Counter Terror

In this weekly episode (02 Sep 2014): - NSA and its new tracking software - Undersea sensors - GHOST: The unmanned system - Domestic extremists - Ambulance drivers safety תוכנה...

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,...

A Syrian Air force unmanned air system (UAS) that entered the Israeli airspace was shot down by a Patriot missile. // The  Iranian-made UAV...

Secretary   of  State John Kerry urge world powers to unite against "the cancer f ISIS",  saying the only way to defeat tem is for...

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...

Privacy? Gone forever. Police in Tacoma, Washington, bought - and quietly used for six years - surveillance equipment that can sweep up records of every...

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...

Terrorist organizations have adopted social media as a tool for spreading propaganda and recruiting new members. Social media allow terrorist groups to interact with...

Syria conflict: Islamic State seizes Tabqa airbase. Fighters from Islamic State (IS) have taken control of a key Syrian government airbase, activists say. The...

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...

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...

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...

A review of counter-espionage and counter-terror intelligence agencies use to intercept suspects' cellular, data and internet activities

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...

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...

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,...

Moroccan security forces two weeks ago arrested a French jihadist who was operating in the country to recruit fighters in order to send them...

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...

Now that the world has finally turned its attention to the carnage sweeping through northern Iraq, many are struggling to place the perpetrators - the...

Intelligence agencies generate massive amounts of information. How can experts avoid getting flooded by the endless stream of data, and instead use it to...

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...

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...