Terrorists winning digital arms race

Published 26 January 2017

Rob Wainwright, the director of Europol, said Tuesday that terrorist groups have embraced a huge number of digital tools to recruit members and plan terrorist attacks, placing them a step ahead of security services trying to combat them. Twitter removed about 250,000 accounts connected with ISIS in one year, but the terrorist group uses ninety other social media platforms, Wainwright noted. Terrorist groups have begun to live-stream their attacks, and they are using the Internet to launch “innovative crowdfunding” campaigns, he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. “The technology is advanced,” Wainwright added. “They know what to do, and they know how to use it.”

 

Source:  http://www.computerworld.com/article/3158529/security/terrorists-are-win…