Security News

Smartphones: A Double-edged Sword for Terrorists
2018-11-16 20:14

Bombs and guns aside, a smartphone can be a powerful weapon in the hands of a terrorist -- but it can also provide intelligence services with the tools to track them down. Three years ago to the...

Terrorists told to hijack social media accounts to spread propaganda
2018-11-12 12:32

Facebook has removed 14 million pieces of content dubbed likely to come from terrorists, as determined by new machine learning technology

Remember that lost memory stick from Heathrow Airport? The terrorist's wet dream? So does the ICO
2018-10-08 14:10

Operator fined £120k by UK data watchdog Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) has been fined £120,000 by the UK's data watchdog for the loss of an unencrypted USB memory stick reportedly containing...

Nope, the NSA isn't sitting in front of a supercomputer hooked up to a terrorist’s hard drive
2018-09-06 08:13

They wish. Backdooring, encryption, and governments Analysis Not since the days of the US Clipper chip in the early 1990s, have backdoors put there by government decree to bypass encryption been...

Social networks to be fined for hosting terrorist content
2018-08-21 12:00

Draft EU legislation, due out next month, will likely incorporate a one-hour takedown window for extremist content flagged by law enforcement.

'Slingshot' Is U.S. Government Operation Targeting Terrorists: Report
2018-03-21 07:22

The Slingshot cyber espionage campaign exposed recently by Kaspersky Lab is a U.S. government operation targeting members of terrorist organizations, according to a media report. Earlier this...

Judge: FBI Doesn't Have to Reveal How It Unlocked iPhone Used by San Bernardino Terrorist
2017-10-02 02:38

Remember the infamous encryption fight between the FBI and Apple for unlocking an iPhone belonging to terrorist Syed Farook behind the San Bernardino 2015 mass shooting that killed 14 people? The...

Russia Threatens to Ban Telegram Messaging App, Says It Was Used By Terrorists (The Hackers News)
2017-06-26 10:10

Russia has threatened a ban against Telegram end-to-end encrypted messaging app, after Pavel Durov, its founder, refused to sign up to the country's new data protection laws. Russia's FSB...