Facebook Safety Check triggers false Bangkok bomb scare
Facebook sparked fear—and anger—among Thailand's social media users after its Safety Check feature triggered a false bomb alert in Bangkok.
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Dec 28, 2016
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Twitter axes 235,000 more accounts in terror crackdown
Twitter on Thursday announced that it has cut off 235,000 more accounts for violating its policies regarding promotion of terrorism at the global one-to-many messaging service.
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Aug 18, 2016
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How technology could help predict terrorist attacks
The internet has become a weapon for terrorists, who use social media and other technologies to organise, recruit and spread propaganda. So is it possible to turn technology around and use it to not only catch terrorists ...
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Jun 22, 2016
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Innovative trust model to help journalists verify social media content
Using the November 2015 Paris terror attacks as an example, the EU REVEAL project has demonstrated novel solutions for assisting journalists in assessing the accuracy of eyewitness social media content during breaking news ...
Internet
May 19, 2016
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Facebook apologizes for Safety Check glitch after Pakistan blast
Facebook apologized on Sunday for a bug that sent a Safety Check notification to users around the world following a deadly suicide bombing in Pakistan.
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Mar 28, 2016
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WikiLeaks not connected to any terrorist attacks in study
The WikiLeaks organization was criticized for providing a target list for terrorists when it published a secret memo in 2010 with 200 international sites that the U.S. Department of State considered critical to national security.
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Feb 26, 2016
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New study explores the mind of a cyberterrorist
A new study by Max Kilger, director of Data Analytics Programs at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of Business, is delving into an aspect of cybersecurity rarely explored before now: the human component. ...
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Dec 16, 2015
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New online tool reveals terrorist networks and behavior over time
To enable a better understanding of how terrorist organizations network and function over time, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) has launched the Big Allied and Dangerous ...
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Oct 21, 2015
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New tech to authenticate citizen journalists' cellphone footage
Cellphone video increasingly plays a role in reporting the news. From encounters with police in the United States to the fate of people worldwide threatened by war, terrorism, repressive governments or any number of other ...
Internet
Sep 24, 2015
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Social media is transforming emergency communications, study says
Social media channel communication (e.g. Twitter and Facebook) is sometimes the only telecommunications medium that survives, and the first to recover as seen in disasters that struck the world in recent years, according ...
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Aug 19, 2015
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