Tag Archives: Technology

02Apr/26

Blackouts and Technosocial Vulnerability. Information, Public Security, and Resilience in the Age of Interdependencies – by G. Buoncompagni

We live in entropic societies in which security increasingly unfolds within the invisible terrain of technosocial interdependencies.

Energy, digital, and communication infrastructures do not merely constitute the material support of everyday life; rather, they represent its deep architecture, to the point that their continuity is perceived as natural, almost taken for granted. It is precisely this apparent invisibility that renders them critical: when they fail, as in the case of blackouts, the result is not simply a technical disruption but a genuine systemic rupture that simultaneously affects the economy, social relations, meaning-making processes, and public order.

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07Gen/25

New Orleans Truck Attack: How Terrorists Exploit Smart Technologies – by Eleonora Ristuccia & Alessandro Bolpagni

On January 1, 2025, former US Army soldier Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar drove a pickup truck on Bourbon Street, in the heart of New Orleans, killing 14 people and injuring 35 more. According to Lyonel Myrthil, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent, Jabbar had visited the city twice prior to the attack.

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30Ago/22

Social bots and synthetic interactions to stage digital extremist armies (part 3) – by Daniele M. Barone

According to a report by GNET, while Daesh (and jihadist groups in general) relied heavily on bot technology, racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist networks have so far refrained from widespread bot usage, mostly because of their different objectives and the more permissive online environment in which they operate.[i]  Nevertheless, far-right or conspiracy groups’ use of social bots can still highlight further communication branches in which AI can be exploited. Continue reading

24Apr/20

Covid 19 and related violence: the example of 5G attacks –  by Maria Alvanou and Barbara Lucini

As the medical world is fighting the novel Coronavirus, it is not only the disease of COVID 19 that is raising concern. Along with human health, it is also the health of society endangered. Violence related to the outbreak of SARS–CoV-2 is one of the problems officials have to address and a basic example is attacks against 5G towers. Continue reading

26Mar/19

Akbar al-Muslimin, Kybernetiq, and ZeroNet. The Modern and Privacy-Centric Electronic-Jihad – by Daniele Maria Barone

Years of clandestine communications, first through newspapers or radio and then by exploiting online tools and media as a sounding board, have highlighted Islamic terrorism peculiarity of adapting to new means of communication to make propaganda, raise money, and keep in contact with each others[i]. Continue reading

06Feb/19

Hamas crowdfunding bitcoin: legitimizing cryptocurrencies from a jihadist perspective – by Daniele Maria Barone

On January 29, 2019, Abu Obeida, the spokesman for Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, the armed wing of the Hamas, announced that the group is now accepting donations in bitcoin[i]. An attempt to get around international restrictions on funding the organization, by circumventing the banking system and international anti-money laundering (AML) measures. Continue reading

22Ott/18

Europol – Internet Organized Cyber Crime Threat Assessment 2018: new trends in the obscure sides of FinTech – by Daniele Maria Barone

The latest report of Europol on Internet Organized Cyber Crime (IOCTA 2018)[i] stresses, among other issues, the weak points that modern financial tools and a lack of either an up-to-date legal framework or cooperation among institutions and the private sector, brings to the cybercrime field. Continue reading