Security News

Cyan Forensics Raises $6.9 Million to Combat Pedophiles and Terrorists
2021-03-30 17:22

Edinburgh, Scotland-based start-up Cyan Forensics has secured £5 million in a Series A funding round led by Par Equity. Cyan Forensics offers products designed to rapidly identify and block illegal content such as child pornography and terrorist material.

Feds seize 'largest ever' haul of crypto-dosh from terrorists – including coins from 'fake' pandemic mask web store
2020-08-17 06:20

The operation converted its sales into crypto-coins that were sent to ISIS. Uncle Sam said the seized coins will be sent to a fund established for the victims of terrorist attacks. The team at Trend Micro has spotted something you don't see every day: malware for macOS exploiting zero-days.

Attorney General: We didn't need Apple to crack terrorist's iPhones – tho we still want iGiant to do it in future
2020-05-18 22:09

The US Department of Justice is once again taking Apple to task for not cooperating with device decryption requests, even after it announced that it had retrieved information from a pair of iPhones without Cupertino's help. "Thanks to the great work of the FBI - and no thanks to Apple - we were able to unlock Alshamrani's phones," said Attorney General Barr.

Attorney General: We didn't need Apple to crack terrorist's iPhones – tho we still want iGiant to do it in future
2020-05-18 22:09

The US Department of Justice is once again taking Apple to task for not cooperating with device decryption requests, even after it announced that it had retrieved information from a pair of iPhones without Cupertino's help. "Thanks to the great work of the FBI - and no thanks to Apple - we were able to unlock Alshamrani's phones," said Attorney General Barr.

Can you code a way to foil online terrorist vids? The Home Office might just have £600K for you
2019-09-24 15:55

UK.gov wants 'algorithm' to be shared with other tech firms UK prime minister (at time of writing) Boris Johnson announced to the UN Security Council today a plan to block the sharing of violent...

Giga-hurts: Terrorists build Wi-Fi-triggered bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers
2019-05-17 20:30

Explosives activated by wireless networking signals discovered amid election Terrorists have been caught strapping Wi-Fi-activated backup triggers to bombs in Indonesia, police revealed this week.…

ProtonMail back up in Russia, firm says, after regime chokes access over 'terrorist activity'
2019-03-12 17:40

Service says that's ерунда ProtonMail is "back to running normally in Russia now" after the country blocked access to the encrypted email service, claiming that students at a sports competition...

Can Everybody Read the US Terrorist Watch List?
2019-02-28 12:22

After years of claiming that the Terrorist Screening Database is kept secret within the government, we have now learned that the DHS shares it "with more than 1,400 private entities, including...

One click and you're out: UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once
2019-02-13 12:00

Oh snap. UK netizens better hope they don't have twitchy mouse-click finger It will be an offence to view terrorist material online just once – and could incur a prison sentence of up to 15 years...

AI-platform Mimiro raises $30 million to tackle terrorist funding, money-laundering and fraud
2019-01-31 01:00

Mimiro (formerly ComplyAdvantage) has raised USD $30 million from investors to accelerate the global expansion of its machine-learning platform for analysing the risk of financial crime. By...