Report: NSA broke into UN video teleconferencing system
The U.S. National Security Agency has reportedly cracked the encryption used by the video teleconferencing system at the United Nations headquarters in New York...
Saab Counter-UAV Radar Gets New Capabilities
Saab has announced that it has made upgrades to the ability of its Giraffe surface radars to detect both UAVs and stealth-cloaked aircraft.
When a...
The IDF wants more small UASs for the brigade level
The Israeli defense forces (IDF) have accelerated their efforts to deploy a very advanced unmanned aerial system, UAS, for the brigade level. The need...
Nokia Accused of Selling Surveillance Equipment to Egypt
Human rights advocacy group Privacy International has accused Finnish telecommunications firm Nokia Networks and controversial Italian cybersecurity firm Hacking Team of secretly selling surveillance...
Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats
A sensor previously used for military operations can now be tuned to secretly locate and record any single conversation on a busy street.
EVERYONE knows...
HD-quality video: Now available in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
CONTROP is among the presenters at the upcoming Autonomous Unmanned Systems & Robotics Expo on November 25-26 2014
Operational demands from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)...
U.S Military Upgrades its C5ISR Capabilities
The U.S. military faces a critical stage in establishing and maintaining its position as a world leader in the new technologically advanced environment of...
More Security Cameras – Paranoia in Mexico City
Mexico City doubles its municipal security system, adding thousands of additional cameras.
Mexico city recently signed a contract with the Latin American security company Telmex,...
Elta, Triton Expected to Win Contracts from Philippines
The Philippines’ Defense Department is expected to award military modernization projects to Elta System Ltd and Triton Communication Corp for the supply of air...
New Pod System Offers Aircraft Extreme Computing Capabilities
A new technology is capable of being flown on remotely piloted aircraft in a pod-based enclosure and enables on-board, high-performance embedded computing to derive...
China Boosts Surveillance State Using (Not) Big Data
In a not surprising turn of events, China is employing ever more sophisticated technologies in its surveillance apparatus to allow authorities to profile and...
Analyzing The New US President’s HLS Policy
The backgrounds of the members of the team that President-elect Donald Trump is picking to shape the Department of Homeland Security suggest he will...
Commercial unmanned air system (UAS) to be operational soon
Insitu is planning to launch the first U.S. commercial unmanned aircraft system operation following receipt of FAA type certification for its ScanEagle UAS on...
How to Process the “Mountain” of Video Data?
How can security forces deal with the astronomic amounts of video data collected by all sorts of different sensors? Over the past decade, technological...
iHLS TV – Ebola, domestic extremism, Shellshock bug, new octocopter and...
In this weekly report (7 October 2014):
Ebola as seen from space
Domestic extremism Summit at the Whitehouse,
Hackers unleash Shellshock bug
New octocopter UAS
Darpa looking into the...
DHS – Lone-wolf terror attack could come at any moment
A lone-wolf terrorist could attack the United States at any time, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson warned earlier this week.
“We’re very definitely in a...
Watch: RAF Bombs Islamic State Oilfield
British fighter jets targeted another Syrian oilfield during the second combat sortie from the British base in Cyprus over the weekend.
Typhoons and Reaper Unmanned...
Autonomous UAS Decision Making Displayed at International Competition
The Israeli Technion was placed 4th in the AUVSI International Student UAS Competition for developing and flying an autonomous aero-system.
Universities from all over...
Mozambique Considers Domestic Production of UAS
Unmanned aircraft could be assembled in Mozambique, under collaboration between the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Engineering Faculty of the...
iHLS TV Weekly Edition – AUS&R 2014
iHLS Israel Homeland Security
In this weekly report (25 November 2014):
The AUS&R 2014 Conference and Exhibition will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, November 26, under any...
Some Much Needed Upgrades For This UAV Generation
For the current generation of unmanned systems to survive in contested environments, they need upgrades to situational awareness, automation and weapons, a major U.S....
Advanced Electro-Optics Systems Enable Long Range Performance
Elbit Systems announced that it was awarded a contract valued at over $90 million from an Asia-Pacific country, for the supply of SPECTRO XR...
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