Hackers Penetrate, Control Water Utility
Hackers managed to gain privileged access to a water utility’s control system and change “the levels of chemicals being used to treat tap water,”...
Cybersecurity Is About To Get Quantum Upgrade
Researchers at the University of Sydney just made a major breakthrough in cyber security. They managed to get single photons to behave as carriers...
US to Provide Support For Chinese Nuclear Security Training Center
U.S. Sandia national labs and their Chinese counterparts have launched the Chinese Center of Excellence (COE) for nuclear security. Homeland Security News Wire reports...
The Israeli Startup: PSIM System to Help Infrastructures Stay Safe
Today critical infrastructures have to simultaneously manage complex facilities, limited resources, answer to government agencies, deal with a growing amount of disparate technologies and...
The New Cryptography: Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes - is there anything they can’t do? They’re strong, hard, loaded with unique electrical, thermal, and optical properties, and have been heralded...
Terrorism: Agriculture Should Have No Less Concerns
The US House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security’s Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications Subcommittee recently held a hearing to examine the threat level...
The Israeli Startups: The Future Of Authentication Systems
Most current password security systems for the Internet are flawed. And it goes beyond the systems themselves: Passwords really are just an awful way...
Components of ISIS IEDs Found To Be Made In US
A crucial component ISIS uses to control its roadside bombs is made by American companies, a new report reveals.
Conflict Armament Research (CAR) spent 20...
Lingacom Awarded 1 Million Euro for Muon-Based Vehicle Scanning Solution
Lingacom, a developer and manufacturer of muon-based detection solutions, announced that it has been awarded a 1 million Euro contract by the European Commission’s...
Obama wants YOU for US CyberCorps!
President Barack Obama’s administration released the presidential Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) this week. CNAP is an attempt to fix the broken federal information...
Israel: An Exemplar Of Cyber Development For The World Economic Forum
During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led discussions on the subject of cyber security, and...
How Are Cyber Companies Really Doing In The Startup Nation?
Israel’s cyber sector is still dominated by startups, despite “growing at a breakneck pace,” according to the folks over at the Defensive Cyber Operations...
EMP Could Toast Electrical Grid (And How To Protect Against It)
Canada and the United States are vulnerable to cataclysmic threat that could “topple the pillar of civilization,” according to Dr Peter Pry, head of...
Internet of Things Comes To Antarctica
Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity provider Sigfox will team up with GPS supplier Sonsolus and the Belgian government to provide a low-power, ultra-narrow band...
Princeton: IoT Devices’ Security Flawed
The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing, soon to be a permanent feature of our lives, but there are some things about it which...
Cyber Attacks On Critical Manufacturers Increasing
According to the US Department of Homeland Security, the number of investigations into cyber attacks on the America’s critical manufacturing sector nearly doubled last...
Most Cyber Products Will Not Be Included Under New Supervision Law
About two weeks after publishing the draft of the export law for supervision on cyber export, and as part of the talks between exporters...
Man Charged With Smuggling US UAV Parts to Pakistan
The United States is trying to prosecute a man accused of trying to smuggle parts for military-grade drones to the Pakistani military.
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Major Hack in Juniper Networks Equipment
US officials are worried that hackers backed by foreign governments were able to spy on communications between the US government and private companies for...
New Technology Can Detect Physical Attacks Using WiFi Signals
The Internet of Things (IoT) is fast becoming an everyday reality, with about half of enterprises set to deploy IoT solutions by the end...
Blockchains To Protect UK’s Nuclear Power Plants
Power plants are some of the most critical bits on infrastructure. An attack against a power plant could incapacitate an entire region of any...
Elbit Provides RUAG Defence with Cyber Security Simulator
Elbit Systems' wholly-owned subsidiary, CYBERBIT, was awarded a contract to provide the Switzerland-based company, RUAG Defence, with CYBERBIT’s CyberShield - Cyber Security Trainer and...
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Metal That Behaves Like a Gel Could Redefine High-Temperature Systems
A research team at Texas A&M University has developed the world’s first metallic gel — a new class of material that combines the strength...
