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Police had no dedicated team to scan Internet before mosque attacks Phil Pennington It took seven months for police to set up their first team for scanning the internet after the mosque attacks - but it was almost immediately in danger of being shut down. An internal report released under the Official Information Act (OIA) said this was despite the team already proving its worth "many times over" in countering violent extremists. The unit still does not have dedicated funding, despite a warning last July it risked being "turned off". This is revealed in 170 pages of OIA docume...

By   Theresa Hitchens on March 16, 2021 at 2:02 PM WASHINGTON: A “recently signed” Defense Intelligence Strategy prioritizes countering Russian and Chinese disinformation, including providing more timely information to Combatant Commanders to support their efforts, says Neill Tipton, director for Defense Intelligence, Collection and Special Programs. Further, he told the House Armed Services subcommittee on intelligence and special operations, DoD and the IC plan to complete an effort to declassify information about adversary information-warfare activities by September in order to bols...

Four Ways for President Biden to Fix Cyber on January 21 President-elect Biden gives a speech celebrating his victory. (Photo by Adam Schultz / Biden for President) From a global pandemic that has shown no signs of slowing to regional instability across the world, President-elect Biden will have no shortage of issues to address. Unlike nearly all other challenges, however, Biden and his incoming national security team can make demonstrative progress in cybersecurity within hours of taking office. Too frequently, American policymakers have approached and treated “cyber issues” as a purely ...

Information is supposed to be. and these guys walked into this ambush without knowing that this isis group is there. malcolm is exactly right. this may very well be a turning point in our commitment to africa. >> malcolm, last comment? >> yeah. you know, we have a base to the northeast of that about 150 kilometers which is a very large base. it's a u.s. drone base which carries out collections operations in that trans-saddle region between the town, the libyan border, and west of mali. it appears the intelligence support for this special forces team which by the way these small missions of lea...

Process while investigators try to piece together the clues too why flight 9525 went down. christine. >> thanks for that, diana magnay. yemen erupting. saudi arabia launching air strikes against houthis rebels. u.s. on the sidelines providing intelligence support. senior correspondent nick paton walsh monitoring this from kabul, afghanistan this morning. a tense and tough situation there. nick. >> reporter: this really was a nation that is already in chaos and anarchy now headed into a regional conflict. saudi jets have been cleared. they have taken out houthi air defenses. the weaponry whic...