DARPA director calls for cyber security change
In a recent C-SPAN interview by Mary Jordon from the Washington Post, Dr. Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), conducted stated:...
How hackers wreaked havoc in St. Louis
Anonymous operatives have been terrorizing police officers, officials and residents over the past three months.
The first call came on a Thursday, 12 days after...
Protecting Internet of Things from malicious attacks
In this day and age, when IoT (Internet of Things) is fast becoming a key feature of everyday life, any malicious strike and intentional...
iHLS TV – Cyber task force, new UASs, laser-guided artillery shell,...
iHLS Israel Homeland Security
In this weekly report (11 November 2014):
The National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force: NCIJTF
New UASs: SpyLite mini and BlueBird
Raytheon is testing a new laser-guided...
Data security management in critical energy infrastructure
Data security in critical energy facilities is a highly complex task. Various data systems provide a great deal of information which comes in diverse...
Hackers’ New Malware Infects West Pennsylvania Computers, Vexes FBI
Private industry experts said they believe hackers in Eastern Europe devised the malware, and they said it seems ready to blow up across computer...
The next big thing to fight hackers? Self-healing computers
Agency networks should be able to not only continuously detect hackers and throttle their destructive tactics — but also robotically bounce back.
“We’ve talked about the...
‘Widespread Harm’ likely from cyberattack in next decade
A majority of Internet experts think that by 2025, a major cyberattack will have caused widespread harm to a nation's security and capacity to...
Even Cellular providers spy on their clients
Who should individuals be more concerned about – intelligence and espionage agencies or their own local cellular companies?
In an expose on Verizon (NYSE: VZ),...
FBI and Secret Service Team Up to Educate Private Sector on...
FBI Executive Assistant Director Robert Anderson speaks on cyber security during a joint FBI/U.S. Secret Service presentation before the Financial Services Roundtable that was...
FBI director: “actually, we do sometimes spy without a warrant”
on Thursday clarified a statement he made earlier in the week that the FBI never conducts electronic surveillance without a court order, saying, "There...
Cyber security task force takes ‘whole government’ approach
In today’s virtual world, it is well-known that cybercrime can jeopardize our privacy, our economy, and even our national security. Less well-known is an...
iHLS TV – Nuclear Turkey, Apache simulator hacked, drone strikes in...
iHLS Israel Homeland Security
In this weekly report (21 October 2014):
German intelligence: Turkey is working on its own nuclear program
Gamers hacked US Army Apache simulator
US...
Internet troll? You may be subject to 4 years in prison
A recent story in the Guardian (16.10.2014) reported that Justice Secretary Chris Grayling is promoting legislation according to which anyone indicted of internet 'trolling'...
Met Police and NCA: UK businesses are not helping fight cyber-crime
Two of the UK's top cyber crime-fighters have accused financial institutions and other companies of failing to share information about cyberattacks because of 'mutual...
Microsoft says NSA spying hit trust in the cloud
A senior Microsoft spokesman says that government surveillance has damaged trust in the cloud and in the company itself, pushing the latter to focus...
ODNI crowsources speech-recognition software
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) wants to crowdsource ideas for software that would make human speech recorded in noisy environments more easily...
iHLS TV – New recon UAV, campaign against militants, new head-mounted...
In this weekly report ((14 October 2014)):
Northrop Grumman unveils new reconnaissance UAV
New American internet campaign ridicules militants
Elbit's new head-mounted display for pilots
Cyber attack across...
Economic warfare on US retail chains: hackers target K-Mart – Part...
Part 2
The first part focused on the initial revelations of the cyber attack, the discovery of the malware (malicious software) by K-Mart’s IT-team and...
Economic warfare on US retail chains: hackers target K-Mart – Part...
Sears (NASDAQ: SHLD) announced last Friday (Oct 10) some of K-Mart's outlets (out of at least 1,200 in the US alone), which is a...
Law enforcement agencies use technology to compensate for shrinking budgets
With funding shrinking in many sectors of law enforcement, agencies are searching for new ways to operate affordably while maintaining quality standards. Police departments’...
Hackers breached US Army network
Gamers targeting Apache helicopter simulators belonging to the US Army hacked into an Army network.
Federal officials have indicted "Xbox Underground", a group of twenty-something-year-old...
Latest
This Laser-Powered Tech Could Help Build Smarter 6G Networks
Future wireless networks are expected to handle far more than faster internet speeds. Emerging 6G concepts aim to combine communications with sensing and AI-driven...
