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Friday, August 1, 2014 from militarytimes.comMedal of Honor recipient and prisoner-of-war Army Sgt. Maj. Jon Robert Cavaiani has died at age 70 after a battle with cancer, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from militarytimes.comU.S. Central Command is disputing reports in Russian and Uzbek media that the U.S. government is negotiating to open a military base in Uzbekistan.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from militarytimes.comMore than eight years ago, then-Pfc. Justin Watt reported members of his platoon who he believed had participated in the 2006 rape and murder of a teenage Iraqi girl in Yusufiyah and the killing of her family.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from militarytimes.comA German Army brigadier general who recently served with NATO forces in Afghanistan is assuming duties as the chief of staff of U. S. Army Europe, the first time a non-American officer has held that position.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe Senate overwhelmingly gave final approval to a $16.3 billion Veterans Affairs reform bill on Thursday night, sending the measure to the White House and giving Congress a legislative victory before the start of its summer break.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comIsrael and Hamas have agreed to a 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire beginning Friday, during which time there will be negotiations on a more durable truce in the 24-day-old Gaza war, the United States and United Nations announced Thursday.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comLawmakers are stepping up pressure on the Pentagon to improve the paycheck allotment system that allows service members to direct portions of their biweekly pay to certain people or institutions.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comA popular health care program that serves more than 130,000 military family members and retirees is redundant and should be eliminated, the Government Accountability Office says.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comMichelle Obama said the statistic that the U.S. has more than 58,000 homeless veterans is 'a stain on the soul of this nation,' as the federal government expands its initiative to provide stable and affordable housing for service members.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe State Department has endorsed the broad conclusions of a harshly critical Senate report on the CIA's interrogation and detention practices after the 9/11 attacks, a report that accuses the agency of brutally treating terror suspects ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comA World War I gas mask stolen from the Wyoming Capitol and missing for almost a century is on display in Cheyenne again after a South Dakota pawn shop donated it back to the state.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comEight of the nine Americans who were murdered by an Afghan colonel in 2011 never had a chance to fire back at their attacker, the final investigation into the incident concluded.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comInvestigators are looking into whether the boy found dead Sunday in a C-130J wheel well was seen earlier trying to reach aircraft at an airfield in Bamako, Mali, said Eberhard Bayer, a spokesman for the German prosecutor's office.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe House overwhelmingly approved a landmark bill Wednesday to help veterans avoid long waits for health care that have plagued the Veterans Affairs Department for years.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comInvestigation reveals new details of a frantic manhunt.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comVeterans wait months longer than necessary to have their veterans disability benefits processed because of delays in how military officials handle service medical records, according to an audit released Thursday by the Defense Department...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comArmy Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was released in a prisoner swap with the Taliban two months ago, will meet next week with the senior Army officer investigating the circumstances of his capture in Afghanistan, his lawyer said Wednesday.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comDespite ongoing restrictions on the fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, the Air Force's top general warned against being 'alarmist' when discussing the fifth-generation jet's engine.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comThey've done extraordinary things in service to their country. But on Wednesday, a soldier, sailor, airman, Marine and Coast Guardsman were recognized for more than their military exploits.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comSeveral new Veterans Affairs medical facilities would be opened if a House-Senate compromise bill designed to shorten delays in treating veterans becomes law.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comCIA Director John Brennan apologized to Senate intelligence committee leaders after his inspector general found that CIA employees acted improperly when the CIA searched Senate computers earlier this year.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comDemocratic senators joined their Republican colleagues Wednesday in calling for some U.S. military aid to Ukraine after receiving a closed-door briefing from senior Obama administration officials.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe Air Force's top civilian and uniformed leaders said Wednesday the failure to prevent a teenager from stowing away aboard a military cargo plane, apparently while on an airfield in the African nation of Mali, was a serious security la...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comFayetteville police say a man dressed in a military uniform was shot and killed in the parking lot of a local apartment complex.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedOfficials at the Mail Recovery Center in Atlanta hope to assist service members in recovering their lost items and offer tips to prevent misplacement or delays.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedNavy Petty Officer 1st Class James Stilipec shared his story of how personnel at the Mail Recovery Center in Atlanta assisted him in finding a box he had mailed while he was serving in Afghanistan.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedMarine Corps Sgt. Levi J. Slife's skill as a conversationalist helps him in his job as a joint terminal attack controller.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedCreating better education standards is key to preparing military children for college and future careers, the U.S. government's top education official and the National Guard Bureau's chief said.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedAugust is National Immunization Awareness Month, and while vaccines are important for people of all ages, they're vital to the Defense Department's fighting force.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedThe head of U.S. Special Operations Command has credited groups providing support to military families for the success of thousands of young adults who go on to choose a military career.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comHouse and Senate negotiators have approved a $17 billion compromise bill to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs and reform a program scandalized by veterans' long waits for health care and VA workers falsifying records to cover u...