Counter Terror

Things like lightning fast DNA processing, biometrics recognition based on iris scans, thumbprint or voice patterns and video face recognition from vast distances seemed...

The Winter Olympics will take place in South Korea during February, and the country is planning to deploy 10,000 police officers in and around...

The growing threat of radical terrorism and organized crime in Sweden has sparked government-led homeland security initiatives to finance projects driven by advanced technology....

The ongoing perceived terrorist threat in Germany - and especially Berlin, has led to a decision to enhance the country’s anti-terror squad. Germany's elite...

Turkey bolstered domestic efforts to advance its national defense industry in recent years, particularly the development of indigenous UAVs, which have been considered a...

Terrorist vehicle attacks in various cities around the world during recent years have emphasized the urgent need in the development of defense systems. Anti-crash...

Last week, 13 drones were flown from the Idlib area in Syria to targets about 50 kilometers from there, and tried to attack Russian...

Mobile apps often serve for monitoring and managing machines, and even entire industrial processes. However, the combination of apps and industrial control systems makes...

In recent years we are experiencing a change in the way armies do battle around the globe: there are no more tanks-on-tanks clashes and...

In the wake of the January 6 drone attacks on Russian facilities in Syria, head of the Russian General Staff's department for the development...

Airport security first came to the public eye on September 11, 2001, when 4 airplanes were hijacked and crashed into U.S targets, killing almost...

Approaching suspected materials in order to check them is not always possible without risk. A new technology for the stand-off detection of trace quantities...

The FBI had been unable to access data from 7,775 devices in fiscal year 2017, a growing figure causing setbacks in cases from terrorism...

Saudi Arabia has reportedly shown interest in purchasing Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system, as reported by Swiss newspaper Basler Zeitung. The two regimes are...

Video released recently appears to show Houthi forces seizing a US Navy unmanned underwater vehicle in waters off the coast of Yemen. The video shows...

The use of drones by militants in the battlefield persists also in Syria. Russian forces have foiled a drone attack on an airbase in...

The recent protests in Iran and the regime’s attempts to block them shed light also on Tehran’s cyber capabilities. Offensive cyber operations have become...

Body armor is not all about stopping bullets. There are many factors that affect how wearable armor is, which in turn impacts how and...

MIT researchers are working to create "soft," wearable robots. Robotics researcher Shuguang Li and his team develop the material for a new breed of...

There are growing concerns in the US that terrorists and spies could use remotely piloted unmanned aircraft for surveillance, espionage and attacks, from monitoring...

The growing use of cheap and accessible commercial drones and the involvement of terrorist and criminal actors have been increasing the threat to security...

DARPA has been accelerating its efforts to develop tactics for deploying swarms of unmanned aircraft and ground vehicles to help U.S. soldiers in urban...