Satellite Surveillance To Track Commercial Airplanes
by Konstantin Bodragin
Satellite surveillance is commonly thought of as belonging to the realm of spies, spooks, and secretive military intelligence types. Command, Control, Communications,...
Online Extortion And Hacker Activity Expected To Rise In 2016
Trend Micro, a global leader in security information solutions, presents its annual security information forecast report. The expected trends include a rise in online...
The Physical Security Market Is Ascending To The Cloud
When the whole world is using the cloud, it comes as little surprise that even the most secured sectors will end up using it...
Cyber Attacks Can Now Kill
80s films where computers could kill will soon become a reality, judging by a new Pentagon project.
Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin are but...
Cold War Foes Sinking Deeper into Syrian Quagmire
Konstantin Bodragin
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has presented President Obama with a plan to put boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq. According...
Terror In Turkey Awakens Local Defense Industry
Turkey has been in an uproar since last July, with violent outbreaks, protests and clashes between the Kurdish minority and police forces. This wave...
IBM Unveils Matchmaking Technology to Navigate API Economy
IBM has announced API Harmony with intelligent cloud-based API matchmaking technology for developers as part of a series of technology, product and services announcements...
Sharm el-Sheikh Airport Security Lax, Or Simply Ignored?
On Oct. 31, Metrojet Flight 9268 catastrophically broke apart over the Sinai Peninsula after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh about 20 minutes earlier and...
Military and C4I Technologies For Terrain Dominance
In today’s world, information is power - in any field. The more information we are receiving, the better our advantage and dominance in a...
North Korea Is Jamming China’s Phone Signals
North Korea has stepped up its restrictions on cellphone reception along its border with China. Signals from Chinese cellphone towers increasingly are unable to...
TSA Lets Weapons Slip Through Screening 95% Of Cases
Since its creation almost 14 years ago, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has had one goal...
A Quadcopter System To Catch Drones Mid-Air
Landing fixed-wing UAVs is a problem, a big problem. The added weight from proper landing gear greatly reduces a drone’s range and operational capability,...
An Intelligence Operational Failure Foretold
Arie Egozi
The investigation of the Russian plane crash continues but all signs points to ISIS. Egypt is trying to reject the obvious conclusion and...
Poland Wants Elbit Systems’ Realistic Combat Training System
Elbit Systems has been chosen to deliver live combat training system and equipment to the Special Operations Forces (SOF) of Poland. The Combat Training...
IAI Unveils “TERRA” Radar System
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unveils "Terra"- a dual-band radar system, for optimization of early-warning, detection and accurate tracking of very long range targets such...
France vs. ISIS
France is pulling the big guns to the fight against ISIL, or rather, its biggest ship.
The Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, the only ship...
Autonomous Buses Are Finally (Almost) Here
Autonomous cars and trucks, we are told, are just around the corner. Now, autonomous buses are, as well.
In a world-first, the Swiss city of...
How To Help A Battlefield Commander Handle The Flood Of Information
Olga Grosman-Ezrahi
The IDF is adjusting its land forces to cope with a "flood" of information from various sources, to turn what might be confusing...
RF Mapping Offers Intelligence, Communications Capabilities
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the third phase of its RF Mapping program, RadioMap,...
Egozi’s Fury – The Plane In Sinai And A Danger To...
Suspicions are increasing that a bomb was indeed placed inside the Russian passenger plane taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, causing it to explode. This...
First “East of Suez” UK Naval Base In 40 Years Begins...
by Konstantin Bodragin
UK foreign secretary Philip Hammond and his Bahraini counterpart Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa held a groundbreaking ceremony last weekend,...
Three Million Refugees expected in EU By 2017
Three million refugees and migrants could arrive in the European Union by 2017, according to predictions made by the EU's executive arm.
The European Commission has estimated one...
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A Hacker Put AI Agents to Work—and 600,000 Credit Cards Were...
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