey, which focuses on the current trends in cybersecurity workforce development, staffing, budget and gender diversity.

NopSec has pioneered the research, measurement, and analytics of vulnerability threats since 2013. Its annual State of Vulnerability Risk Management reports are widely used and cited in the cybersecurity industry for its insights and actionable information. As presented in this report, vulnerability threats are ever more expanding and evolving, and NopSec is once again leading the research for new ways to expose these threats and protect valuable assets from getting compromised.

From the report, “All three of our stories in this issue of the State of the Internet / Security report are about things most organizations aren’t examining. Whether the cause is that organizations don’t perceive some issues as important to their environment, if they don’t have tooling to monitor these issues, or if the resources to monitor this traffic are not available, this traffic is often being overlooked.”

The 2018 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), has been and continues to be one of the flagship strategic products for Europol. It provides a unique law enforcement focused assessment of the emerging threats and key developments in the field of cybercrime over the last year.

To better understand what government employees know (and don’t know) about data privacy and cybersecurity awareness, we surveyed 1,016 U.S.- based employees who work for local, state, and federal government entities. We then compared the results against a broader sample of employed U.S. adults that took the same survey, the results of which we featured in our 2017 State of Privacy and Security Awareness report.

From the report, “Our State of Privacy and Security Awareness Report is back for a third year in a row, having originally been launched in 2016 due to the need to gain a better understanding of the cybersecurity knowledge of today’s workforce. Fast forward to 2018, and the need for such a resource has never been more important. Human-caused data breaches are still making headlines, and phishy emails are still letting the bad guys in. Increasingly popular cloud-storage tools are making it easier than ever to put sensitive data at risk, IOT devices are providing new inroads for the bad guys, and new breeds of malware continue to evolve on a daily basis. One thing connects these threats: the role that employees play in keeping their organizations secure. So, without further ado, we’re pleased to announce the results of the 2018 State of Privacy and Security Awareness Report.”

This infographic offers insights relating to the European Cybersecurity regulations.

This report takes a closer look at the threat of friendly fraud, by first explaining the spectrum of friendly fraud and exploring whether merchants and issuers are in fact “training” cardholders to initiate disputes. It also examines the balancing act that merchants and issuers must navigate while trying to reduce friendly fraud, while also preserving important customer relationships. Lastly, it details how two companies are addressing the problem, and then outlines six best practices for controlling the damage.

This very thorough report offers insight into how criminals take advantage of technology. It also reports on how breakthrough technologies can help financial institutions achieve better results with fewer staff.

As the end of 2018 approaches and the last year of the decade dawns, the challenges faced by cyber security teams are a blend of “more of the same” and “let’s change the approach”.

This helpful guide provides insight into the settings you should maintain on all of the major social networks. Read on to learn more.

As more people become connected on social platforms, cyber criminals find themselves with more numerous and accessible potential targets than ever before. Over a 4 month period in 2015, the ZeroFOX Research Team built a machine learning classifier and identified thousands scams targeting major financial institutions and their customers across Instagram. The results of the study shine a light on a growing problem with serious impacts on financial institutions’ bottom lines.

This report offers the following highlights - Case study of a Fortune 50 organization breached via social media, Deep dive into each layer of the new attack chain, A detailed look at impersonation accounts and hijacked accounts, a new staple in the attack lifecycle, Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by the modern attacker on social media, Recommendations and best practices for updating your security posture.

Fraudulent accounts run rampant on social media. But what are they up to, what cyber attacks are they launching? ZeroFOX Research investigates 40,000 fake accounts to find out.

This report offers insights into brand protection in the modern age of social media threats. It offers insights into brand protection, why you need to protect your brand, risks to a brand, the benefits of brand protection, the current state of brand protection and how to build a brand protection program.

Social media has become a major platform for financial institutions to engage customers, grow their business, and promote offers and services. However, scammers and cybercriminals have adopted the platform as well, exploiting the low technical barriers, ease of target acquisition, ease of payload delivery, and broad access to potential victims.