The Top 10 Threats to Executives in 2025
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The Top 10 Threats to Executives in 2025

ByPrivacyStan

The Top 10 Threats to Executives in 2025: From Boardrooms to Backyards The risks executives face are no longer confined to boardrooms or earnings calls. They emerge from digital exposure, escalate through online chatter, and manifest as physical danger. ObscureIQ’s 2025 Executive Threat Matrix maps the ten most pressing risks. Each one is scored on…

Weaponized Purpose: How Data Collected to Help Us Becomes Data Used Against Us
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Weaponized Purpose: How Data Collected to Help Us Becomes Data Used Against Us

ByPrivacyStan

Data starts with intent. It’s collected to protect, connect, and improve our lives. But once shared, that same data moves through brokers, algorithms, and surveillance systems. Adapting to new incentives. Weaponized Purpose reveals how twelve common data categories evolve from helpful to harmful, showing the real-world systems that turn ordinary information into instruments of control….

The Executive Threat Matrix: How Data Wipes Shift the Risk
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The Executive Threat Matrix: How Data Wipes Shift the Risk

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The Executive Threat Matrix: How Data Wipes Shift the Risk Executives face ten major categories of threat in 2025. Each carries a different blend of risk — how often it happens — and severity — how damaging it is when it does. The chart below from ObscureIQ’s Executive Threat Matrix makes one truth unmistakable: most…

Signals in Plain Sight (Covert Communication Channels)
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Signals in Plain Sight (Covert Communication Channels)

ByPrivacyStan

At ObscureIQ, we’re rolling out ThreatWatch. It’s our new active threat monitoring service.  Looking for threats forces us to think differently. About how signals get buried. Hidden in places most people overlook. What looks like harmless chatter, a playful meme, or even a gaming mod can sometimes carry a very different meaning. The new language…

Brokers & Doxxers: From Exposure to Exploitation
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Brokers & Doxxers: From Exposure to Exploitation

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Brokers & Doxxers: From Exposure to Exploitation Every week we hear from clients who discover their address, phone number, or family details floating around online. Sometimes it’s buried in a data broker’s report. Other times it’s blasted out on social media in a doxxing attack. At first glance, these seem like two separate worlds: Data…