The CIA Director said al-Qaeda is weaker and US intelligence agencies are smarter since the September 11 attacks 10 years ago, but the terrorists are still there and not defeated. In his first week on the job, CIA director David Petraeus told members of Congress that al-Qaeda’s recent losses of Osama bin Laden and others [...]
This document was published by the criminology scientists Charalampos Doulaverakis, Nikolaos Konstantinou, Thomas Knape, Ioannis Kompatsiaris and John Soldatos. Doulaverakis was the keynote speaker at the EISIC 2011 SecuAll scientists are related to three institutions: a) Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas in Thessaloniki, Greece b) the Autonomic and Grid Computing [...]
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On September 12th, and during the first day of the conference EISIC 2011 “European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference, on Counterterrorism and Criminology,” the first keynote speech was given by the expert Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Cyber Security (BT) (*). The title of his presentation was “Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications”. Among [...]
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U.S. officials warned yesterday evening about “specific, credible but unconfirmed” information on a plot against the United States. This potential attack could coincide with the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. According to this information, the potential attack could involve three individuals, including a U.S. citizen. U.S. officials believed the threat could be a [...]
In the beginning, social networks were just a new way of socializing among friends and business people. In the last few years, some people have begun using these networks for other purposes than family and friends. Using facebook some people started a political movement that ended in the Egyptian revolution against Mubarak. Others organize urban riots like some [...]
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The coming wave of U.S. defense budget cuts will apparently be followed by less spending on Homeland Security. Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. Government is spending near $75 Billion per year on U.S. Homeland Security. Whether the Spending Spree has been worthwhile is the subject of increasing debate, especially among U.S. liberals…READ [...]
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After having suffered the greatest series of cyber attacks on U.S. records, government officials reached a conclusion: the security had failed. The most powerful computer system in the world has proved to be fragile. Looking for solutions , the Defense Dept. began to turn to Internet users who have always lived outside the law: the [...]
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The recent phishing attack from China on Google´s Gmail , targeted senior military personel , government officials in the White House, including influential journalists. Along with the difficulties experienced by Sony’s Playstation network–originated in a chinese hacker and with a 44-day affair that cost SONY an estimated $171 million–the recent breaches of internet security has [...]
Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST), a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) programme designed to spot people who are intending to commit a terrorist act, has in the past few months completed its first round of field tests at an undisclosed location in the northeast, the online magazine Nature has learned. Like a lie detector, [...]
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Spanish police stopped the illegal sale of nine military transport helicopters – Bell 212- to Iran and chopper spare parts to Venezuela. The police operation, which took place simultaneously in Madrid and Barcelona, led to the arrests of five Spanish businessmen and three Iranian nationals, reports say. The five Spanish businessmen are suspected of trying [...]
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