Massachusetts School to Debut ‘Active Shooter’ System
A Methuen Mass school will soon deploy an automated system to detect and track a gunman on campus.
Methuen Mayor Stephen Zanni and other city...
Computers Can Be Fooled By Optical Illusions, Raising Security Concerns
Computer vision has made great strides over recent years. Machines can now recognise objects nearly as well as humans. However, the similarity does not...
U.S: Police Hid Spy-Tool Use from Judges
A non-disclosure agreement that police departments around the country have been signing for years with the maker of a cell-phone spy tool explicitly prohibits...
U.S. power plants, utilities face growing cyber vulnerability
American power plants and utility companies face a growing cyber vulnerability. No U.S. power plant has so far suffered a significant cyberattack, but experts...
UK Struggles To Keep Tab On Cyber Stage Of Terror
Paz Shabtai
While around 250 Jihadists have returned to France from Syria, England is reported to expect almost double that. As of now, MI5 and...
Israeli Company to Deliver UAS Simulator to Minnesota College
Israeli company, Simlat was selected to provide an UAS & ISR Training & Simulation Center for the Northland Imagery Analysis college program. Northland’s Imagery...
Israel has evidence on the Syrian chemical attack
Israeli sources said that the IDF’s intelligence unit, Unit 8200 – which, among other intelligence operations, routinely eavesdrops on communications among military and political leaders...
Chinese Leaker Sentenced To Death
A Chinese computer engineer has been sentenced to death for leaking more than 150,000 classified documents. Huang Yu, 48, was sentenced for leaking the...
Strategic US-India Bond Deepens
The Trump Administration has approved a $2 billion sale of Guardian MQ-9B unarmed drones to India for maritime surveillance. The approval comes at a...
New Drone to Enhance Warships in Future Naval Scene
Naval defence company DCNS and helicopter manufacturer Airbus Helicopters are joining forces to design the future tactical component of France’s Naval Aerial Drone (SDAM) programme....
Small Unmanned Aerial Systems will Help Custom and Border Teams
Innovative technologies for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) will be implemented by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
Surveillance cameras in passenger planes?
Discussions in the aftermath of the Germanwings plane crash have raised the demand that surveillance cameras would be put in the cockpit, as an...
Apparently, Even The Sky Isn’t The Limit
SpaceX took on a bold new challenge recently, launching a “classified spacecraft payload” for the United States’ National Reconnaissance Office for the first time. The...
UK MoD Makes Important Upgrade
The UK Ministry of Defense has been upgrading its surveillance systems. Excelitas Technologies company Qioptiq has received a $100m surveillance and target acquisition contract...
Swiss Enable Surveillance, for Sake of Safety
Swiss voters have given an approval to a law on new surveillance powers for the intelligence agencies.
The new law would allow the authorities to...
How serious is Cybercrime in the US?
I know what you did last year on the beach...
Cyber crime in the U.S is getting more sophisticated.
Newly released documents show how hackers infiltrated...
Privacy Right – How to Regulate Civilian Use of UAVs?
By Uri Volovelsky, lawyer and researcher on law and technology
The use of unmanned aircraft (UAVs) for civilian purposes has become part of reality during...
Enhanced Intelligence Capabilities to Indago 3 UAS
The new version of Lockheed Martin’s Indago quadrotor now enables military customers to securely complete sensitive intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. TrellisWare Technologies...
New Surveillance Radar Especially Suited for Mini UAVs
A new ultra-light surveillance radar, the Gabbiano TS has been unveiled by Leonardo, the result of the company’s efforts to package all the technology...
Social Media Ban on Using Their Data for Surveillance
The new privacy policy announced by Facebook and Instagram bans developers from using their data for surveillance. Following revelations last year that police departments...
India’s CCTV boom
The Indian closed circuit television (CCTV) market is growing at an annual rate of 30 %. Will Israeli companies manage to benefit from this...
Elbit unveils innovative flight system
Elbit Systems recently completed a series of successful helicopter flight tests in Zurich, using the SkyVis Day/Night Head Mounted Display (HMD) onboard an AW-109SP...
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A New Airborne Detection System Could Expand Underwater Tracking Capabilities
Detecting objects beneath the ocean surface remains one of the most difficult challenges in maritime sensing. Water limits the effectiveness of many conventional detection...
