Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

Special Immigrant Visas for the United States’ Afghan Allies: Lessons Learned from Promises Kept and Broken (Lawfare)

Anoush Baghdassarian, Todd Carney As thousands of Afghans rushed to the Kabul airport to flee the country out of a palpable fear of what Taliban rule...

A Strange Defense of the Biden Moratorium Extension Mess (Lawfare)

Jack Goldsmith The Biden administration’s handling of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium extension was widely viewed to be lawless and...

Pandemic/Extremism – Whose side are they on? The diversity of far-right responses to Covid-19 (ICCT)

Teun van Dongen, Eviane Leidig From the very beginning of the pandemic, government officials in the UK, Germany, and Australia voiced concerns that extreme right individuals would use the lockdown...

Counter Terrorism – Cashing in on Guns: An Interactive Infographic on Small Arms and Light Weapons and Terrorist Financing (ICCT)

What are some of the key trends and issues in Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) as a source of terrorist financing? Based on...

Blue Origin suit stops work on NASA HLS contract with SpaceX (SpaceNews)

Jeff Foust NASA will stop work on a Human Landing System award to SpaceX through the end of October as a federal court takes up...

Space – Astronauts conduct second Chinese space station spacewalk (SpaceNews)

Andrew Jones Chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming embarked on a second Shenzhou-12 spacewalk late Thursday to carry out work on a space station...

Space surveillance sensor supplier Geost acquired by private equity firm (SpaceNews)

Sandra Erwin Geost, a company that supplies space surveillance sensors to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, has been acquired by ATL Partners, a private...

SpaceX wants to give Starship lead role in revised second-gen Starlink plan (SpaceNews)

Jason Rainbow SpaceX is proposing to use Starship to rapidly deploy its second-generation Starlink constellation, providing denser rural coverage without needing more than the 30,000...

Startup raises funding to provide high-resolution imagery from balloons (SpaceNews)

Jeff Foust A Colorado startup has raised a seed round of funding to further develop a system that can provide imagery from high-altitude balloons at...

Cisco warns of Server Name Identification data exfiltration flaw in multiple products (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Unauthenticated attackers could bypass TLS inspection filtering solution in multiple products to exfiltrate data from previously compromised servers, Cisco warns Cisco warns of Server Name...

637 flaws in industrial control system (ICS) products were published in H1 2021 (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini During the first half of 2021, 637 vulnerabilities affecting industrial control system (ICS) products were published, affecting products from 76 vendors 637 flaws in ICS...

Cybersecurity – Threat actors stole $97 million from Liquid cryptocurency exchange (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid was hit by a cyber attack, threat actors stole $97 Million worth of crypto-currency assets from the company Threat actors stole...

Maldives – Faction within MDP and Political Developments in Maldives: Back to Unstable Polity? (ICWA)

Samatha Mallempati On 26th July 2021, a resolution was passed in the internal congress of the Maldives Democratic Party (MDP) calling for a declaration of...

Syria – Amid a decade of chaos in Syria: Assad achieves a landslide victory in Presidential election (ICWA)

Fazzur Rahman Siddiqui It has been a decade since the Arab Uprising swept across the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region. There are mixed...

Afghanistan/USA – Afghanistan, What Just Happened? (Hudson Institute)

Dr. Thomas Lynch, a Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Defense University and a retired army officer with extensive experience in Afghanistan, joined Mike...

Afghanistan/USA – Afghanistan, Part 1: Marshall Billingslea on the Taliban’s Illicit Financial Networks (Hudson Institute)

Amid the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, former US Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Marshall Billingslea joins Nate Sibley to discuss how the Taliban...