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Where do they come from? CNN mapped origin countries of jihadists who travel to fight in Syria and Iraq: Tunisia 3,000, Saudia Arabia 2,300,...
IAF shoots down Syrian Yasir UAV
A Syrian Air force unmanned air system (UAS) that entered the Israeli airspace was shot down by a Patriot missile.
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Secretary of State John Kerry urge world powers to unite against "the cancer f ISIS", saying the only way to defeat tem is for...
2013: Most terrorist attacks took place in only a few countries
The majority of terrorist attacks occurring in 2013 remained isolated in just a few countries, according to the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), which is generated by...
Local Cops in the U.S use Super Spy Bug
Privacy? Gone forever.
Police in Tacoma, Washington, bought - and quietly used for six years - surveillance equipment that can sweep up records of every...
Amazon Expands Its Cloud Services to the U.S. Military
Amazon Web Services has become the first commercial cloud provider authorized to handle the Defense Department’s most sensitive unclassified data.
Today’s announcement that AWS has achieved a provisional authority to operate...
Social media grappling with problems posed by terrorists-supporting contents
Terrorist organizations have adopted social media as a tool for spreading propaganda and recruiting new members. Social media allow terrorist groups to interact with...
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Syria conflict: Islamic State seizes Tabqa airbase. Fighters from Islamic State (IS) have taken control of a key Syrian government airbase, activists say. The...
Metal detectors at Yankee Stadium
Fans heading to Yankee Stadium during the team's current homestand will be seeing some new security measures. Beginning this week, the team is adding...
McCain: attack Islamic State in Syria after execution of U.S. photojournalist
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called on President Barack Obama to attack the Islamic State’s stronghold in Syria, after a video was released showing the...
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Iceland issued a red alert to civil aviation following signs of eruption at Vattnejökull. The airspace around the volcano was sealed off, but Iceland's...
iHLS TV Special Edition: Data Visualization, SIGINT, counter-espionage and counter-terror surveillance
A review of counter-espionage and counter-terror intelligence agencies use to intercept suspects' cellular, data and internet activities
DHS, FBI Fear Increasing Attacks by ‘Extremist’ Domestic Anti-Government Groups
According to a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) “Intelligence Assessment,” domestic anti-government “extremists” pose an increasing threat...
Hamas tunnels as war crime
By Dr. Daphné Richemond-Barak, Senior Researcher, ICT
Hamas tunnels have not been seen as a key strategic threat in decades – until they formed the...
The underground threat is not an exclusively Israeli problem
A lot of attention has been paid in the past weeks to Israel's struggle against the terror tunnels employed by Hamas in Gaza. Nevertheless,...
Morocco arrests recruiter involved with French terror network
Moroccan security forces two weeks ago arrested a French jihadist who was operating in the country to recruit fighters in order to send them...
New mobile passport control app available
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced the launch of the first authorized app to expedite a traveler’s entry process into the U.S.
Mobile...
Why ISIL Is Worse Than Other Terrorist Groups
Now that the world has finally turned its attention to the carnage sweeping through northern Iraq, many are struggling to place the perpetrators - the...
Fighting terror and crime using intelligence visualization
Intelligence agencies generate massive amounts of information. How can experts avoid getting flooded by the endless stream of data, and instead use it to...
A middle way for the Gaza fight
by Dr. Max Singer
An attack on the Hamas military leadership and military assets would be a difficult battle, almost certainly causing many Israeli casualties...
The FBI just used facial recognition to catch a fugitive of 14 years
A recent FBI case has proved that the bureau's facial recognition systems works.
The story starts with a fugitive, Neil Stammer, who had been on...
The U.S. needs more drones
Al-Qaeda is morphing and metastasizing, spreading like a cancer in an arc of jihadism from the deserts of Northern Mali through Libya, Nigeria, Somalia,...
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