GEOInsights - week ending: Friday 19th August 2022
Curated By Iain Fraser - Consultant Geopolitical Editor
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Welcome to GEOInsights for the week ending 19 August 2022. Our trending posts are a valuable guide to the weeks Geopolitical landscape and never more than thus! Of course the headlines are quite rightly given to Ukraine and the diminutive despot [sic] Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion of its neighbouring sovereign state. Putin's "justification" for the invasion was to rid Europe of Nazism inter alia NATO has been met with stoicism and strength and not only should the Ukraine military´s resolve but also the resolve of the Ukraine people is to applauded and is sure to enter the annals of history.
However, over in the Cybersecurity sphere IBM released their latest Cost of Data Breach [CDB] Report for 2022 has discovered that the average total cost of a data breach has reached $4.35 Million [€4.2 Million] and Intelligence heavyweights Recorded Future´s threat research division InsiktGroup revealed that RedAlpha the Chinese sponsored cybercrime group has been conducting a "multi-year credential theft campaign" targeting humanitarian groups, think tanks and Governments for years - as its designated title would suggest.
On the bright side UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the assemble media at a press conference in Ukraine yesterday [18/08/2022] that the Black Sea Grain Initiative had been a "victory for diplomacy"
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GEO´ Trending News & Analysis
⇒ UKRAINE: Black Sea initiative hailed a victory for diplomacy Guterres
⇒ CYBER BREACH: RedAlpha - Chinese sponsored cyber-crime group been hacking for years
⇒ TAIWAN: Post Pelosi - Taiwan starts formal trade talks with US
⇒ WEBINAR: Crisis24 - Intelligence Briefing: Preparing for Conflict
⇒ DATA BREACH: IBM - The average cost of a Data Breach in 2022 reaches all-time high
⇒ EVENT: Summit of the Americas vs. CELAC - Geopolitical Economy Research Group
⇒ ENERGY: ARAMCO trounces its own profits record
GEO´ Videowall
⇒ VIDEOWALL: Renewable Power Remains Cost-Competitive amid Fossil Fuel Crisis - IRENA
⇒ VIDEOWALL: UN - Strengthening multilateralism 'only way' to peaceful world - Guterres
