Defending Encryption? In France, It Could Start Costing you
A new French law would impose penalties and fines on smartphone manufacturers who refuse to hand over encrypted information to law enforcement in terrorism...
Terrorism: Agriculture Should Have No Less Concerns
The US House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security’s Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications Subcommittee recently held a hearing to examine the threat level...
Turkey Seeks Urban and National Security Systems
It seems that no country in the world is safe of terrorism nowadays with radical and extremist organizations popping up at every continent...
McAfee: US Government Technologically “Illiterate”
The infamous John McAfee has lambasted the US government as being so technologically “illiterate” and so incompetent at protecting the country’s digital assets that...
Components of ISIS IEDs Found To Be Made In US
A crucial component ISIS uses to control its roadside bombs is made by American companies, a new report reveals.
Conflict Armament Research (CAR) spent 20...
Big Data Revives Crime Prevention
In simpler times, policing was about maintaining presence in a community. A local cop could know everyone and everything in his neighbourhood. And that’s...
Harvard: US Can’t Ban Encryption
US can’t be successful in banning encryption as it is a global phenomenon, according to Harvard study.
Despite over two years’ efforts by the...
What to Expect From Tomorrow’s Conference?
While each person might define it in different terms, Big Data is basically this: A collection of data from traditional and digital sources for...
Big Data – Big Brother’s Appetite Grows Steadily
By Arie Egozi
“Big Brother” likes his information in large quantities, but neat so he won’t have any trouble seeing what is important. This is...
So What Is Big Data Good For, Anyway?
Think Big Data is some indecipherable discipline completely divorced from your everyday concerns? Or maybe you know that it does some good, but you’re...
Big Data Will Protect Megacities
Urban living is soon to become the dominant form of human habitation. In 2014, more than half the global population resided in cities. It’s...
Hacking The Grid Through Air Conditioners
With the months long power outage in Crimea, the world saw how easy it is to leave an entire region with no electricity. Attacks...
Obama wants YOU for US CyberCorps!
President Barack Obama’s administration released the presidential Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) this week. CNAP is an attempt to fix the broken federal information...
The “inspiration” for 9/11
Osama bin Laden was “inspired” to concoct the 9/11 plot during a chance conversation about a plane crash into the Atlantic Ocean. While discussing...
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...
Transportation of Tomorrow: Biometric Airports
Air travel now is so ridiculously cheap, the biggest obstacle to speedy travel is the congestion at checkpoints at airports. As more and more...
Record Number Of Terrorism Suspects Arrested In UK
According to the UK Home Office, a record number of terrorism suspects - 315 in total - were arrested in the past year in...
Hezbollah Drug, Money-Laundering Operation Uncovered
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...
EMP Could Toast Electrical Grid (And How To Protect Against It)
Canada and the United States are vulnerable to cataclysmic threat that could “topple the pillar of civilization,” according to Dr Peter Pry, head of...
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...
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...
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