How do criminal and terrorist organisations exploit the Internet?
Contemporary terrorist and criminal organizations increasingly exploit the Internet to spread their message and gain support throughout the world, using the Web as a communication tool, in particular for recruitment and propaganda activities, but also for disinformation, raising funds, organisation, planning, and financial transactions. As part of the EC funded DANTE project, eighteen partners from […]
Advancing standardisation to strengthen disaster resilience
When a disaster occurs, functioning interoperability could mean the difference between life and death, particularly when there is a need for international or cross border responses; for example when responding to threats such as climate change related natural hazards and international terrorism. Developing and implementing standards in the field of disaster resilience and crisis management […]
Trilateral Research develops a new risk assessment method for analysing the Risk of Modern Slavery in Conflict
In 1808, HMS Solebay was the first British ship to be part of the anti-slavery operation patrolling the African Atlantic coast to halt the Atlantic slave trade. Today, over two hundred years later, Trilateral’s Project Solebay developed risk assessment tools for the UK military to support them in responding to modern slavery and human trafficking. The Global Slavery […]
The contemporary cybercrime ecosystem: A multi-disciplinary overview of the state of affairs and developments,
COPKIT workshop: How can new technologies support Law Enforcement Agencies to stay ahead of organised crime?
What are the technical requirements of new technologies for Law Enforcement Agencies to stay ahead of organised crime and terrorist groups? And what are the legal and ethical implications? These are but some of the questions that will be addressed during the COPKIT workshop this September. The COPKIT project focuses on the problem of analysing, […]
Developing new technology to stay ahead of terrorism and organised crime
Trilateral Research joins law enforcement agencies, technology and information systems companies and other research institutions from several EU countries in the newly launched, EU-funded COPKIT project, for a game-changing initiative to combat terrorism and organised crime. While organised crime and terrorist (OCT) groups are often at the forefront of technological innovation for planning, executing and […]
Working together to design new technologies to fight crime and terrorism
Organized crime and terrorist organisations are often at the forefront of technological innovation in planning, executing and concealing their criminal activities and the revenues stemming from them. Trilateral Research has worked in many projects aiming to develop solutions to tackle cybercrime, terrorist activities and understand their use or novel technologies. We would like now to […]
Assessing the Privacy and Ethical Impacts of new technologies: the RAMSES project case study
With expertise in privacy, data protection and ethics, Trilateral support responsible innovation and the operationalisation of privacy and data protection. A prime example of our work in this area is the use of a Privacy and Ethics Impact Assessment in the RAMSES project. The RAMSES project The RAMSES project is a collaboration between 11 European […]
Developing new forensic tools to combat Internet Organised Crime and Terrorism
Today Internet Organized Crime and Terrorism (IOCT) is worryingly expanding. Among others, a few examples include: ransomwares, namely malwares restricting access to files and requesting the payment of a ransom in Bitcoin to remove the restriction; theft of virtual currencies; financing of terrorist activities through Bitcoin payments in the darknet; virtual kidnapping, consisting of sending […]
TRI’s Crisis team participate in the 7th IRDR Conference
Last month, the Crisis team’s Su Anson and Maurice Said participated in the 7th Annual Conference of the Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction (IRDR) at UCL, presenting information on two projects – ResiStand and PREP1. The conference took place on 21st June 2017 in London and brought together over 150 researchers, practitioners, NGO representatives, and members […]
