China's new counter-terrorism law has made it legal for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to participate in counterterror missions overseas. The PLA and the country's armed police forces may carry out such operations with the approval ...
On Christmas Eve, U.S. embassy in China issued security warnings for Westerners in Beijing's Sanlitun area, a popular Beijing diplomatic and entertainment district. Thanks to special forces dispatched by the Chinese government, no incidents ...
Tags: Fighting Terrorism, Anti-terrorism
A Chinese envoy to the United Nations Wednesday called on the international community to make joint efforts to step up protection of women and children in conflicts. Terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State (IS) and Boko Haram ...
Tags: women, children, human trafficking
The MoD plans to commission three new ocean-going Offshore Patrol Vessels for the Royal Navy in a deal that will sustain jobs in the UK's warship building industry. The new ships, which will be built by BAE Systems at their shipyards on ...
Andrew Parker, Director General, MI5 The head of MI5 has said that the Prism data leaks scandal has damaged the UK’s efforts to counter terrorism. Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute in London last night, director ...
Tags: Prism Scandal
A skeptical but mostly respectful crowd of Black Hat security attendees Wednesday listened intently as National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander defended controversial U.S. surveillance programs in a keynote address. The nearly ...
Tags: NSA Spy Programs
Fugitive document leaker Edward Snowden has formally applied for political asylum in Russia after spending eight days in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. The Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed Russian immigration ...
Tags: NSA, Edward Snowden, Russia
The former boss of the UK's MI5 security service has caused a security scare by losing her laptop at Heathrow. Stella Rimington left the computer on a luggage trolley from where it was stolen, according to the The Sun. The laptop is ...
A sophisticated cyber surveillance tool that monitors financial transactions with Middle Eastern banks was probably built by or under the auspices of a government, security researchers said today. Early Thursday, Moscow-based Kaspersky ...
Tags: cyber, financial transactions, Middle Eastern, banks, security
The Gurkha Cigar, makers of the cigar brand "Gurkha" and the world's most expensive cigar'His Majesty's Reserve' ($16,500 per box of 20 cigars), was chosen as the official cigar of the Delta Forces, the super- elite military group held in ...
Finalists for the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Best Partnership Award (announced in London on 22 November) included a laser engineering research partnership involving Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global Ltd (CSTG) of Hamilton ...
Tags: CSTG, Best Partnership Award, Laser Project, laser engineering research
Police across Europe could soon find themselves monitoring Facebook,Google and Twitter for content related to terrorism. A leaked report about a"Clean IT"initiative by the European Union(EU)revealed the plan for police officers ...
Tags: EU, monitor web, police, Wikipedia
A leaked document from a project set up by the European Commission to fight terrorism online reveals suggestions for wide-ranging surveillance. The CleanIT project was set up to create voluntary guidelines to stamp out terrorism ...
Tags: Counter-Terrorism, Surveillance, ISP, Social Media
The White House has announced that US President Barack Obama is considering issuing orders compelling or encouraging private companies in critical industries to improve their cyber defences. The announcement comes a week after Congress ...
The U.S. government -- minus key spy operations -- spent $11.36 billion to protect classified data in 2011, according to the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) The number has increased substantially over the past decade, from ...
Tags: classified data, Information Security, secret spy agencies, ISOO's report