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	William Regli, Ph.D. Director of the Institute for Systems Research at the Clark School of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland at College Park A New Type of Thinking Friday, June 22, 2018 Life Sciences Center 105 11:00 AM
	Dr. Gautam Shroff Vice President, Chief Scientist, and Head of Research at Tata Consultancy Services Enterprise AI for Business 4.0: from Automation to Amplification Thursday, June 07, 2018 Haldeman 041 Kreindler Conference Room 3:30 PM
	John P Dickerson Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland Using Optimization to Balance Fairness and Efficiency in Kidney Exchange Monday, May 21st Kemeny Hall 008 3:30 PM
	Jeanne Shaheen U.S. Senator from New Hampshire Russian Interference in American Politics and Cyber Threats to Our Democracy Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Alumni Hall (Hopkins Center) 11:00 AM
	Lisa Monaco Former Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama In Conversation: Lisa Monaco, Fmr Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama Tuesday, February 13, 2018 Filene Auditorium (Moore Building) 5:00 PM Sponsored by The Dickey Center for International Understanding
	John Stewart Sr. Technical Leader, Cyber Security, EPRI Securing Grid Control Systems Friday, January 12, 2018 Sudikoff L045 Trust Lab 12:00 Noon
	M. Todd Henderson Professor of Law, University of Chicago Hacking Trust: How the Social Technology of Cooperation Will Revolutionize Government Thursday, January 11, 2018 5:00pm-6:30pm Room 003, Rockefeller Center Sponsored by: Rockefeller Center
	Dr. Elizabeth Bowman U.S. Army Research Laboratory Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Information: Army Social Computing Research Tuesday, December 5th Haldeman 041 Kreindler Conference Room 4:00 PM
	Dr. Fabio Pierazzi Royal Holloway University of London Network Security Analytics for Detection of Advanced Cyberattacks Tuesday, November 28th Sudikoff Trust Lab (L045) 12:30 PM
	V.S. Subrahmanian Dartmouth Distinguished Professor in Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society Bots, Socks, and Vandals Tuesday, November 14th Carson L01 5:00 PM
	Rand Beers ('64) Big Data, the Internet, and Social Media: The Road to the November 2016 Election Wednesday, November 8th Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall) 4:30 PM
	Wanna See Something REALLY Scary? ISTS Looks at the Dark Web on Halloween Night Tuesday, October 31st Sudikoff 045 Trust Lab (dungeon) 7:30 PM - RSVP Space is Limited
	Salvatore J. Stolfo Columbia University A Brief History of Symbiote Defense Tuesday, October 31st Rockefeller 003 5:00 PM
	STAR-Vote: A Secure, Transparent, Auditable and Reliable Voting System Professor Dan Wallach Rice University Thursday April 27, 2017 Carson L01, 5:00 PM

Pandora's Power Grid - What Can State Attacks Do and What Would be the Impact?

Ben Miller
Chief Threat Officer, Dragos, Inc.
Tuesday May 2, 2017
Kemeny 007, 4:30 PM

Factual Echo Chambers? Fact-checking and Fake News in Election 2016.

Professor Brendan Nyhan
Dartmouth College
Thursday May 4, 2017
Rocky 001, 5:00 PM

Espionage and Intelligence

Professor Dickie George
Johns Hopkins University
Thursday May 11, 2017
Rocky 001, 5:00 PM

A Nation Under Attack: Advanced Cyber-Attacks in Ukraine

Ukrainian Cybersecurity Researchers
Thursday April 6, 2017
Oopik Auditorium 5:30 PM

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Examining the Cyber Capabilities of Islamic Terrorist Groups

Project Description

Discussions between law enforcement, the private sector, and academia revealed that there is a lack of authoritative unclassified materials concerning the use of cyber technology by Islamic terrorist groups. To meet this need, the Technical Analysis Group prepared a report detailing how cyber technologies are exploited by these hostile groups. Our research presents clear, factual evidence that Islamic terrorist groups are using information technologies to facilitate propaganda, recruitment and training, fundraising, communications, and targeting operations.
The open source materials used in the report include court testimony, indictments, government reports, academic reports, actual information from websites associated with terrorist groups (both from the organization itself and from sympathizer and affiliated groups), Congressional testimony, and the open media. This document uses these materials to present a clear picture for those who require awareness- level training in this domain, and provides a starting point for further research and analysis.

The report has made a significant impact for American law enforcement. As of June 2004 over 2500 copies of the report have been downloaded from the ISTS web site, and over 1700 law enforcement and cyber security professionals have been briefed on the findings. Further, the report has been as a foundation for Federal Law Enforcement Training Center course on investigating terrorism fundraising.

Project Lead: Andrew McPherson
Documentation: Examining the Cyber Capabilities of Islamic Terrorist Groups Report