To hack back or not to hack back? NATO's European members are at odds with the US's drive to make the alliance's cyber defence policy more offensive, which raises the question of its abilities to attribute cyberattacks, a highly political matter.
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Cybersecurity A New York court has rejected Omar Alghanim's discovery proceedings against his father Kutayba Alghanim, thereby ending a dispute in which the ultimate loser has been the family conglomerate just as it negotiates several defence contracts.
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Corporate Intel Set up by former French armed forces ministry cyber experts, young Franco-Singaporean company Xrator is looking to win a contract from Singaporean IT distributor NCS, which has good connections with the city-state's authorities.
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Cybersecurity The French ministry of the interior signed a deal with the fledgling Singaporean security and intelligence technology development agency Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) in 2019. Covid-19 then got in the way of the project, which France is now trying to rekindle.
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Contractors Prime Minister Mario Draghi wants to use 'Golden Power' legislation to keep an eye on foreign businesses buying key assets and is hiring a team of academics to do so.
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Agencies The sanctions and other measures imposed on Russia and Belarus by the West have created the conditions for a new round in the potash war between Russian, Canadian and Belarusian companies. After having been circumstantial allies, Nutrien and Uralkali are now fighting each other for control of the Belarusian potash industry.
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Corporate Intel The Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has been busy lately producing amendments and bills aimed at facilitating the army's operations. It is now poring over military counter-espionage.
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