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Cybercrime: who is the perpetrator?19 November 2024There is no such thing as the quintessential cybercriminal. It can be a Russian gang or the boy next door. What we do know is that cybercrime is an en...
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Age assurance needs to respect children's rights29 October 2024A variety of age verification methods are required, both in order to protect children and to ensure that they can participate online, a new study fund...
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How do you protect the world against cybercrime? Become the professional of the future18 October 2024Examining cybercrime from criminological, legal, administrative, and technical perspectives. The new Dutch-taught Bachelor's programme in Cybersecurit...
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Two new bachelor's programmes in The Hague explore crucial societal themes08 October 2024Leiden University is expanding its educational offering in The Hague with two Dutch-taught bachelor's programmes: Economie & Samenleving and Cybersecu...
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Graduation ceremony BSc Security Studies: 'Look beyond your own beliefs'28 August 2024On Monday, August 26, there was a big party at Wijnhaven for the graduates of the BSc Security Studies. Among other things, a blue carpet was rolled o...
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Leiden University introduces the first bachelor's programme in Cybersecurity & Cybercrime09 July 2024Starting in September 2025, the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs will offer the bachelor's programme in Cybersecurity & Cybercrime. This uniqu...
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Innovation in the shade: the difficulties for secret services04 July 2024‘Intelligence and security services need to adapt urgently to their constantly changing environment,’ says Professor by Special Appointment Bas Rietje...
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Parenting choices and parenting styles important in transmission of extremist views within families28 June 2024Do children growing up in a jihadist or right-wing extremist household develop the same extremist views as their parents? That depends in part on broa...
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Kiem initiative culminates in plan to apply for larger grant26 June 2024The interdisciplinary Kiem project ‘Violence as a Population Health Problem’ has resulted in a plan to apply for a large, yet-to-be-decided research g...
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The number of threats is increasing. But is the Netherlands less safe?11 June 2024Explosions at people’s homes, gangland killings and online threats: if you follow the news, it may seem as though threat levels in the Netherlands are...
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Meuwese and Çapkurt awarded funding for algorithmic profiling research04 June 2024The social coalition 'Over Informatie Gesproken' (meaning ‘Speaking of Information’) recently approved eleven grant applications for research aimed at...
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eLaw publishes self-assessment tool on age assurance for the European Commission16 May 2024Simone van der Hof, Professor of Law and Digital Technologies at eLaw, and Mohammed Raiz Shaffique, researcher and PhD candidate at eLaw, have publish...
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Advisory report on unacceptable behaviour published13 May 2024Today, 13 May 2024, Leiden University’s Executive Board is publishing the advice of the committee that investigated reports of unacceptable behaviour ...
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Just to be sure... At any cost?01 May 2024Security seems to most people a basic necessity of life, a prerequisite for a good life. But if you think about it a little longer and deeper, as poli...
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Leiden University starts dismissal procedure against professor on the grounds of unacceptable behaviour25 April 2024
A professor from Leiden University, together with a former employee (who is also the professor’s partner), has been guilty of long-term unacceptable a...