Geo-politics

The U.S. is weighing a “range of options” to respond to the hack of Sony Pictures, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said recently....

Yoram Hacohen Three interesting processes are underway as a direct result of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the extent of the access by US security services...

Mini unmanned air systems (UAS) will be capable of carrying laser designators. EL OP, Elbit Systems' subsidiary, has unveiled the smallest laser designator that can...

Firefighters might lose communications during an incident if their handheld radios are exposed to high temperatures, according to new tests conducted by the National...

China has recently signaled its intentions to join the march toward laser weapons, unveiling a laser system designed to destroy drones. The new lasers...

The FBI released Hate Crime Statistics 2013, the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s first publication to present data collected under the Matthew Shepard and...

The North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, will launch a giant drone-hunting blimp over Maryland’s Aberdeen Proving Grounds just east of Washington D.C. The...

Internal document says FEMA unsure of damage to grid from magnetic storm Millions of Americans face catastrophic loss of electrical power during a future magnetic...

U.S. intelligence agencies said they have concluded that the North Korean government was “centrally involved” in the attacks on Sony’s computers. This conclusion was leaked...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it would allow four private companies - Trimble Navigation, VDOS Global, Clayco Inc., and Woolpert Inc. -...

Omer Einav In recent months there have been clear signs of Hezbollah's legitimacy rebounding in Lebanon’s political and civilian spheres. The current governmental vacuum suits...

An Australian-run medical center for Ebola patients has opened in Sierra Leone overnight, the foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, has announced. Australia’s Foreign affairs minister...

Cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated and collaborative with every coming year. To combat the threat in 2015, information security professionals must understand these 3...

China's domestically developed global navigation satellite system Beidou will be fully operational by 2020, Xinhua news agency reported last week, citing the head of...

Several federal law enforcement and computer security officials told a Senate panel that increasingly sophisticated malware and other tools designed to infiltrate information systems...

An airport designed for only two kinds of UAS is set to be built in the US State of Texas. At $33 million cost,...

Public interest in gun control has dropped since if peaked two years ago, right after the deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown,...

In the search for a better material for bullet-proof vests, researchers are turning to graphene, which they say works twice as well as the...

South Korea has decided to purchase Israel aerospace industries (IAI) Heron-1 unmanned air system (UAS). The Defense Acquisition Program Administration decided to buy an undisclosed...

Hitler was a righteous person; ice is heat source, and the Earth is square. Such "truths" have just been added another; the EU’s Supreme...

The Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI) has purchased ING Robotic Aviation's Responder rotary wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system. The robotic...

Register to iHLS Israel Homeland Security In this weekly report (16 December 2014): State Department and White House Networks Hacked at the Same Time U.S. spends about...