Tag: ISIS

September 26, 2016

An overseas hacker from the group Kosovo Hacker’s Security was handed a 20-year term Friday. This is the nation’s first prosecution of a hacker trying to carry out an act of terrorism. Kosovo citizen Ardit Ferizi, a 20-year-old with the […]

August 19, 2016

Twitter said Thursday it has shut down 235,000 accounts linked to violent extremism in the last six months alone. That brings the total number of terminated Twitter accounts associated with terrorism to 360,000 since mid-2015. San Francisco-based Twitter, which had […]

August 11, 2016

Twitter is not liable for providing material support to the Islamic State group, also referred to as the ISIS, by allowing its members to sign up and use accounts on its site, a federal judge in California ruled Wednesday. The […]

June 17, 2016

A 20-year-old Estonia man has pleaded guilty to stealing data on more than 1,300 U.S. military and government personnel and providing it to the Islamic State. Ferizi’s goal was to “incite terrorist attacks,” the U.S. Department of Justice said on […]

April 28, 2016

Cyberwar against ISIS could bring into play tools and tactics that corporate security pros face every day, only this time they will be used as part of a larger objective than criminal profit. The goals of the offensive are to […]

April 5, 2016

The final day of the Nuclear Security Summit was dominated by discussions of potential threats to nuclear facilities from the Islamic State group, but President Barack Obama also took the opportunity to talk about cooperation among more than 50 other […]

March 2, 2016

In a briefing Monday afternoon, Defense Department leaders announced that the US was participating in a coalition operation with Iraqi and Kurd forces to recapture the city of Mosul from the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh). […]

November 17, 2015

The investigation into last Friday’s coordinated terrorist attacks has quickly turned up evidence that members of the Islamic State (ISIS) communicated with the attackers from Syria using encrypted communications, according to French officials. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell said […]

April 8, 2015

The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Tuesday that attackers claiming to be sympathetic to the extremist group ISIS are targeting websites that have vulnerable WordPress plugins. The content management system has a thriving community of third-party developers who have created […]

March 16, 2015

Police and FBI are investigating defacement attacks on numerous North American websites in which attackers placed an ISIS flag banner on website home pages and played an Arabic song in the background, as reported by NBC News. The sites appear […]