In response to high levels of crime, South Africans have turned their homes into fortresses, seeking security behind high walls. But doing so might be counter-productive.
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Tech giant Microsoft wants to rid the world of “dumb” passwords to improve online security. But maybe it’s the password itself we should dump.
Unpicking the gap between rhetoric and reality.
Your mobile number is all a hacker needs to read your texts, listen to your calls and even track your whereabouts.
Membership of the EU guarantees Britain’s political power in Europe and beyond.
Researchers explain how tolerance in Turin’s Olympic village is helping refugees to help themselves.
The focus has for a long time been on protecting aircraft. We’ve just been reminded how vulnerable pre-check-in areas can be.
Now that Apple has refused to build a backdoor into its own device, should the FBI turn to ethical hackers to gain access to a terror suspect’s iPhone?
Apple’s refusal to back down in its fight with the FBI is a sharp reversal from just a few years ago when it was the government urging tech companies to do more to protect consumer privacy.
How the borrowed concept of gated communities is dividing rich from poor in the Peruvian capital.
The legal status of private security staff is, for the most part, decidedly uncertain.
We increasingly depend on algorithms applied to big data, but even algorithms make mistakes that could label us in worrying ways
Biometrics in schools may compromise pupils’ life-long security for the sake of short term ease of administration.
When nearly half the world’s people are under 24 years old, they clearly have a critical role to play in working for peace and security around the world.
Like France, the US faces the possibility that ISIS will attack an American city sooner or later.
Recent events show that you can’t always stop an attack, even when you prepare for one.
As Western nations increasingly focus elsewhere, the battle for Afghanistan rages on.
There will be a quantum leap in securing online confidentiality with key distribution technology.
A scholars’ panel looks at the diplomacy, the science and the pragmatism behind the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed between Iran and six world powers.
Israel is suspected of spying on Iran’s nuclear talks using a virus to hack the devices that are all around us.
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Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia
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Associate Researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
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Research Fellow, Obafemi Awolowo University, Regional Coordinator, Institute for Security Studies
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Aston University
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull
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Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of International Security, Adelaide University