Tag: security
Secrecy hinders defense of security
NEWS ANALYSIS: The Norwegian government's insistence on withholding a highly critical State Auditor General's report on the status of national security has made it difficult if not...
‘Security so poor’ it ‘had to be hidden’
UPDATED: Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) has gained access to a State Auditor General's report on national security that was intended to be made public,...
Secrecy surrounds a lack of security
Prime Minister Erna Solberg and both her defense and justice ministers have had to admit this week, at public hearings called by the Parliament's disciplinary...
Several hundred passwords leaked
The passwords and personal information of several hundred Norwegian politicians and diplomats have been leaked in connection with attacks on social media and computer cloud...
Military intelligence unit the latest to warn about Russia
Norway's millitary intelligence unit, known as E-tjenesten, became the latest state institution to warn that Russia can influence the outcome of national elections in September....
Norway subject to major hacker attack
Several of Norway's most important institutions, including the foreign and defense ministries, have been warned by state police intelligence PST that they've been subjected...
Islamists and Russia pose biggest threat
In a chilling return to Cold War rhetoric, the head of Norway's police inteligence unit PST declared on Wednesday that Russia has the intention...
Terror threat raises some royal concerns
Norway's royal family plans to travel to Stockholm this weekend for the Swedish king's 70th birthday celebrations, but heighened terror concerns in Sweden may alter the...
Alarms ring over palace security
Five years after a lone right-wing terrorist drove a bomb-laden van right up to the entrance of Norway's government headquarters, with devastating results, the Royal Palace...
‘Police need more covert authority’
Prime Minister Erna Solberg thinks Norwegian police must be granted broader authority to use more covert methods in their efforts to track down terrorists....
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