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At Paris Olympics, Americans and Israelis Top List of Security Worries

At Paris Olympics, Americans and Israelis Top List of Security Worries

Editor's Note: This story was published just hours before a series of arson attacks struck France's high-speed rail network.SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE [...] More

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Network of Terror Leads to Charging of Iranian Diplomat

Network of Terror Leads to Charging of Iranian Diplomat

German prosecutors have charged an Iranian diplomat with conspiracy to murder after counterterrorism officials say they averted a planned terrorist [...] More
Europe’s Terrorism Problem

Europe’s Terrorism Problem

Europe has become a strategic target for terrorist infiltration. Its proximity to war zones as well as several terrorist strongholds in the Middle [...] More

Improving Transatlantic Cooperation

Mitch Silber, the former Director of Intelligence Analysis for NYPD, attributes Europe’s homegrown terrorist threat to Europe’s repeated failure to [...] More

Preventing Another Paris

According to Gilles De Kerchove, Counter-terrorism Coordinator for the European Union, effective cooperation and coordination between EU member [...] More

Privacy and Security after the Paris Attacks

Twelve days after the Paris attacks, I was waiting for a flight at London's Heathrow Airport, which seemed to be running with its customary sedate [...] More
General Michael Hayden on Security-Privacy Tradeoff

General Michael Hayden on Security-Privacy Tradeoff

Here we go again. Security vs. privacy. Round n. Of course, I'm referring to the aftermath of the horrific ISIS attacks in Paris. What did we (the [...] More
After Paris, Encryption Debate Rages

After Paris, Encryption Debate Rages

The debate about “Going Dark” has reignited following the tragic attacks in Paris last week. There have been claims the terrorists used encrypted [...] More
The Paris Attacks

The Paris Attacks

Intelligence failure: those are two words we often hear following a devastating terrorist attack such as what we saw this weekend in Paris. Almost by [...] More

A Malignant Cancer

The Cipher Brief spoke with Rob Richer, CIA's former Associate Deputy Director for Operations, about the terrorist attacks in Paris. Richer spoke [...] More

A Shift in Strategy

The Paris attacks last Friday demonstrated ISIS ability to strike in the heart of Western Europe. Kevin Hulbert, a former senior intelligence officer [...] More

The Impact of Leaks

The Cipher Brief sat down with General Keith Alexander, former Director of the National Security Agency. Alexander discussed the Paris attacks, the [...] More

Just the Beginning

Over the course of the last 18 months, since ISIS burst on to the scene with its dramatic regional tactical advances, capturing Mosul in Iraq and [...] More