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Training people to fight terrorism – a new U.S. initiative
Secretary of State John Kerry, in a Friday speech to the Global Counterterrorism Ministerial Forum, unveiled a new U.S. initiative to address the root...
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U.S Air Force officials are working to develop an “effective” procurement model for buying equipment and services related to activities in the cyber domain,...
Star Wars weapons? Scientists create ‘lightsaber’ molecules
Don't expect to begin your Jedi training any time soon, but scientists have created molecules that, in effect, behave like the deadly "Star Wars"...
Iran hacked U.S. Navy Computers
U.S. officials revealed that Iran hacked unclassified Navy computers in recent weeks in an escalation of cyber attacks against U.S. infrastructures.
The Wall Street Journal...
Taking pictures of earth from 36.000 km in space
Operational imaging intelligence satellites see the earth from altitudes of 400-600 Km. Now the challenge is to collect intelligence from an altitude of 36.000...
Biometric exits at U.S. airports are a big headache
A top official at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) cautioned that a biometric exit system at airports could be a vast waste of money...
Turkey is breaking away from the west and NATO
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Predator UAS Saves Life in Rim Fire Disaster Relief Efforts
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems announced that a MQ-1 Predator unmanned air systems (UAS) successfully supported firefighters in their efforts to contain California’s Rim Fire,...
NASA, Homeland Security Test Disaster Recovery Tool
NASA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are collaborating on a first-of-its-kind portable radar device to detect the heartbeats and breathing patterns of...
Boeing QF-16 Aerial Target Completes 1st Pilotless Flight
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have completed the first unmanned QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target flight, demonstrating the next generation of combat training...
JFK Airport Customs are a drag on the economy
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Critical infrastructure risks in the U.S. still high
Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure (CI) in the U.S. is up — way up, particularly in the energy sector. The Department of Homeland Security's...
Iran’s Great Shiite Fleet
Iran is significantly expanding its naval capabilities as the U.S. Navy removes one of its two aircraft carriers from the Persian Gulf due to...
New UAS design to have 120 hours endurance
Israeli manufacturers are trying to extend the endurance of their of unmanned air systems (UAS). In the meantime the U.S. Aurora Flight Science’s Orion...
Iran is developing new ballistic missiles
Iran has been developing some new types of long range ballistic missiles and some will become operational within a year according to Israeli sources...
Africa – cybercrime has turned the web into a hub of...
Africa is becoming an “online continent” despite its economic difficulties, at the same time there is a growing incidence of cybercrime.
According to Security Affairs...
A Robotic Security Vehicle was tested at the Daytona Beach International...
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Israeli wireless communication for Russian safe city video surveillance project
Radwin announced that its wireless broadband systems were deployed by the City of Nefteyugansk in Siberia, Russia for a major Safe City project. The...
Hacking U.S. Secrets, China Pushes for Drones
For almost two years, hackers based in Shanghai went after one foreign defense contractor after another, totalling at least 20 in all. Their target,...
Kenya, incapable of handling terror
The Kenyan security forces are incapable of handling a terror attack like the one that took place yesterday in Nairobi. Israeli sources said this...
Cyberweapons likely to be big part of any U.S. – Syria...
A U.S. led military attack on Syria may have been averted, at least for a while, by the Russian proposal to negotiate the transfer...
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