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• TEL AVIV - Dream Security poaches Tenable's product management director

• DUBAI - Kaymera carried by SAT in the UAE

• HERZLIYA - Fischler joins Interionet to lead European sales

• WASHINGTON - GAO confirms Boeing pick for DIA's SITE III programme

Washington counts on fledgling Negev Forum to drive Middle East security 

Keen to see the establishment of a Middle East security organisation, the US is looking to the Negev Forum to fulfill that role, despite the scant progress it has made thus far.

Influx of Russian hackers benefits Abu Dhabi's cyber offensive capabilities 

Beacon Red, the Edge Group conglomerate's Emirati cyber subsidiary, has hired a wave of cyber engineers fleeing Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. Intelligence Online understands the Russian recruits are being housed on a site separate from the rest of the company.

• ISRAEL/IRAN - Mossad satisfied by latest operation against Iran

• FRANCE - National Assembly studies defence group financing

• FRANCE - Intelligence veteran Rondot gets a biography

• RUSSIA - Mobilisation and conscription continue to split the elites

• JAPAN/VATICAN - Nippon Foundation president meets Pope Francis

• RUSSIA - Nikolai Patrushev's inner circle remodelled

Israeli OSINT specialist Labyrinth closes despite support of former intelligence chiefs 

Founded in 2018 by Israeli former military intelligence officers, the open source intelligence firm Labyrinth had heavyweight advisers on board in Tamir Pardo, Amos Yadlin and Roni Alsheich, but that didn't prevent its recent demise.

Kalman Chaim Sporn helps Turkish embassy in Washington promote rapprochement with Israel 

Despite tensions on the ground, the Israeli-Turkish rapprochement is moving forward with the help of the Turkish ambassador in Washington, Hasan Murat Mercan, flanked by consultant Kalman Chaim Sporn.

Glencore, US Justice Department and Swiss authorities enter final talks over compliance monitor 

The Swiss trading giant is still negotiating its compliance monitor with US and Swiss authorities after pleading guilty to bribery before New York and London courts in the second quarter of 2022. In this, it is heavily relying on McLarty Associates' strategic advice.

Behind the new deal between Turkey's MIT and the Mossad  Free

With Israeli-Turkish diplomatic relations now fully restored, a reconciliation over intelligence sharing appears to have been sealed as well. Turkish intelligence services and the Mossad recently discreetly signed an understanding aimed largely at allowing Tel Aviv to track down Iranian cells in Turkey.

Congress and US intelligence community see two sides of advertising cookies 

The US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has called for a report into the threat that cookies and other forms of online data collection pose to the US, despite their growing popularity with the US intelligence community.

Washington takes steps to encourage lasting security cooperation in Middle East 

The White House, the Pentagon, CENTCOM and the Senate are all working to promote the establishment of a security cooperation framework in the Middle East, centred on anti-missile defence.

Israeli warzone consultant takes on peers over US Somalia contract 

A lawsuit by Israeli warzone logistics consultant Roy Shaposhnik over one of the US State Department's biggest security contracts is dragging in the sector's biggest players in the Gulf of Aden.

• FRANCE - DGSE goes green to justify pricey new head office.

• BAHRAIN/OMAN - Cybersecurity dominates cooperation talks between Manama and Mascat.

• LITHUANIA - Anti-money laundering veteran takes helm of foreign ministry's 'sanctions' group.

• ISRAEL/SYRIA - Tsahal seeks new targets from Syrian skies.

How the Mossad outsources covert operations to its Malaysian agents 

The Mossad's attempt to run covert operations in Malaysia from Israel has recently been publicly exposed as a failure. It also unwittingly disclosed how it recruits, trains and remotely controls cells of local agents.

NSO's man in Chad, Abdellatif Ramadan, scouts for new French contacts  Free

With Israel cracking down on exports, Chadian businessman Abdellatif Ramadan, who is assisting his country's intelligence services as they expand, has turned to France.

DGSE and Mossad have front row seats at upcoming Al Halabi trial in Vienna 

The torture trial of former Syrian intelligence officer Al Halabi, due to open in Austria soon, raises questions about the handling of intelligence sources in countries with complex governance.

Iranian drone reports could see Israel increase intelligence cooperation with Ukraine 

Tel Aviv has been treading on eggshells with both Kyiv and Moscow since the start of the Ukrainian conflict, but may slightly shift its position in the light of reports of Iranian drones allegedly being used by Russia.