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Australia’s spy agency has issued a stark warning about the privacy and national security risks of ‘connected cars’.
An International Relations specialist looks at how cooperation between intel agencies on both sides of the Atlantic is holding up under Trump 2.0 and unprecedented geopolitical turbulence.
Many people believe Jeffrey Epstein may have worked as an access agent for Russia or Israel. They said the same thing about his girlfriend’s father Robert Maxwell.
Whistleblowers’ stories show how accountability is shifting from formal legal institutions to solidarity networks built outside the state.
Espionage trials risk revealing the sometimes highly confidential methods by which evidence had been gathered against the accused.
An intelligence expert explains why the UK government is facing questions over the collapse of a trial.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order approving a deal that allows U.S. businesspeople to acquire ownership of TikTok.
The Special Operations Executive initiative that recruited female civilians during the second world war went on to inspire similar programmes by other agencies.
The chief of the intelligence agency is warning of deeper, wider security threats over the next five years, from both friends and foes. Is the law ready to respond?
The incoming administration faces three flashpoints in cyber security that will be crucial over the next four years.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953 for conspiring with the Soviets. A newly declassified memo debunks the government’s case against Ethel, and her sons want their mother exonerated.
By 1660, the British government had come to rely on a shadowy trade of secrets for gathering intelligence.
Over the years, sensational spy dramas featuring have mirrored the murky world of intelligence operations.
Modern cars made in most countries have remote control and online data features. What matters is who can access that data – and the vehicle itself.
Smartphones may be indispensable to modern life, but they’re also perfect tools for spying on their owners. Anyone looking to avoid being tracked – like, say, militant groups – tends to ditch them.
The couple are the first to be charged under Australia’s new espionage act, which was revamped in 2018.
Both Russian-born Australian citizens, the pair have been accused of obtaining Australian Defence Force material to share with Russian authorities.
Who is a spy and what does that mean? An expert explains
If Canada’s political leaders want the public to trust them, they need to trust citizens with foreign interference information contained in a recent security and intelligence report.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies, University of Salford
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Research Fellow, Leiden University
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University of London
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Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull
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Associate professor of international history, Utrecht University
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Professor of War and Technology, University of Bath
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Professor of the Practice of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Tony Walker AM is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, La Trobe University
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Assistant Director, Applied History Project and Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor in Law and Security, University of Canberra; Stellenbosch University
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Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Associate Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Lecturer, Cyberintelligence and Cybercrime Investigations, University of the Sunshine Coast