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Tyco Innovation, a branch of that global leader in fire and security solutions, has snagged up some inventive Israeli startups that could help save...
Big Data Will Protect Megacities
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IoT Could Be Used To Spy On People
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Soon Drones Could 3D Print Buildings
Swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) will soon be printing emergency shelter for survivors of natural disasters, or buildings, or any large structure. This...
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Could New York Be Under Attack?
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Israel’s First Accelerator For A Smart and Safe City
The city of Herzliya is now opening registration for batch 3 of HAC Vertical Accelerator for smart and safe cities. The accelerator, an initiative...
Hackers Made Off With Massive FBI, DHS Employee Database
A rogue hacker group managed to penetrate the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secure network and make off with a database containing the...
The Bottleneck in Big Data Use for Homeland Security
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Big data has been at the forefront of intelligence, police, and even border control for a while. It is changing the way organizations...
The Fight For Mandating UAV Training
The US Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) think all unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) owners should be required to pass an online training course to...
Don’t Panic: The Web Is Not ‘Going Dark’
More widespread use of encryption in software will not make the internet “go dark,” nor will it hamper law enforcement investigations into crime and...
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According to the UK Home Office, a record number of terrorism suspects - 315 in total - were arrested in the past year in...
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced a “significant enforcement activity,” including arrests targeting Lebanese Hezbollah’s External Security Organization Business Affairs Component (BAC), which...
Snowden Casts Doubt On ISIS Encryption Video
ISIS likes to tout itself as extremely technologically proficient. The organisation releases apps, instructions on online behaviour, and has recently released a video showing...
DHS $6 Billion Firewall Is Full Of Holes
A Department of Homeland Security firewall, meant to detect and prevent hacking attempts by nation-states against the US government, is apparently not very good...
DHS Is Calling For Ways Of Improvement
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a request for information, stating that it wants businesses to present it with their most cutting-edge...
Airbus To Release Anti-UAV System
Many defence experts are worried about the increasing prevalence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and their potential to be used for spying or terrorist...
1,282 People From State Sponsors of Terror Overstayed Visas
A recent US Department of Homeland Security report on visa entry/exit overstays for fiscal year 2015 highlights glaring deficiencies in enforcement, with 1,282 individuals...
How Far Can Authorities Take Civil Surveillance?
We’ve written before about government tracking of citizens’ mobile phone through devices such as the Stingray. The Anaheim, California Police Department has revealed that...
French PM: Migration crisis might destroy Europe
Europe cannot take in all the refugees fleeing war-torn Syria and Iraq and the migration crisis is putting the European Union in grave danger,...
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Europe is beginning to understand the threat it is under, but in practice little is being done.
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