American UAV Manufacturer Raises $7 Million Dollars
CyPhy Works, developer of advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), has announced the latest round of financing, this time $7 million, led by Lux Capital...
Hi-Tech Tattoos Could Replace Personal Passwords
Motorola has announced it is looking at alternatives to traditional passwords in the form of tattoos, in a bid to make logging into online...
Amstaff Robotic Vehicle To Replace Soldiers Along Israel’s Border
The Israel Defense Force has stopped stationing troops as a security measure at 22 communities along its northern and southern borders. Robotic systems may...
U.S. Company Launches New High-Capacity Robotic Arm
CoroWare Technologies has announced availability for the CoroBot RA-144 robotic arm, a powerful robot arm that complements their CoroBot smart unmanned ground vehicle (Smart...
Day-Zero Attacks Against Microsoft Office Successfully Blocked
Kaspersky Lab’s Automatic Exploit Prevention (AEP) technology successfully blocks attacks via the recently discovered system vulnerability in Microsoft Office software. Microsoft reported knowledge of...
Israel’s AUS&R Unmanned Vehicles Salon Event
"Rishon Lezion joins other cities around the world hosting air salons. We will turn the event on November 26th, the first Israeli unmanned vehicles...
9900: The Israeli Satellite Intelligence Unit
The famous British philosopher and strategist Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, who coined the term “indirect approach strategy”, used to say that “the deepest...
China to Build New National UAV Industrial Hub
China will establish a special industrial base for the development and production of unmanned aerial vehicles in Beijing’s southern Daxing District, reports Chinese-language media...
Israel Hosts Major Cyber-War Simulation
The cyber-simulation was held at the Tel Aviv University's SIMLAB unit. This is the unit's first simulation.
The SIMLAB simulation unit, headed by Dr. Haim...
New Explosives Detector Receives DHS Approval
Implant Sciences Corporation announced that the QS-B220 explosives and drugs trace detector has been issued a SAFETY Act Designation from the Department of Homeland...
New Security Cameras to Detect Violent Motions
A special CCTV camera might know what you are doing, thanks to a monitoring system that can detect aggressive behavior.
According to New Scientist, Kintense,...
New U.S. Awards to Robotics Researchers
Robotic rotorcraft for inspecting bridges and other infrastructures, tools for minimally invasive surgery that guide surgeons by creating 3D maps of internal organs, and...
Stuxnet Virus Detected in Russian Nuclear Facility
Eugene Kaspersky of Kaspersky Antivirus has revealed that a staffer at a Russian nuclear plant informed him that the infection that was introduced to...
The Civilian UAV Market is on the Rise
Venture capitalists like Tim Draper are placing their bets on the commercial applications of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Draper, an early investor in Hotmail,...
New Spy UAV – Too Fast for Radar
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works is proposing a replacement for the SR-71 spy plane The SR-72, is a Mach 6 drone that doesn't need to...
Britain May Hire Hackers For Cyber Defense
Britain may recruit convicted computer hackers to a new military unit dedicated to combating cyber attacks, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said. Hammond announced plans...
Israel’s Unmanned Systems Event: Final Rehearsal
By iHLS NewsDesk
The final rehearsal for the unmanned systems event to be held at the Rishon Lezion YES Planet compound, Israel, on November 26,...
Homeland Security Testing Facial Recognition Accuracy
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has started a program that will test the accuracy of various off-the-shelf facial recognition programs.
Facial recognition has come...
Belarus to Build Aerial Drones in Turkmenistan
The former Soviet states of Turkmenistan and Belarus have agreed on a project to jointly build an aerial drone factory in the energy-rich Central...
TSA to Test New Checkpoint Detector Systems
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has ordered advanced software and hardware for uncovering liquid explosives and other threats.
The systems, which can be retrofitted into...
Norway to Develop Pocket UAV for U.S. Army
U.S. Army researchers are asking a Norwegian company to develop a pocket-sized helicopter drone to provide a personal reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for...
Survey: Most Companies Use In-House Resources for IT Security Training
Kaspersky Lab today reveals that most companies assign their own Tech Support Department to train company employees in matters of IT security, rather than...
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