The encryption debate has raged on this week with new developments in the rift between the US government and Apple over access to the iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino attackers. …
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The Beat Predictive policing Interested in how big data can help law enforcement? A new article from City Journal, ‘Big data on the beat’, discusses how technology and big data can anticipate and prevent crime. …
The Beat Europol banding together to fight Daesh Europol has launched a new counterterrorism centre in the wake of the Paris attacks. In anticipation of more terrorist attacks occurring across Europe, the new centre will …
The Beat The costs of crime ICYMI: The Australian Crime Commission released their latest report, ‘The Costs of Serious and Organised Crime in Australia 2013–14′ over the holidays. Their findings show that serious and organised …
The Beat High-tech policing The Washington Post’s Justin Jouvenal takes a look at how police and law enforcement agencies are increasingly able to use technology to calculate a suspect’s ‘threat scores’. Software such as Beware …
China hosted the second World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province this week with President Xi Jinping delivering a keynote address at the opening ceremony. He called for international respect of ‘cyber sovereignty’, which …
The Australian Government recently announced plans to invest $26 million in the development of quantum computing technology as part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA). Prime Minister Turnbull has argued that NISA is …
The Beat Combatting the tobacco trade The US State Department recently released a new report, The Global Illicit Trade in Tobacco: A Threat to National Security, in support of the US National Strategy to Combat …
The Beat Flaws in global efforts to counter money laundering A new report on the consultation between Britain’s National Crime Agency and businesses was released this week, which informed the NCA’s recent national risk assessment of money …
Following on from Xi Jinping’s September state visit, Chinese Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun met with US Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch in Washington last week to discuss …
The 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed US Congress last week and has interesting implications for US cybersecurity policy. The NDAA instructs US Cyber Command to undertake cyber ‘war games’ to ensure the nation’s …
At the beginning of this month, the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) officially unveiled its new unmanned surface vehicle (USV), the Venus 16. The vessel is 16m long and 5m wide, has a maximum speed …