Hacking U.S. Secrets, China Pushes for Drones
For almost two years, hackers based in Shanghai went after one foreign defense contractor after another, totalling at least 20 in all. Their target,...
Biometric Technology Takes Off
The use of biological markers like fingerprints, faces and irises to identify people is rapidly moving from science fiction to reality. Apple’s latest iPhone,...
INSS Global Cyber Review – September 15th
Israel
Israel: Anonymous planned new cyber-attacks on Israel web sites
AnonGhost, an affiliate group of the Anonymous hacker organization, was threatening Israel by planning new cyber-attacks...
More equitable access to DNA identification after disaster or conflict needed
The April 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza Factory Building in Bangladesh, in which more than 1,130 people were killed, is only the latest...
Cyberweapons likely to be big part of any U.S. – Syria...
A U.S. led military attack on Syria may have been averted, at least for a while, by the Russian proposal to negotiate the transfer...
Can you crack GCHQ’s cyber code?
GCHQ, Britain’s intelligence agency based in Cheltenham, has launched a new recruitment drive aimed at finding the brightest minds in the land. Candidates are...
Mega Airship Back in the Air in California
Two days after receiving experimental airworthiness certification from the Federal Aviation Administration Aeros Corp. began flight-testing the Aeroscraft airship. For safety, the current flights...
Temptation to let computers do it all, sans human element, can...
Big Data does not necessarily mean Good Data. And that, as an increasing number of experts are saying more insistently, means Big Data does...
UAVs in the service of Homeland Security
By David Behr
Armies all over the world have been using UAVs for decades. The U.S. Army leads the way with their use in Iraq...
Unmanned naval vehicle development: A growing trend
By iHLS NewsDesk
A few countries, including Israel, are focusing more and more on the development of autonomous, unmanned surface and underwater vehicles – meant...
Drones hit European skies
Early next year Europe could see certified professional usage drones from LiveU and its partner Virtual Robotix hitting the skies for sports, news and...
U.S Navy autonomous aerial refueling tests underway
The Navy continues to demonstrate multiple technologies that promise to significantly increase the endurance and range of carrier-based unmanned aircraft.
As part of the Unmanned...
Backdoor Plots: The Darknet as a Field for Terrorism
By Yotam Rosner, Aviad Mendelbaum, Sean London, and Yoram Schweitzer
On Friday, August 2, 2013, the US State Department published a travel warning, and in...
NSA masqueraded as Google to spy on web users
The NSA used ‘man in the middle’ hack attacks to impersonate Google and fool web users, leaks have revealed. The technique circumvents encryption by...
U.K. Launches UAS Testing Center
A private initiative to supply a test, evaluation, demonstration and experimentation facility for beyond-line-of-sight (BLoS) unmanned air systems (UAS) operations in the U.K. took...
U.S. Company to Design Network Infrastructure for NATO Headquarters
Lockheed Martin has been selected to design the Active Network Infrastructure (ANWI) for NATO’s new headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. This contract, worth more than...
NSA Allegedly Spies On International Credit Card Transactions
Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper –joining the NSA revelations train – reported that the intelligence agency is interested in international credit card transactions and may...
Only 1 in 8 companies implement information security policies for mobile...
Almost half of all the organizations taking part in the survey have no policy at all, and only 14% fully implement information security policies...
More delays for Turkish UAS
Turkey was a potential customer for advanced Israeli unmanned systems (UAS). But then came the rift in the two countries’ relations. Since then the...
Signs of Shift to Intel-Driven Cyber Defense
The first two minutes of a cyberattack are crucial - that's when the attacker sets up camp and downloads additional malware to dig in...
Politics stop Israeli-made UAS from serving European armies
Only political considerations, are preventing Germany and France from buying medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned air systems (UAS) from Israel.
A European source told iHLS that...
Face Recognition to be Action Tested in the U.S.
Face recognition technology that eventually could be used to identify criminals and terrorists will be tested Sept. 21 at the Toyota Center arena when...
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This Laser-Powered Tech Could Help Build Smarter 6G Networks
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