Bi-monthly Report – Jihadi Forums
Bi-monthly Report: Summary from Jihadi Forums - The Second Half of April 2013
By ICT's Jihadi Websites Monitoring Group
This report summarizes the most notable events...
A European Spy Network
The European Union is pondering an EU Commission proposal to acquire a fleet of surveillance drones, satellites, and planes as part of an “ambitious...
A New Land Systems Division at Rafael – adapting systems for...
Giora Katz, head of the new Rafael Land Division, said: “We will use Rafael's many capabilities to meet the demands of modern warfare, including...
The illogical General
Gen. James Mattis, a former Marine and commander of the U.S. forces in the Middle East who recently retired from the military, was known...
The U.S. is worried about its missile defense capabilities
The Pentagon is quickly moving forward with deployments of key radar and missile defense systems to Japan, Guam, Jordan, Turkey and the United Arab...
Can You Trust A Robot?
When they come — and they are coming — will the robots we deploy into human culture be capable of evil? Well, perhaps "evil"...
Cyber Attacks Against Israelis
InnoCom warns against repeated cyber attacks , propagated through viral malware embedded in various files. Most of the files ended with the extension .scr,...
INSS Global Cyber Review – July 2013
Israel
Israel: An increase of cyber security to investigate incidents
94% of hackers attack discover too late after the damage was done. These things were said...
Lessons from the Iron Dome
By Yiftah S. Shapir
INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program
Israel has been under rocket attack for many years. Particularly memorable are the shelling of Galilee panhandle...
The Classic Cyber Defense Methods Have Failed – What Comes Next?
By Amir Averbuch and Gabi Siboni
INSS – CYBER Warfare Program
The classic defense methods employed throughout the world in recent decades are proving unsuccessful in halting modern...
Security guards and guns are a bad mix!
Yesterday’s murder of a Jerusalem lawyer and his daughter proves that guns in the hands of security guards spell danger rather than security.
A disgruntled...
Determining Norms for Warfare in New Situations
By Asa Kasher and Amos Yadlin
INSS – Military and Strategic Affairs Program
Between Military Ethics and the Laws of War
The ethical doctrine of the war on terror...
Israel is among the global leaders in security export
According to data revealed by the Israeli Ministry of Defense Israel is among the top ten security exporters, 25% of the exports being missile...
A ridiculous decision that won’t change anything
The European union again made a decision that is not worth the paper it is printed on. The Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union...
The Hydro Camel Unmanned Submarine
Today, there are many remotely operated submarines that handle important tasks, such as checking underwater pipelines, mapping underwater minefields, searching for locations to place...
The smart gun
Just weeks after the firing off the world's first 3D printed handgun, a smart rifle that allows the user to accurately hit targets up to...
Can cars be hacked?
In the early hours of June 18th, a Mercedes coupé travelling at an extremely high speed along a Los Angeles street smashed into a...
The new division at Rafael will strengthen homeland defense development
The Land Division will focus on land systems development, including weapon systems, armored combat vehicle defenses, shoulder-launched systems and naval combat systems. The division...
ATLAS the humanoid robot is looking for a brain
Like the Scarecrow from “The Wizard of Oz” in search of a brain, Boston Dynamics Atlas robot created for the DARPA challenge, is also...
U.S. port facilities vulnerable to cyber attack!
In a 50-page policy paper just released by the Brookings Institute and authored by Commander Joseph Kramek of the U.S. Coast Guard and a...
Using fingerprints more efficiently
Researchers in the United Kingdom and France have developed a new and extremely sensitive method for visualizing fingerprints left on metal surfaces such as...
The Effect of Cyberwar Technologies on Force Buildup: The Israeli Case
By Gil Baram
INSS – CYBER Warfare Program
www.i-hls.com
The past decade has witnessed rapid developments in computers and information technology, leading to far reaching changes in almost all areas...
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WhatsApp Is Finally Letting You Hide Your Phone Number
For years, WhatsApp has relied on phone numbers as the primary way people connect. While simple, that approach has also created a privacy challenge....
