Stealth Motorcycle for US Special Forces?
US special forces will receive a DARPA Pentagon-financed development, a new bike called the SilentHawk stealth motorcycle. As reported on drivespark.com, the concept was...
Civic Apps: Can They Help Fight Crime?
In 2013, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled the police department’s latest application programming interface called ClearMap, used to handle anything from wanted lists and...
Qatar Adopting Smart Airport Technologies
Qatar's Hamad International Airport plans to ramp up biometric solutions alongside other innovations such as VR and robotics on its way to become a...
How to improve drone strike policy
The initial strikes against the Islamic State in Syria included missiles fired from overhead drones by operators who were hundreds or even thousands of miles away....
Next Generation Police Software Revealed
Current police dash cam systems typically only record video or ship the video back to the cloud for analysis. An intelligent in-car video system...
Drone Swarm Will Help Military in Urban Warfare
Researchers envision swarms of more than 250 autonomous vehicles – multi-rotor aerial drones, and ground rovers – to gather information and assist troops in...
China’s 10 DF-31 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles Alarm US
The United States is concerned as China's strategic missile force, or the Second Artillery Corps, has 10 DF-31 intercontinental ballistic missiles ready in service....
Terrorism finance: experts worry ISIS already using Bitcoin
Financial and terror experts are concerning about the ability to move cash around national borders could help ISIS fund attacks in the West. This...
42,000 Chinese UAVs by 2023?
The United States estimates that China is expected to have by the year 2023 a massive amount of 42,000 unmanned aerial vehicles at a...
New Chinese High-Tech Soldiers’ Helmet
China's new-generation helmet debuted in the China-Malaysia joint military exercise.
According to photos of the Peace and Friendship 2015 joint military exercise, although China's new-type...
US Navy Fears Cyber Attack, Returns To Celestial Navigation
Let’s face it, many of us don’t really remember it and the younger ones don’t even know how to navigate using a map. Ever...
INSS Global Cyber Review – July 2013
Israel
Cisco to invest in Israeli cyber-security
Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, welcomes Cisco’s decision to establish an R&D lab in Israel and the cyber...
Saudi Arabia after Abdullah
The prolonged hospitalization of the current king of Saudi Arabia, 91-year-old Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, “custodian” of oil and Islamic holy sites, has led...
Syria’s Chemical Attacks: the Strategic Significance
An article by Dr. Ely Karmon, co-authored by ICT Research Assistant Alexandra David
After the deadly chemical attack in Ghouta, last August 2013, the Syrian...
‘Smart borders’: enhancing mobility and security
Travelers entering EU’s border-free Schengen area frequently will be able to cross frontiers quickly thanks to a special machine-readable card.
The EU is moving towards...
Russia to Build a 20 Ton UAV by 2018
The prototype of Russia’s first 20-ton combat drone will be unveiled in 2018, a defense industry source said.
According to RIA Novosti the 20-ton unmanned...
Submarine-Hunting Unmanned Vessel Will Get Warfare Capabilities
The US navy is expanding the mission capabilities of its experimental submarine-hunting drone ship so that it can engage in surface warfare missions, fire...
Cyber – One of IAI’s Strategic Fields Gains Momentum
IAI’s cyber activity continues to grow. The company’s 2016 contracts concluded in this field totalled more than $100 million, all of them in the...
How to Protect Fingerprint Databases?
A new approach for a secure storage of fingerprint data is under development. Today it is becoming more and more common to use biometric...
Smart Video Analytics Would Detect Unusual Behavior in Public Transportation
Video analytics methods have emerged as an effective measure of security in public transport hubs, successfully managing the passengers' progress in stations while supplying...
New Israeli Armored Vehicle Unveiled
IMI is unveiling the ‘CombatGuard’, an armored combat vehicle designed for off-road operations and offering different levels of protection.
The CombatGuard is designed to address...
Large Procurement Process within Israeli Security Program
Israel's Ministry of Defence's (Mod) procurement administration will purchase combat systems from the Israeli security sector at an estimate of 1.5 Billion NIS (420...
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Apple’s Email Privacy Feature May Not Be as Private as You...
Email masking services have become an increasingly popular way to protect online privacy. Rather than providing a personal email address to every website or...
