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Vendetta in Private Security Business

Long-standing rivalry between two Swedish special forces units has spilled into the private sector. The Swedish prosecutor’s service recently received [...]

Free and Encrypted Conversation

4After inventing the Kazaa file exchange software program - which has since been sold to Sharman Networks - two Swedish experts, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have designed a program to telephone via the Internet.

A Truly Secure GSM Phone

The small but dynamic Swedish firm Sectra - it employs a payroll of 280 - is making a big name for itself in the field of secure mobile communications while pursuing other activities in wireless information systems.

Swedish Army Beefs Up its Encryption

The Swedish defense ministry's leading supplier of secure communications equipment is working on new encryption for high speed voice, data [...]

Sweden's Unmanned Aircraft

Sweden's Saab Aerospace is now in the final phase of [...]

PINKERTON TO BE STREAMLINED

The investigative businesses of Pinkerton could be put on the auction block following the American group's acquisition by Sweden's Securitas [...]

6TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (ODCW) based [...]

AUTHORITIES FIND LOTUS "FLAW"

The Swedish government has just discovered that the encryption software in the Lotus Notes (IBM) system includes a "flaw" that [...]

SHEDDING LIGHT ON SYSTEM

The 100,000-circulation Swedish daily Dagens Industri published a 22 page report on business intelligence in Sweden on Aug. 22 with [...]

WHY THE SWEDISH TREE FELL

The American journalist Allan Francovich, reputed for his investigative documentaries on covert U.S. intelligence operations, the Gladio Stay Behind network [...]

SECURE MODEM

The Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson has unveiled a cryptographic modem [...]

SWEDES IN INFRASOUND WEAPON FOREFRONT

The Americans are not alone in trying to develop infrasound weapons. But while the United States appears to know what [...]

FIRST MAJOR PUBLIC CONFERENCE

For the first time, a major conference on business intelligence [...]

MAJOR SECURITY SHOW

Sollentuna Massan is organizing Polis 95, Scandinavia's biggest exhibition devoted [...]

SWEDES STILL LISTENING

Stories of intrusions by Russian submarines in Swedish coastal waters, [...]

INTERNATIONAL WEAPONS AND WOUNDS SYMPOSIUM

The Karolinska Institute in Sundbyberg, Sweden (fax 46 8 706 [...]

NEW ARMS IN SIPRI YEARBOOK

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (fax 46 8 655 97 33) will release its hefty 870-page SIPRI Yearbook 1994 [...]

IMMIGRANT NETWORK FROM IRAQ AND IRAN

Swedish officials say the Russian mafia is smuggling hundreds of [...]

The "Thirteenth International Symposium on Ballistics" is being organized in [...]