What Is Big Data Anyway, And Who Needs It?
We keep hearing and reading and talking about Big Data, but when asked what it is all about - can anyone really answer? Is...
India Sets Satellite Station In Vietnam to Monitor China
India will get a strategic toehold in the South China Sea region as its new satellite monitoring station in Vietnam is expected to be...
US To Scrutinise Social Media In Visa Application Reviews
The US Department of Homeland Security is preparing a plan to scrutinise visa applicants’ social media presence before allowing them into the country, the...
MIT Invents A Messaging System More Anonymous Than Tor
Researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new online text messaging...
I-HLS TV Interview – Nir Tel-Oren, IAI
In an interview with I-HLS after the Terrain Dominance conference on December 23rd, Nir Tel-Oren, Senior Director for Group R&D, IAI Mag, spoke about...
Europe Capitals On Alert For Terrorism Attacks Before New Year
Police forces in several European capitals say that they have been advised by a “friendly” intelligence service of the possibility of fresh terror attacks...
Jihadists Plans Are Public – Why Aren’t Authorities Acting?
Recently there have been increasingly vocal calls for weakening encryption heard around the world, with the strongest of them in the US. Federal authorities...
Chinese Political Ideology Database Proposed
Studies in Ideological Education, a Chinese education ministry publication, has published a report with a proposal to track individual university students’ political views using...
A Comprehensive Cyber Attack On ISIS – Pros and Cons
The Pentagon is set to step up its cyber warfare efforts against ISIS, and is arguing that disabling the group’s computers, mobile phones, and...
Big Data Can Help Fight Crime
The amount of data floating around the world is huge. According to some estimates, 4.5 quintillion bytes of data are created daily around the...
How Was Samir Kuntar Killed?
Arie Egozi
How was Samir Kuntar killed, and what does it have to do with Terrain Dominance?
Arab media, including Hezbollah’s Al Manar news network, reported...
Business Joins Academia For Large-Scale Face-Search To Fight Crime, Terrorism
Surveillance cameras are omnipresent on modern life. In a famous example, London, England has one camera for every fourteen residents. The big problem is...
An Exclusive I-HLS Interview With Former Georgian Minister of Defense
Georgia may be on the other side of the Muslim refugees’ path, but that isn’t to say that it hasn’t felt the threat of...
New Tools To Sift Through Data
After major terrorist attacks, pieces of information that could have potentially prevented or mitigated the threat are often found. The problem faced by analysts...
How Can Big Data On Climate Change Help The Planet?
The Earth is big and its climate is complicated, with many different variants to take into account in order to be able to tell...
Fighting Crime With Big Data
by Konstantin Bodragin
Computers predicting crime have become a staple of science fiction films, but it could soon be a reality. The way it works...
Israeli Aerostat SkyStar 180 Will Be Operating During COP21 in Paris
As part of the preparation to COP21, the Paris municipal police will operate for the first time an aerostat system – the SkyStar 180,...
China To Build Spy-proof Smartphones
For years digital security experts have worried over possible backdoors implemented into equipment manufactured at Chinese factories. Over the years there have been several...
Cyber Wars? Not So Fast
Cyber attacks are where the modern battles take place: Military cyber attacks, like those used by Russia during its invasion of Georgia or political...
Paris Attacks Raise Privacy Debate Once More
Paz Shabtai
Following the Paris attacks, apparently planned under the noses of French and Belgian authorities, one possibility is that Islamic State militants have found...
Security Technology Can Save The Euro 2016 Games
The UEFA European Football Championship is one of the world’s most prestigious football tournaments, second only to the World Cup. The competition is held...
Who Is Tracking Your Phone?
It is now widely known that governments the world over eavesdrop on citizens’ electronic communication. Until last year, governmental spying was thought to be...
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