Security

U.S. aware of CIA security breach in 2016; contractors suspected in leak

John Walcott and Andrea Shalal, Reuters
March 8, 2017
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Wednesday they have been aware since the end of last year of a security breach at the CIA and were focusing on contractors as the likeliest source of documents being passed on to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks detailing the agency's hacking tools.

Fed records show dozens of cybersecurity breaches

Reuters
June 1, 2016
The U.S. Federal Reserve detected more than 50 cyber breaches between 2011 and 2015, with several incidents described internally as "espionage," according to Fed records.

Precedent setting data breach case

Jonathan Stempel, Reuters
December 9, 2015
The Federal Trade Commission has settled a lawsuit accusing hotel group Wyndham Worldwide Corp of failing to properly safeguard customer information, in a case arising from three data breaches affecting more than 619,000 customers.

U.S. technology reputation on the line

Goldcore
February 17, 2015
A new NSA spying scandal is emerging from the woodwork, highlighting the scale of cyberwars.

Cyber attacks growing: Entire Western financial system vulnerable

GoldCore.com
January 28, 2015
The threat posed by cyber war to our increasingly complicated, technologically dependent and vulnerable financial institutions, markets, banks and indeed deposits becomes more clear by the day.

Bitcoin rebound might be nearing its end

Mike McAra
January 23, 2015
Could Bitcoin's brief heyday be slowing down after security risks?

Probability, predictability, price and forecasting: Silver

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
March 21, 2014
The negative price action of gold and silver should be no surprise to those watching Ukraine.

Energy companies pull a Blackwater

Daniel J. Graeber of Oilprice.com
June 27, 2013
Norwegian energy company Statoil said last week it was forming a special operations division to handle emergency operations in response to a terrorist attack on a natural gas facility in Algeria.

Money is debt, gold is money

Mark Motive
Alex Alibi
March 6, 2013
In the investing world, you can take a three-month view, a three-year view or a 30-year view. One person looking at one asset class might have a different forecast depending on the time horizon he is considering. In this article, I will look at gold through a 30-year lens.

No security for raw materials supply

Richard Mills
February 4, 2013
The truth, in regards to the world’s mineral resources, is that we in the western developed countries are not in control of supply. There are many serious concerns in regards to global resource extraction that we need to consider.