Pinkerton Insights Podcast

Each week, we break down international news into our four quadrants of risk and present ways to mitigate those risks. See below for the key issues from this week’s edition:  technology and information risks: - Per reports on February 6, 2018, a researcher at Google’s Project Zero found a flaw in Grammarly that would allow cyber-criminals access to user data. - On February 5, the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission, a city regulatory body that governs election conduct, accused Facebook of violating a city law requiring disclosure of political and election ad purchases. - On February 8, 2018, the source code of the March 2016 iOS 9.3 iBoot, Apple’s iOS secure bootloader, was discovered leaked online on GitHub. - Per media reports, Cloud-Access Security Broker (CASB) Bitglass detected new ransomware, called SherL0ck, which was able to bypass Google Drive's and Microsoft Office 365’s cloud antivirus protections. operational and physical risks: - On February 1, 2018, the Supreme Court of the Maldives ordered