Category Security, Cyber & Counter-Threats

Security, Cyber & Counter-Threats examines the evolving landscape of digital conflict, hybrid warfare, and threat mitigation in an increasingly networked world.
This magazine covers cyber operations, information warfare, digital resilience, and security architectures shaping modern defense and intelligence ecosystems.
Designed for analysts, policymakers, and technology leaders, it delivers actionable insights into how states and non-state actors compete, defend, and adapt in the information age.

DARPA HACMS employed Formal Verification Methods to develop hack proof unmanned vehicles , weapons , satellites, and command and control systems

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In 2011, Iran claimed to have downed a sophisticated American stealth drone, and unveiled what it alleged was a reverse-engineered copy of the futuristic looking RQ-170 Sentinel UAV, produced by defense giant Lockheed Martin. The drone was brought down by…...

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Ion beam accelerator for nuclear device characterization, detection of contraband materials, and Directed energy weapons

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Ion beam accelerators are machines providing kinetic energy to charged particles called ions, which bombard the target sample – the material to be irradiated and subsequently analyzed. The target can be a thin foil or a piece of mineral, rubber,…...

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UK Cyber Security Strategy emphasizes Defence , Deterrence and Cyber technology development

The rapid development of digitalized services and online shopping in the UK has been paralleled with significant growth in cybercrime, leading to greater spending on security in public and private sectors. Organizations’ IT footprints have also become increasingly complex, driving…...

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5G Mobile Networks deployments have many security and privacy threats, Require New policies and technologies including quantum cryptography

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Countries are now racing to deploy 5G, short for 5th generation mobile networking or 5th generation wireless systems. The Fifth Generation (5G) mobile networks  promise fast Internet for everyone, smart cities, driverless cars, critical health care, “internet of things” revolution,…...

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DARPA ‘s PROTEUS urban combat software allows Marine commanders to explore and develop new multidomain fighting concepts

Cities have become the new battleground and Hybrid or Urban Warfare the greatest threat being waged by ISIS to Boko Haram to Hamas to Ukraine rebels.  Urban warfare is fundamentally unchanged since World War I in many regards: battle is…...

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Growing threat of Cryptocurrency in terrorism for terror financing

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Modern terrorist attacks display increasingly sophisticated ICT skills in both conducting their attacks and communicating them globally through digital technologies, combined with, in some cases, an awareness of counter-intelligence measures, largely enabled by Web 2.0. The Paris attackers displayed the…...

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Modernization of military intelligence spying and espionage

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Intelligence, in military science, information concerning an enemy or an area. The term is also used for an agency that gathers such information. Military intelligence is as old as warfare itself. Even in biblical times, Moses sent spies to live with…...

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Media Manipulation strategies and techniques

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Media manipulation is a series of related techniques in which partisans create an image or argument that favours their particular interests. Such tactics may include the use of logical fallacies, psychological manipulations, outright deception (disinformation), rhetorical and propaganda techniques, and…...

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Emerging technologies sounding death knell to Privacy, requirement of new governance structures

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Significant technological advances are being made across a range of fields, including information communications technology (ICT); artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in terms of machine learning and robotics; nanotechnology; space technology; biotechnology; and quantum computing. The technological advances are driven by…...

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Security forces require throwable robots that can send video of inside buildings

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Cities have become the new battleground and Hybrid or Urban Warfare the greatest threat being waged by ISIS to Boko Haram to Hamas to Ukraine rebels.  The terrorists resort to Asymmetric Warfare exploiting the limitations and vulnerabilities of high-tech weapons…...

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