Tag: Counterterrorism
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Albanian Parliament and One Albania Telecom Hit by Cyber Attacks
The Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania have been targeted by cyber attacks, the country’s National …
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FBI Analyst Charged With Stealing Counterterrorism and Cyber Threat Info
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) indicted an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for illegally removing numerous …
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FBI Analyst Charged With Stealing Counterterrorism and Cyber Threats Info
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) indicted an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for illegally removing numerous …
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Hackers Hosed by Google Were a Counterterrorism Operation
Meanwhile, a strain of ransomware called DearCry has been piggybacking off the same Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities originally exploited …
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DHS S&T Announces $35M Funding for New Center of Excellence in Terrorism Prevention and Counterterrorism Research
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced $35 million in funding opportunities for a new …
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What Can We Learn from Counterterrorism and National Security Efforts?
Cyber attacks changed drastically over the last few years. Cyber attackers now focus on disrupting our day-to-day operations or use attacks …
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Traveler who refused to give device passwords to police found guilty of obstruction in UK court
A UK court has reaffirmed the power for state agents to use sweeping counterterrorism legislation to require travelers hand over the passwords for their digital devices for their contents to be searched at borders. A London court today found Muhammad Rabbani guilty of willfully obstructing the police by failing to hand over device passwords and the…
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Data vs. Analysis in Counterterrorism
Data vs. Analysis in Counterterrorism This article argues that Britain’s counterterrorism problem isn’t lack of data, it’s lack of analysis. Read full news article on Schneier on Security
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Europe eyeing direct access to cloud services for police data requests
In the wake of a spate of terror attacks across Europe regional interior ministers have been talking tough on tech. Encryption is one technology that’s been under fire from certain quarters. Read full news article on TechCrunch
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News in brief: spy chief warns on blame; FBI arrests NSA contractor; Japan holds teen on ransomware
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Spy chief warns on the rush to blame The former head of Britain’s security service, Dame Stella Rimington, has warned the authorities not to rush to assign blame or to push through change in the wake of the terror attacks on Manchester and…
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