Scientists to Develop Nuclear Weapons Detectors
Penn State University has received a $5 million, 5-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and DHS for nuclear threat inspection, as part...
Biodefenses for Brazil’s 2014 World Cup
According to Dialogo, the guidelines were published in recent weeks in the Official Journal of the Union. The guidelines, which will take effect in...
Brazil Becomes Hot Market for Surveillance Technology Ahead of World Cup
Giants of the surveillance sector get contracts in a number of Brazilian cities during the games of 2014 – from security scanners to remote...
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...
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...
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...
The Nasdaq can be hacked in 10 minutes
Just 10 minutes could be sufficient for an attacker to hack the Nasdaq Stock Market, this was the alert sounded by Ilia Kolochenko, head...
New Medical Air Filtration Systems
By iHLS NewsDesk
A group of Israeli eye doctors climbs a mountain somewhere in Latin America, to an altitude of almost 10,000 feet. Their goal:...
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...
Northern Virginia Community College is offering a new degree focusing on...
Northern Virginia Community College is offering a new associate degree that focuses on homeland security. The new Homeland Security Specialization degree falls under NOVA’s...
Defense technology helps to predict killer storms
When the TV weatherman predicts sunshine and it rains, people get wet. When meteorologists are wrong about a hurricane, people can die. While forecasters...
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...
New water purifier for Marines and First Responders
A new, easy-to-carry water purifier that could give Marines and first-responders access to clean water wherever they go has successfully completed its first operational...
Cyber Training and Simulation – Getting Ready
“In the last few years, cyber threats have undergone an evolutionary – and even revolutionary – process. We’ve seen escalations like never before”, said...
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...
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...
Israel is not prepared for an attack on its cities
We already mentioned the facts that are included in the state comptroller's report that was published today, but even we did not realize how...
Cyber attacks on Power companies
A series of recent cyber attacks used basic tools to break into power company networks and threaten their automated systems, according to a memo...
The dangers of Israel as a digital country
Cisco’s plan to turn Israel into the world’s “first digital country” might not be such a good idea, according to top US security expert...
The Dutch navy will use a simulator to get ready for...
On the heels of a delivery to the Royal Netherlands Air Force, Environmental Tectonics Corp. has signed a contract for an additional disaster-management simulation...
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A New Quantum Breakthrough Could Change Signal Detection on the Battlefield
Modern military and civilian communications environments are becoming increasingly crowded. Drones, radios, sensors, satellites, electronic warfare systems, and wireless networks all compete for space...
