8 February: The Daily Telegraph, which is one of the main contact points for the UK intelligence services, has “sources” that say that a third assassin is believed to have been part of the team that planted the Novichok nerve agent used to poison former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal. The …
Donald Trump has recommended ex-CIA officer and former Fox News reporter Lea Gabrielle to lead the Global Engagement Centre (GEC), the US agency (part of the Department of State) tasked with countering foreign disinformation attacks. The GEC was first established in April 2016 as attention focused on Russian disinformation efforts …
Former Major General Mark R Quantock has been appointed executive vice president of Strategic Accounts at Babel Street, a software analytics and data recovery company based in Washington. Babel Street specialises in “assigning and charting sentiment for social media in all of the 18 major world languages in near real …
How easy is it for someone to find you? There are lots of different ways, of course, but consider this cautionary tale from the United States: Mobile phone companies in America collect precise GPS data on the location of mobile phones. When privacy advocates complained about this type of surveillance, …
Australia’s GCHQ, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) confirmed on 8 February that it is responding to a hacking attack on the Australian parliament. It is too early to judge the extent of the attack or who might be behind it. China has been accused of similar attacks in the past.