Pinkerton Insights Podcast

In the UK last week, the South Western Railway canceled 50% of its services until on the second, due to the strike organized by the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers. In Tunisia, Interim President Mohamed Ennaceur announced recently that the current national state of emergency would be extended until December 31, 2019. In South Africa, hundreds of women demonstrated against gender violence at the central business district of Cape Town last week.   As reported last week, Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered that malicious websites have been exploiting around 14 iPhone iOS vulnerabilities since September 2016. Last week, open sources reported that malicious actors successfully deceived the manager of a UK-based energy firm into transferring over 240,000 dollars US using a deep fake voice attack. In China last week, it was disclosed that the Chinese deep fake application Zao, that was launched on August 30, is likely to infringe the privacy of its users.