ICT: Cyber-Terrorism Activities Report No. 5
This report covers two main subjects: cyber-terrorism (offensive, defensive, and the media, and the main topics of jihadist discourse); and cyber-crime, whenever and wherever...
The Ivory Curse: Poaching Funds Terror and Conflict
The fight against ivory poaching is fierce. At the headquarters of the Mara Elephant Project, Marc Goss contemplates a jumble of squiggly lines superimposed...
Belgium: Calls for New Homeland Security Department
Bart De Wever, the mayor of Antwerp and the leader of the Flemish nationalist party N-VA, has said that Belgium needs a Homeland Security...
Polish army is looking for a Portable Bomb Disposal
The Armament Inspectorate started a procedure, the aim of which is to acquire bomb disposal robots. The procurement is going to be realized between...
Autonomous Snake-Robot Could Decrease Terror Threat
The Gaza strip tunnels are tuneels being dug by the Hamas and other terror organizations inside the strip as part of their fight against...
French Lifeguards to Patrol Armed This Summer
The vacation season in France is about the start, and the French authorities have decided to place armed police lifeguards – who will also...
Law Enforcement Robotics – New Anti-Terrorist Means
Law enforcement robot markets at $1 billion in 2015 are anticipated to reach $5.7 billion by 2022, according to a new market research report....
Remote Door Breaching – for Use of the Special Units
Door breaching devices are one of the tools used by SWAT teams and other security forces in counter-terrorism and police operations.
India’s security personnel fighting...
Promoting First Responders Advanced Equipment
A new legislation passed recently by the US House of Representatives will make it easier for first responders to acquire new equipment and technologies they need...
In the U.S – Laptops and Cellphones are open for scrutiny
U.S. border agents should continue to be allowed to search a traveler’s laptop, cellphone or other electronic device and keep copies of any data...
Bi-weekly Report – Jihadi Forums
By ICT’s Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group
This report summarizes notable events discussed on jihadist Web forums during the first half of July 2013. Following are...
Rifts in the Global Jihad Family in Syria
By Yoram Schweitzer , Elior Albachari , Ilan Shklarsky
The announcement by al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri that he is severing ties with the group known...
ISIL is Now threatening to assassinate twitter employees
ISIL has already broadly threatened the United States for its airstrikes against the group, infamously killing two American journalists, and threatening to behead a British...
Beheading of a British soldier on a London street foiled in...
Nineteen-year-old Brusthom Ziamani has been sentenced to twenty-seven years in prison after being found guilty of planning to behead a British soldier on the...
Australia Seizes More Than 2,000 Weapons On Boat Bound to Somalia
More than 2,000 weapons including assault rifles, rocket launchers and machine guns were found hidden under fishing nets in a Somalia-bound boat, Australian Navy...
$170 Device Unlocks iPhone In Hours, Took FBI 4 Months
It took almost four months for the FBI to break into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists. Turns out, they...
Vehicle Protection Made Simple
Protecting people while they are on the move has become an increasingly more difficult task. Traditional solutions for this problem were mainly creating a...
Radios failed during Navy Yard attack, emergency responders say
Radios for federal firefighters and police officers failed during Monday’s mass shooting at Washington’s Navy Yard, according to union representatives for first responders.
According to...
U.S. Considers Lifting Ban Blocking Libyans Training in U.S.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is quietly considering lifting a long-standing ban on Libyans coming to the U.S. for training in the aviation...
Fast Draw – Renewed Cement Deliveries to Gaza
Israel will allow renewed deliveries of cement to Gaza, in response to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon's request. This according to a Channel 2...
Closing the Home Front Defense Ministry
Meir Elran , Alex Altshuler
Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan’s letter of resignation and his recommendation that the ministry be closed and its powers...
Hezbollah commander killed in Iraq
Hezbollah celebrated the death of a military "trainer" who was killed recently during fighting against the Islamic State in northern Iraq. The Iranian-backed, Lebanon-based...











































