The so called “peace talks” and Israel’s weak reactions to terror
Reality hits the naïve, and willingly ignorant, Israeli politicians hard on the face almost every week. While the "Peace Talks" with the Palestinians continue,...
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,...
Biometric Technology Takes Off
The use of biological markers like fingerprints, faces and irises to identify people is rapidly moving from science fiction to reality. Apple’s latest iPhone,...
INSS Global Cyber Review – September 15th
Israel
Israel: Anonymous planned new cyber-attacks on Israel web sites
AnonGhost, an affiliate group of the Anonymous hacker organization, was threatening Israel by planning new cyber-attacks...
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...
A dead soldier and impotent ministries
Due to the fact that the relevant Israeli ministries are not performing their duties Palestinians can murder Israelis.
For some reason Tomer Hazan, an Israeli...
More equitable access to DNA identification after disaster or conflict needed
The April 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza Factory Building in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,130 people were killed, is only the latest...
Military Intervention in Syria: Is It Legal?
By Sharvit Baruch, Pnina and Weinstock, Brandon.
When taking crucial decisions, nations strike a balance between moral, strategic, and legal considerations. In response to the...
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...
Can you crack GCHQ’s cyber code?
GCHQ, Britain’s intelligence agency based in Cheltenham, has launched a new recruitment drive aimed at finding the brightest minds in the land. Candidates are...
Mega Airship Back in the Air in California
Two days after receiving experimental airworthiness certification from the Federal Aviation Administration Aeros Corp. began flight-testing the Aeroscraft airship. For safety, the current flights...
The Disarmament Agreement on Syria’s Chemical Weapons, Act I: A Win-Win...
By Amos Yadlin
The agreement on Syria’s chemical weapons, reached between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and reported...
Temptation to let computers do it all, sans human element, can...
Big Data does not necessarily mean Good Data. And that, as an increasing number of experts are saying more insistently, means Big Data does...
Iran – the new round of the master plan
Only the very naive will fall for the Iranians' latest stunt: "We are ready for an agreement on our nuclear program." Well, the word...
U.S. Homeland Security launches smartphone app to catch predators
Homeland Security Investigations developed app, so citizens can report child sexual abuse with a swipe and a tap. Federal investigators want to enlist every American...
The al Qaeda Network: A New Framework for Defining the Enemy
The failure to define al Qaeda properly has confused American policy and strategy. The enemy was not just the man shot dead on May...
UAVs in the service of Homeland Security
By David Behr
Armies all over the world have been using UAVs for decades. The U.S. Army leads the way with their use in Iraq...
Unmanned naval vehicle development: A growing trend
By iHLS NewsDesk
A few countries, including Israel, are focusing more and more on the development of autonomous, unmanned surface and underwater vehicles – meant...
Survey: Medical identity theft – a growing problem
Medical identity theft is a growing problem, but many of the victims know the thief and do not want to report him or her,...
Drones hit European skies
Early next year Europe could see certified professional usage drones from LiveU and its partner Virtual Robotix hitting the skies for sports, news and...
U.S Navy autonomous aerial refueling tests underway
The Navy continues to demonstrate multiple technologies that promise to significantly increase the endurance and range of carrier-based unmanned aircraft.
As part of the Unmanned...
Backdoor Plots: The Darknet as a Field for Terrorism
By Yotam Rosner, Aviad Mendelbaum, Sean London, and Yoram Schweitzer
On Friday, August 2, 2013, the US State Department published a travel warning, and in...

















































