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Articles and issues discussed in this episode: Facebook's new facial recognition software Kremlin official website hacked Commercial UAV use in the U.S. lags behind NSA records all...

The ground segment for the U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk autonomous aircraft will be modernized by Raytheon, within the framework of a subcontract...

The consequences of the Big Data revolution in all the technological fields and the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with this regard were the...

The operational world that interests governments the most nowadays is the intelligence world. Unlike the “national/military” intelligence of the past, the current intelligence realm...

A new unmanned aerial vehicle features dual-use capabilities.  Leonardo’s big new unmanned air vehicle (UAV), the Falco Xplorer, is aimed at providing intelligence, surveillance...

Cameras are replacing aircraft in fire awareness. A network of high definition cameras placed on peaks throughout the Lake Tahoe region in the US...

The total global surveillance and security market generates revenues of approximately $81 billion per year. Individual country markets are growing in the range of...

A recent study from Penn State University has revealed a surprising security concern: Millimeter-wave radar can pick up and transcribe private phone calls by...

A new geospatial mapping interface allows users to better comprehend physical location information. The use of static facility floor plans overlaid directly onto the...

A Washington think tank has estimated the likely annual cost of cybercrime and economic espionage to the world economy at more than $445 billion...

The attack vector NetTraveler (a.k.a Netfie, Travnet or Red Star APT), has been detected again. This is a new, advanced threat that has already...

The Australian police have been trying to target would-be ­extremists before they conduct a terrorist attack, with the formation of the Fixated Persons Investigations...

General Dynamics have launched a Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and the Bluefin SandShark Micro-Underwater Vehicle during US Navy sponsored 2016 Annual Naval Technology...

The recent disclosures about the U.S. intelligence agencies are causing more damage as time passes. As the nation’s spy agencies assess the fallout from disclosures...

Governments are behind most cyber attacks on media and journalists, this according to the findings of a research conducted by Google and presented last...

The Pentagon and military services are expediting an effort to foster more cross-domain interoperability between networks operating on its intelligence channels. The system, known as...

"Big brother"  is already seeing almost everything. Now at least in the U.S. , he is going to look into our very intimate e-mails....

A new version of the Black Hornet nano-UAV enables the warfighter to maintain situational awareness, threat detection, and surveillance for battle damage assessment, pre-deployment...

The need for a clear and reliable security system which broadcasts high-quality images is almost obvious. Whether for intelligence or surveillance, for securing areas, cities...

Coordinating multiple drones and ground robots during a complex mission is rarely simple. Operators must manage sensor feeds, assign roles, deconflict movement paths and...

Typical battery-powered drones offer between 20 and 30 minutes of flight time and often require generators to be brought on site for battery charging....

The famous British philosopher and strategist Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, who coined the term “indirect approach strategy”, used to say that “the deepest...