One billion more: Kaspersky Lab counts up this year’s cyber-threats
Every year Kaspersky Lab experts evaluate the level of cyber-threats. In 2014 we saw considerable growth in the number of malicious attacks on user...
China’s Hypersonic Missiles Not Invulnerable to Missile Defense
Responding to China’s recent hypersonic missile tests, MDAA (Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance) Chairman Riki Ellison stated that the Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGVs) could be...
Spotlight on Global Jihad: Yemen
Written by The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
Report of an attempted attack on an airbase where Western forces were staying
Ansar al-Sharia (which is...
All Los Angeles Police Officers to Wear Body Cameras by 2016:...
All 7,000 officers of Los Angeles police are to be outfitted with body cameras by 2016, the city's Mayor Eric Garcetti announced, following mass unrest across the United States caused...
Turkish oil pipeline explosion – a Cyber attack?
The August 2008 Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline explosion in Refahiye, eastern Turkey, was ruled at the time to be an accident resulting from a...
Spotlight on Global Jihad: Australia
Written by The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
Terrorist attack in Australia, possibly inspired by ISIS
On December 15, 2014, an armed man took over...
Will the U.S Respond to Sony Hack?
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....
Law Enforcement and National Security vs. Global Business Interests
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...
Several handheld firefighter radios fail in simulated tests, NIST researchers find
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 will use laser weapons to protect from drones used for...
China has recently signaled its intentions to join the march toward laser weapons, unveiling a laser system designed to destroy drones. The new lasers...
FBI releases 2013 hate crime statistics
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...
“A suspicious drone 4 miles to the North”
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...
100 Million Americans could lose power in major Sun storm
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Washington: evidence ties North Korea to Sony cyberattack
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...
FAA would allow four private companies to operate drones in U.S....
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it would allow four private companies - Trimble Navigation, VDOS Global, Clayco Inc., and Woolpert Inc. -...
Key information security trends in 2015
Cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated and collaborative with every coming year. To combat the threat in 2015, information security professionals must understand these 3...
U.S Senate: Sophisticated cyberattack tools available underground to anyone
Several federal law enforcement and computer security officials told a Senate panel that increasingly sophisticated malware and other tools designed to infiltrate information systems...
The reality is changing – US Army builds a UAS only...
An airport designed for only two kinds of UAS is set to be built in the US State of Texas. At $33 million cost,...
Report: More interest in gun ownership than gun control
Public interest in gun control has dropped since if peaked two years ago, right after the deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown,...
Graphene May be used in bulletproof Vests
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...
The Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Selects ING Robotic...
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...
iHLS TV Weekly Report – December 16 2014
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In this weekly report (16 December 2014):
State Department and White House Networks Hacked at the Same Time
U.S. spends about...
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