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Posted inin Counter Terrorism
News

Alarming misuse of high-risk technologies in global fight against terrorism says UN expert

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
March 14, 2023
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2 min

GENEVA (14 March 2023) – States and private actors are using counter-terrorism and security rhetoric to justify and accelerate the deployment and transfer of...

Posted inin Tech
technology

TikTok security risks: Should you delete the app? SA expert says it’s probably not the worst

Posted byby Marc Dubois
March 3, 2023
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2 min

Over the last week, the European Union (EU), US and Canada banned the use of TikTok on staff and official devices, citing security and...

Posted inin Africa
City

Zimbabwe’s cyber city: Urban utopia or surveillance menace?

Posted byby Marie Corrie
February 25, 2023
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4 min

HARARE — In a fertile stretch of fields and farms dubbed New Harare, Zimbabwe is building a high-tech “cyber city” a world away from...

Posted inin Defense
Opinion

Should Organizations Adapt Their Cybersecurity in Light of Russia-Ukraine Conflict?

Posted byby Marie Corrie
February 24, 2023
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6 min

They should – Dr Suleyman Ozarslan Geopolitics and cyber warfare are complex issues. Meanwhile, enterprise security has always been nuanced and multi-faceted. However, I...

Posted inin Counter Terrorism
Extremism

Weapons of Mass Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Extremist Propaganda

Posted byby Marc Dubois
February 20, 2023
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8 min

Introduction In late 2022, OpenAI publicly released some of the most sophisticated deep-learning models – DALL-E and Chat GPT. These neural networks rely on...

Posted inin Opinion
Tech

Beauty, lies & ChatGPT: Welcome to the post-truth world

Posted byby Michael Becker
February 20, 2023
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6 min

Two months back, a company called OpenAI released its chatbot, ChatGPT, to the public. ChatGPT is a so-called Large Language Model (LLM) that is trained on...

Posted inin Opinion
Tech

ChatGPT has the potential to spread misinformation ‘at unprecedented scale’

Posted byby Michael Becker
February 15, 2023
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4 min

ChatGPT is the poster child for AI tech hype in 2023. Upon its release late last year, the chatbot, which is founded by OpenAI...

Posted inin Internal Security
Tech

Seven Kinds of Intelligence Spies Want, and How They Get It

Posted byby Devlin McAllister
February 11, 2023
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4 min

ANALYSIS: The news of a so-called “Chinese spy balloon” being shot down over the US has reignited interest in how nation-states spy on one...

Posted inin Defense
Internal Security

Hybrid Intelligence as Response to Hybrid Warfare?

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
February 8, 2023
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3 min

The last two decades have seen many changes in the security environment. New technologies have given rise to asymmetric opportunities. The costs of all-out...