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Nearly four weeks after the Police Service of Northern Ireland published data on 10,000 employees in a botched response to a Freedom of Information request, another two men, aged 21 and 22, have been released on bail after being arrested under the Terrorism Act. On August 8, it mistakenly published a spreadsheet with the details of every serving Northern Ireland police officer online in response to a Freedom of Information request at the beginning of August.
Venafi announced the findings of a global survey of more than 1,500 IT security decision makers that reveals that 60% of security professionals believe ransomware threats should be prioritized at the same level as terrorism. 37% of respondents would pay the ransom but 57% would reverse that decision if they had to publicly report the payment, as required by the Ransomware Disclosure Act, a U.S. Senate bill that would require companies to report ransomware payments within 48 hours.
Iran on Sunday described a blackout at its underground Natanz atomic facility an act of "Nuclear terrorism," raising regional tensions as world powers and Tehran continue to negotiate over its tattered nuclear deal. Ali Akbar Salehi, the American-educated head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, who once served as the country's foreign minister, offered what appeared to be the harshest comments of his long career, which included the assassination of nuclear scientists a decade ago.
Cyan Forensics announced a new partnership with Susteen, the California-based developer of mobile forensic tools. Founded in 2016, Cyan Forensics' technology for scanning computers is already used by the Home Office Child Abuse Image Database system and policing across the UK for offences relating to Child Sexual Abuse Material, and is deployed with counter terror policing in the UK and Europe.
The FBI has asked Apple to unlock two iPhones belonging to a murderer, potentially reviving a tense battle over encryption and the rights of law enforcement to digital devices. Alshamrani had two iPhones - one of which he reportedly shot and damaged - and the FBI has been trying to unlock the phones and extract the encrypted contents to see if there is any evidence that others were involved in the attack, or other clues to his actions.
Another excellent paper by the Mueller/Stewart team: "Terrorism and Bathtubs: Comparing and Assessing the Risks": Abstract: The likelihood that anyone outside a war zone will be killed by an...
As the administrator of a Tor exit node, it could have been anyone who used his IP address.
Twitter has suspended a total of 935,897 accounts for the promotion of terrorism between August 1, 2015, and June 30, 2017, the company says in its latest transparency report. read more
