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Ardi Janjeva, Alexandria Reid and Anton Moiseienko
This Whitehall Report explores how criminals make money from piracy and provides recommendations on how the UK government, law enforcement and private sector stakeholders can decrease the profitability of doing so.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Organised Crime and Policing, Whitehall Reports, AML/CTF, UK, Organised Crime, TechnologyDaniel Lomas
The UK’s intelligence agencies have been criticised for not reflecting the ‘makeup of modern Britain’. But significant improvements have been made.
Tags: UK, IntelligenceTrevor Taylor and Rebecca Lucas
The initiative is clearly inspired by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, but the devil will be in the detail.
Tags: Defence, Industries and Society, Defence Spending, UK, TechnologyJames Sullivan
The UK government must learn quickly from its policy decisions around its 5G networks, and start grappling much earlier with risks posed by other emerging technologies.
Tags: Cyber Security, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, TechnologyAnton Moiseienko
Unexplained wealth orders are now being used to tackle criminal wealth in the UK, but they are more complicated and less powerful in practice than in popular imagination.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UKJamie MacColl and Sneha Dawda
An attempted cyber attack against a water treatment plant in Florida highlights endemic failures in the cyber security of the US water sector.
Tags: Cyber, Cyber Security, United States, Resilience, TechnologyAndrew Futter and Bleddyn E Bowen
A cocktail of major events might have serious implications for the UK's nuclear deterrent.
Tags: RUSI Journal, Trident, UK, UK DefenceTom Keatinge
The UK has lost its global leadership of the fight against illicit finance. The Johnson government must get the UK back on track.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, UKSandor Fabian
This article proposes that ‘professional irregular’ forces would provide the Baltics with the best defence against Russian aggression.
Tags: NATO, RUSI Newsbrief, Russia, Defence Policy, EuropeGeneral Sir Nicholas Carter, Chief of the General Staff, elaborates on some of the increasingly real threats that pose a risk to the UK’s way of life. He considers the implications of the evolving...
Tags: UK, Defence Policy, Land Forces, Military PersonnelCountering Money Laundering in an Evolving Technological Landscape
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, TechnologyArtificial intelligence (AI) will play a transformative role in the twenty-first century human experience – including conflict. What role exactly remains to be seen, yet we have already had a glimpse...
Tags: Cyber, Information, Law and Ethics, Technology
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