Cybersecurity remains a gray area for NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is expected to update its charter in September to address cybersecurity while leaving open the question of whether hacks...
Critical Infrastructures – to what Extent Are They Cyber-Resilient?
Iran’s cyberattack in April on Israel’s water infrastructure aimed at raising chlorine levels in the country’s drinking water, according to a report by the...
Billions Flow into the Tech Powering Tomorrow’s Battlefields
Artificial intelligence continues to dominate global venture capital flows, but its rise is not occurring in isolation. According to recent Crunchbase data, funding growth...
Civil Aviation Cyber Security Put to Test
The cyber security of civil aviation has been put to the test recently. A team of government, industry and academic officials successfully demonstrated that...
Putting tablets to the test
With the widespread proliferation of the Apple iPad and other tablets in the commercial world, it was only a matter of time before the...
The Nigerian Sting – “the founding fathers” of cyber crime
A cyber attack can cause a complete collapse of homeland security systems in many countries, and paralyze the functioning of basic and critical infrastructure....
Google Confirms Limited Cybersecurity Breach, Says Core Infrastructure Unaffected
Google has confirmed a data breach involving one of its Salesforce CRM instances, stating that while some business contact information was exposed, none of...
Big Data Startup? Pitch on Special Stage at Leading Conference
Startups!!! If you’ve got a ground-breaking technology in the big data field, iHLS invites you to pitch on a prestigious stage at the conference....
Critics of UK “Snoopers Charter” Claim Massive Technical Flaws
Adrian Kennard, head of UK ISP Andrews & Arnold, an Internet service provider, has warned of major technical issues with the proposed Investigatory Powers...
Cyberattack Disables Hospital for Days
Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago has been disabled by a cyberattack for over a week, blocking doctors and nurses from accessing digital patient records, and...
End of Windows XP Support to Cause Wave of Cyber Attacks
Microsoft will stop supporting the Windows XP operating system in mid 2014. Java 6 applications will also stop receiving updates. This situation, according to...
Britain to Update Cyber Security Systems
Britain's GCHQ security agency is considering developing a nationwide internet firewall to block malicious content and protect government networks from rocketing numbers of attacks,...
Italy: New Cyber Defense Center
Italy’s Finmeccanica has beefed up its presence in the growing cybersecurity business by opening a cyber attack monitoring and prevention center in central Italy,...
Quantum Computing Revolution Coming Sooner than Expected
Encryption systems have never been unbreakable, rather their security is based on the huge amount of time it would take for a classical computer...
Airport security devices vulnerable to hackers
At the Black Hat 2014 conference, Billy Rios of Qualys Security revealed details about several vulnerabilities he was able to find, most notably in...
Homeland Security Technologies on Their Way to Market
The US Department of Homeland Security’s Transition to Practice office has helped make dozens of technologies developed by government labs or research partners commercially...
State-Sponsored Hackers – The Real Cybersecurity Threat
Following the recent New York Times report about what may be the largest leak of C.I.A documents in history on WikiLeaks, Michael Hill, a...
Anonymous criticized for declaring ‘full scale cyber war’ against ISIS
An Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account has declared a "full-scale cyber war" against the Islamic State (formerly known as Isis) with the aim of tracking down...
New Electronic Warfare Platform Field Tested
A current gap in electronic warfare capabilities in terms of equipment and training in the US Army has driven the testing of new technologies....
ISIS Makes Use of Bitcoin Anonymity
The concept that bitcoin could be used to help fund terrorists has been a long-standing concern among law enforcement and government agencies worldwide. Indeed,...
Cyberespionage tactics
Kaspersky Lab reveals latest cyberespionage tactics: complexity and modularity VS functionality.
Nation-state sponsored cyberespionage attacks are becoming more sophisticated, targeting carefully defined users with complex,...
The Romanian military expenses are growing
The budgetary limitations imposed by recent economic turmoil has seen Romanian defense expenditure contract from US$3 billion in 2008 to US$1.7 billion in 2013....
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The Next Big Artillery Upgrade Could Be Putting the Gun on...
Towed artillery remains an important source of battlefield firepower, but modern counter-battery sensors and drones have made staying in one firing position increasingly dangerous....
