February 28, 2018

ISIS recruiter caught by Facebook screenshot

An ISIS follower tried to radicalize hundreds of strangers worldwide, until one of his targets captured the messages and gave them to police.

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January 19, 2017

IS turns hobby drones into remote-control bombs

Drone bombers captured by Iraqi forces reveal both drones built from scratch and those bought off the shelf

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October 07, 2016

Islamic State suspect charged with hiding terrorist data in cufflink

A 33-year-old Cardiff man has been charged with training Islamic State terrorists on how to use encryption programs and with hiding a computer program on a USB drive disguised as a cufflink.

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August 19, 2016

Twitter takes down 235K extremist accounts

Third parties say that Islamic State traffic on Twitter has plummeted by 45% over the past 2 years.

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August 09, 2016

Blabbing on social media foils terrorists’ rocket attack plan

Authorities say that the alleged jihadis seem to have been radicalized over social media, specifically using Facebook.

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July 04, 2016

Facebook blocks another woman named Isis because of her name

Another woman named after the Egyptian goddess of health, marriage, and wisdom has been told that her name's verboten.

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June 17, 2016

Islamic State hacker admits to hacking, sharing US military PII

The Kosovan admitted that he knew the terrorists would use it to “hit them hard.”

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March 11, 2016

IS defector steals USB stick revealing 22K members identities

The disillusioned ex-fighter brought with him a stolen USB drive containing names, addresses, and phone numbers of Islamic State jihadis.

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December 10, 2015

Bill requiring reporting of social media terrorist content is back

Meanwhile, Google's Schmidt proposes a "hate spell-checker" to sniff out and suppress radical and terrorist content.

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