Geoff White
Is Isis planning murderous cyber attacks?
I’ve been covering cyber security for several years, but very, very rarely come across incidents that directly resulted in physical harm, let alone death.
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MI5 chief says scale of terror threat highest he has seen
The head of MI5 has described the scale and pace of the current terror threat as the highest he’s ever seen. In the first on-camera briefing to journalists in the agency’s history, Andrew Parker said attacks are now able to accelerate from plan to intent within days.
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Ben Wallace: ‘I have far right in my sights’
Security Minister Ben Wallace says the Government is giving the extreme right enough attention through the Prevent programme.
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Police tighten security ahead of New Year celebrations
Police have beefed up security arrangements in preparation of the New Year celebrations as a response to the terror attacks in Europe. In Manchester and Edinburgh extra crowd protection will be in place. While in London, 3,000 officers, many of them armed, will be on the streets.
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Berlin interview: Sergey Lagodinsky
Interview with Sergey Lagodinsky, who’s a fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute, specialising in legal, political and security issues.
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Geoff White
State-level hacking: who’s got your back?
Governments are unleashing viruses often designed to take complete control of a computer, giving police and intelligence agencies access to its webcam and microphone.
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Simon Israel
G4S death: today was not a victory for compassion
A dispiriting end to the day for David Taylor Smith – a man once in command of 50,000 people for the world’s third largest company G4S.
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Geoff White
Is Cameron really planning on ‘banning’ Snapchat?
David Cameron says he’s prepared to strike an “unprecedented” deal to tackle network attacks with Barack Obama in talks at the White House today. But is he planning to “ban” Snapchat?
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Siobhan Kennedy
Third mobile company demands answers over Dishfire
As another telecoms company asks whether the data mining programme Dishfire has been harvesting information from its customers, questions over the role of British agents begin to mount.
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Geoff White
Tech giants versus the spooks – snooping row goes on
A number of the world’s biggest technology companies are pushing for limits on how far the government can snoop on them. But there’s a bigger problem at the heart of all of this.
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Jon Snow
Reaction to Mr Cameron from an ally
President Obama failed to mention Europe in his inaugural speech last week. Should we read anything into it?
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Jon Snow
Welcome to the UK. Hurry up and wait!
Re-entering the UK through Heathrow’s Terminal 3, courtesy of Egypt Air, felt as if the pre-Christmas ice age and its consequences were still with us.
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Gary Gibbon
Could it be the end for control orders?
Control orders – which mean suspects can be kept under virtual house arrest without any trial by jury – could be scrapped by the Coalition government, writes Gary Gibbon.
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Jon Snow
Airport security: So was I right?
Regular Snowbloggers will know of my obsession with the bonkers airport security regime in this country, and beyond. Well, the chairman of British Airways no less, has weighed in. Martin Broughton has now said what I’ve been saying for months and months.
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Jon Snow
What the Dubai murder says about airport security
Jon Snow questions international airport security after 11 apparent assassins managed to enter Dubai using fake passports.