Cyber Survey: increased awareness of threat – alongside lack of preparedness
The global yearly survey of cyber threats performed by “Cyber Arc”: 80% of senior managers consider cyber attacks as a greater national threat than...
Leveraging Social Media During Emergency
During emergency situations like severe weather or terrorist attacks, local officials and first responders have an urgent need for accessible, reliable and real-time data....
Is Canada a cyber-superpower?
The secret hacking tactics of Canada’s intelligence agency
Canada’s electronic surveillance agency has secretly developed an arsenal of cyber weapons capable of stealing data and...
The soldier’s lie detector
Veritas Scientific, based in Virginia, markets a truth detection system called HandShake for soldiers to diagnose the trust-worthiness of people they may have to...
DNA synthesis may pose a risk of resurrecting deadly viruses for...
Homemade deadly viruses?
Scientists are warning that decades of public research on the sequencing of virus DNA are now posing unforeseen threats, as synthesis technologies...
Improvements in robot steering could save lives
A team from Sweden was able to greatly improve the ability of operators to perform tasks with remotely piloted emergency robots by making the...
US Army looking into software upgrades for battle intelligence array
Lockheed Martin is among the participants at the upcoming Autonomous Unmanned Systems & Robotics Expo on November 25-26 2014
US Army Central Intelligence is examining a...
Dangerous Apps
No less than six new malware are born each second. This, according to a recent report on various cyber threats.
The report focuses on the...
The threat: ‘Armageddon’ cyber attack on banks
This threat is an imminent - and the U.S is not ready.
A New York financial regulator recently said he is considering new rules to...
iHLS TV Weekly Video Report – March 3rd 2015
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In this weekly Video report (March 3rd 2015):
The international campaign against ISIS
Bad Iran Deal in the Offing
Innovative Face Recognition...
Additional violation of privacy
We’ve already grown used to the surveillance cameras. Now there are microphones beside the cameras and in the not-so-distant future facial recognition apps will...
US Military Keeping Up With Terrorists Tech Pace
Unmanned systems may now be in use against friendly forces. Terrorists as well as nation-states are striving to employ these systems, especially airborne platforms,...
6 Cities and a county share 311 Data
With the rise of digital, cities are pressed to answer demand for high citizen engagement with minimal - or preferably no- face-to-face involvement. The...
First responders’ technology prize to be awarded by DHS
U.S DHS launches $25K prize for innovative ways to track first responders indoors during incidents.
The Homeland Security Department's research and development arm announced it...
Online warning alert Syrians on missile attacks by their own government…
On February 25, 2013, a 26-year-old Syrian "hacktivist" who had fled Damascus was sitting up late in his apartment in a Washington suburb watching...
Mobile Cyber Security Revolution has Started
India has been advancing one more stage on the way to mobile phone cyber security. The Indian government is finalising cyber security standards to...
Color-changing film detects chemical weapons
A new way of detecting chemical weapons: thin-film materials change color in response to chemical warfare agents.
In today’s world, in which the threat of...
Update: Recent Developments at AUS&R Unmanned Systems Conference
The leading conference and exhibition in the field of unmanned systems and robotics, AUS&R, has been gaining more momentum in the world and in...
Is Biometric Identification a 100% Safe?
Innovation in biometric identification offer an exciting new frontier in security, with the global biometric system market expected to reach an estimated $32.4 billion...
New Crime Prediction System
A new crime prediction technology has been creating controversy. Brett Goldstein, an ex-cop, founded CivicScape, a technology company that sells crime-predicting software to police...
How long should an emergency message be to prove effective?
Short 90- and 140- character wireless emergency alert messages delivered over mobile devices are "substantially less effective" than much longer messages to spur people...
Effective Management Tool for Large Scale Emergency
Command, control and coordination are highly important when dealing with an emergency situation. An application for managing major incidents and events now has a...
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This AI Tool Helps Military Leaders Stay Ahead of Biological Threats
Biological threats present a unique challenge for military organizations. Information about disease outbreaks, unusual health events, laboratory findings, intelligence reports, and environmental conditions often...
