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AIVD: threat against the Netherlands remains high, uncertainty regarding world order
The world is more openly in conflict. Espionage, cyberattacks and economic leads are weapons through which countries demarcate ...
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AIVD sees increase in threat of online radicalisation of minors
The AIVD sees that minors increasingly pose a terrorist threat, because of their jihadist or right-wing terrorist ideology. The ...
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AIVD, CWI, and TNO publish renewed handbook for quantum-safe cryptography
To prepare organizations for Q-Day, the day when quantum computers will be able to break certain widely used cryptography, the ...
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Cybercheck: Beware of supply chain risks
To ensure a secure, digital functioning Dutch society, it is crucial that organizations are aware of risks within their supply ...
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Annual report 2023 now available
The AIVD has published its annual report 2023. In it, we reflect on the security threats in the Netherlands and on our activities ...
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Publication Anti-institutional extremism in the Netherlands
This publication is meant to provide an insight into the threat posed by anti-institutional extremism to the democratic legal ...
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Annual report 2022 now available in English
The AIVD’s annual report on 2022 is now also available in English.
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AI systems: develop them securely
In the publication ‘AI systems: Develop them securely’, the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) shares ways AI ...
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AIVD disrupts activities of Russian intelligence officer targeting the International Criminal Court
The AIVD prevented a Russian intelligence officer from gaining access as an intern to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in ...
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Publication about cyber-attacks by state actors now also available in English
This AIVD/MIVD-publication aims to warn directors, policy makers, and managers about the methods of state actors and to provide ...
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AIVD Annual report 2020: growing breeding ground for extremism
National and international threats against Dutch society came in different and often very complex forms in 2020, also as a result ...
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Joint Sigint Cyber Unit on GitHub
As of today the Joint Sigint Cyber Unit (JSCU) of the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) and the Military ...
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AIVD exposes espionage network in the Netherlands; two Russian intelligence officers forced to leave the country
Recently the General Intelligence and Security Service ("Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst" – AIVD) disrupted the ...
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New forms for security screening
As of 19 October 2020, security screenings for individuals who require a (nationa) Security Clearance can only be submitted to ...
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AIVD publication on espionage now also available in English
How do you recognise espionage, and how can you protect your organisation against it? Our account managers provide organisations ...
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Targets of jihadist terrorism: an overview on fifteen years of attacks in the West
City busses in London, the Boston marathon, the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Brussels Airport ...
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Annual report 2018 now also available in English
The AIVD's annual report on 2018 is now also available in English. In this report, the service looks back on its activities of ...
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Iran likely involved in assassinations in the Netherlands
The AIVD has strong indications of Iran's involvement in the assassinations of two Dutch nationals of Iranian origins in Almere ...
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