This blog highlights the FireFox Lightbeam tool that shows how many third party sites that are viewing your activity when you visit a given website. I also discuss the only way to mitigate this ubiquitous monitoring—perfecting your OPSEC and managing your online fingerprint.
When conducting intelligence operations, it is important to avoid attention.We have all heard the advice, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do,” but how do we achieve that when we are in Rome.com? What different factors will make us stand out from the crowd and attract unwanted attention during online operations? ...
Sometimes the best way to understand how a solution might work for you is to see how it was used by someone else. One of our customers kindly gave us permission to use them in an anonymous case study.
If you read the first blogs of this series, you know what misattribution is, why it’s important, and the various technical and non-technical elements that go into it. You know when to manage your attribution, why that’s often a better choice than being anonymous, and some kinds of tools available to...
In part three of four of our series on misattribution, I’ll explore non-technical misattribution: basically, everything that identifies someone online other than the information that computers and networks reveal.
Technical misattribution is the process of masking the identifying information that computers and networks reveal. In part two of this four-part series, I will take a look at technical misattribution specifically.
Misattribution is a term used mostly within the national security community to refer to activities conducted under some kind of assumed identity. In this four-part series, I will go into detail about digital misattribution, operational misattribution, and misattribution challenges.
Find out how the internet has changed from its inception to now, and what privacy considerations these changes create.
Many criminal investigations now take place online. Online investigators require different tools, skills, and best practices than in traditional investigations.
When you’re setting up a managed attribution (MA) system for your specific mission, there are many different factors to consider that will determine your requirements. There is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to covert online operations. Every mission scenario or situation requires its own set-up. It is important to...
