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Adam Bannister is a contributor to IFSEC Global, having been in the role of Editor from 2014 through to November 2019. Adam also had stints as a journalist at cybersecurity publication, The Daily Swig, and as Managing Editor at Dynamis Online Media Group.
Security services have been troubled by the prospect of Isis militants using drones to attack targets in the west for some time now.
And there’s a very real threat that terrorists could engage in biological warfare, Europe’s most senior terrorism expert has warned, spreading viruses across populated areas using drones.
To find out what Gilles de Kerchove said and for more background to the drone terror threat, watch our short video below.
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Watch: How ISIS terrorists could use drones to disperse viruses over western citiesThere’s a very real threat that terrorists could engage in biological warfare by spreading viruses across populated areas using drones, Europe's most senior terrorism expert has warned.
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Allen Van Halle
December 1, 2017 7:59 am
It is all very well publishing these articles about what terrorists could do and could not do but are not these experts giving them more ideas on how they can defeat texisting technology and he work of the police and anti-terrorist units we have working tirelessly to cut out these menaces.
It is all very well publishing these articles about what terrorists could do and could not do but are not these experts giving them more ideas on how they can defeat texisting technology and he work of the police and anti-terrorist units we have working tirelessly to cut out these menaces.