Tag: security
PST’s deputy leader bails out
Hedvig Moe was acting leader of Norway's domestic intelligence agency PST until Beate Gangås took over full time in December. Now Moe is leaving...
More Norwegian officials trash TikTok
The Norwegian Parliament, the city governments of both Oslo and Bergen and Norway's central bank have joined the state government in trashing both the...
Government leaders drop TikTok and Telegram
Norway's government ministers, state secretaries and their political advisers have all been told to remove the apps TikTok and Telegram from their government-issued telephones...
New national threat evaluations reflect ‘a more dangerous world’
Norway's three national security agencies teamed up this year to present their evaluations of threats to national security, and they all centered on the...
Justice Minister defends her TikTok use
UPDATED: Norway's young justice minister, Emilie Enger Mehl, has finally responded to criticism over her presence on the social media platform TikTok, and for...
PST charges and identifies Tromsø spying suspect
Norway's police intelligence agency PST has now charged a guest researcher at the University of Tromsø with illegal intelligence gathering, and claims to have...
Russian envoy complains of ‘hysteria’ as police detain suspected Russian spy
Just as Russia's ambassador in Oslo was complaining of espionage "hysteria" against Russians in Norway last week, Norwegian police were closing in on an...
Police lack equipment to ground illegal drones
Norwegian police set up a project three years ago to address the threats drones can pose. They were put off, though, over ever-changing technology...
Drone drama sparks security warnings
Justice Minister Emilie Enger Mehl is urging all Norwegians to be on high alert and report any suspicious activity to police, as unidentified drones...
Northern Norway called a ‘test lab’ for Russian threats
The police chief in Norway's northernmost county of Finnmark thinks Russia has been using the area for years as a "test laboratory" for threats...
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