Israeli system intercepts cloud-stored data
Nowadays, everything is available at the palm of our hand. Nevertheless, these amazing capabilities, combined with our instinctive fear of the "Big Sister Syndrome"...
Law Enforcement and National Security vs. Global Business Interests
Yoram Hacohen
Three interesting processes are underway as a direct result of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the extent of the access by US security services...
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...
NSA surveillance is about to go on trial
A federal Appeals Court this week will review the government's controversial domestic spying program that collects the phone records of virtually all Americans, a...
ImiLite on its way to more customers
Rafael is negotiating the sale of its ImiLite system to some more armed forces.
The German Air Force was the launch customer for the Rafael...
iHLS TV – The FBIs Next Gen system, airborne intelligence, India’s...
iHLS Israel Homeland Security
In this weekly report (4 November 2014):
The FBIs Next Gen system
Airborne intelligence
India's defense deal
Gun violence in the US
Bio-hazard protective gear
Fusion centers: have they found their sweet spot?
Increased state investment in fusion centers may suggest a change of opinion on the information-gathering groups.
Fusion centers combine data from the Department of Homeland...
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),...
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...
Fairfax County, Va., provides real-time access to police data
Using an overhauled mapping app, citizens can access hundreds of police service calls, in addition to neighborhood disturbances, thefts, drug or sex offenses, and...
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...
Civic Apps: Can They Help Fight Crime?
In 2013, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled the police department’s latest application programming interface called ClearMap, used to handle anything from wanted lists and...
NSA Says intelligence on the Islamic state could have been ‘stronger’
The nation’s top spies, including the head of the CIA, the NSA, the Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency took the stage...
Digital jihad: ISIS, Al Qaeda seek a cyber caliphate to launch...
Jihadists in the Middle East are ramping up efforts to mount a massive cyber attack on the U.S., with leaders from both Islamic State...
iHLS TV – NSA, Undersea sensors, GHOST unmanned system, Domestic...
In this weekly episode (02 Sep 2014):
- NSA and its new tracking software
- Undersea sensors
- GHOST: The unmanned system
- Domestic extremists
- Ambulance drivers safety
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How to be friends with the NSA again
Relations between Silicon Valley and Washington have never been easy, but the technology sector’s fury about hacking by the National Security Agency has company...
NSA’s ‘MonsterMind’ could automate cyber war
The National Security Agency is developing a cybersecurity machine that could detect and automatically counter attacks against U.S. computers by blocking access to American networks, according...
Snowden: US attempt to monitor emails in Syria botched
Exiled leaker Edward Snowden strikes once more. In a new interview, he disclosed that the NSA caused a massive internet blackout in Syria following...
NSA eavesdropping as business opportunity
To many Americans, online eavesdropping by the U.S. National Security Agency is an outrage, a threat to privacy and freedom. To some, it's a business opportunity.
A small but...
iHLS TV – special intelligence edition, part 2
A review of the field of Signal Intelligence, or SIGINT – involving the analysis of electronic signals.
Fighting terror and crime using intelligence visualization
Intelligence agencies generate massive amounts of information. How can experts avoid getting flooded by the endless stream of data, and instead use it to...
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