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe U.S. Army War College will have the final say over whether any punishment is warranted in a plagiarism investigation against Sen. John Walsh of Montana.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comFormer Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura got the legal vindication he craved when a jury agreed he had been defamed in slain military sniper Chris Kyle's autobiography.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comInternal VA documents show the depth of fraudulent scheduling, manipulation of data and in some cases intimidation of staff to hide delays in medical care to veterans in the 6-million patient national system.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comHouse Armed Services Committee members voted Tuesday to condemn President Obama for failing to consult with congressional leaders before swapping five Taliban prisoners for prisoner of war Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe Pentagon has lifted some flight restrictions on F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, while inspections will continue for the foreseeable future, according to a Defense Department official.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comUniversity of Texas System regents on Tuesday selected one of the top U.S. military special operations leaders as the lone finalist for the job of chancellor, overseeing the system's 15 campuses and $14 billion budget.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe head of the Pentagon's Pacific Command said Tuesday that it's 'a little odd' the Chinese government has sent a spy ship to trail the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise currently taking place off the coast of Hawaii - an exercise in...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comTwo advocacy groups are suing the Veterans Affairs Department for what they say are the department's discriminatory practices regarding compensation claims related to service-connected sexual assault.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comRacing against time, members of a Japanese organization are combing a New York military museum's World War II records for information they hope will lead to the graves of American servicemen still listed as missing in action on Saipan.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comSen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., introduced legislation on Wednesday that would require Tricare to provide birth control free-of-charge to beneficiaries at retail pharmacies and by mail.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comActive-duty women face immense obstacles in accessing sufficient reproductive and sexual health care in the military health system, according to a new report by a Washington, D.C., think tank.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comPaul Lewis arrived as a Marine Corps security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 3, 1979.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe Department of Veterans Affairs says six employees at a clinic in Fort Collins and the VA Medical Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, should be disciplined for manipulating data about veteran care.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comWith a new Veterans Affairs secretary in place and an August recess looming, Congress is likely to move quickly to approve a compromise bill to refurbish the VA and improve veterans' health care.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe body of an unidentified male between 15 and 20 years old was found in the wheel well of an 86th Airlift Wing C-130 on Sunday after the plane returned to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, from missions in Africa, officials said.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from militarytimes.comJapan has been practicing storming beaches with the U.S. and other countries in Hawaii this month.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressWashington (AFP) July 29, 2014 The United States has found that Russia violated a 1987 arms control treaty by testing a ground-launched cruise missile, a senior US official said late Monday, calling the matter "very serious." The announc...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressWashington (AFP) July 29, 2014 US officials pledged Tuesday that any deal struck with Iran would include a strict monitoring regime to thwart any bid by Iranian leaders to covertly try to develop nuclear weapons. But top US negotiator We...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressKiev (AFP) July 29, 2014 When Ukraine's military offensive to oust pro-Russian rebels from the restive east began in mid-April with humiliated soldiers meekly surrendering their armoured vehicles it looked doomed to failure. But after mo...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection The House has passed three bills that aim to protect critical infrastructure from cyber attack through the distribution of cyber threat information, the development and procurement of ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed a new federal motor vehicle safety standard to protect motorcoach and other ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection Ocean acidification is driving changes in waters vital to Alaska’s valuable commercial fisheries and subsistence way of life, according to new NOAA-led research published online &...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosA 41-year-old resident of Houston, Texas has been arrested after Google tipped off police that they had spotted child abuse images in his emails.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire7/31/14 Container screening Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments DHS has delayed until 2016 the implementation of key sections of the SAFE Port Act of 2006 , which requires that 100 percent of U.S.-bound oce...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security Houston-based Behavioral Recognition Systems (BRS Labs), creator of AISight, the artificial intelligence analytics solution that teaches itself to recognize and alert on unexpected patterns withi...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire7/31/14 Chemical plant safety Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments A yearlong investigation commissioned by Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) suggests that DHS is underestimating the threat of a chemical attac...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security Portland, OR-based Tripwire , a provider of advanced threat, security and compliance solutions, has announced the combined results of a 2014 retail cybersecurity survey conducted by Dimensional a...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Register - SecurityThey're not your emails, they're Redmond's business records, says Uncle Sam Microsoft has lost the first round in its fight to prevent US authorities from seizing customer data stored in its overseas data centers.…
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Register - SecurityWe're still a safe bet, say bookies Irish bookmakers Paddy Power has admitted miscreants copied from its systems more than 649,000 customer records containing personal information.…
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: airport_aviation_security Airlines for America (A4A), an industry trade organization for U.S. airlines, and the International Air Transport Association, an international industry trade association representing ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from ThreatpostA new breed of point-of-sale malware has been found in several recent attacks, and experts say that the tool, known as Backoff, has extensive data stealing and exfiltration capabilities, including keylogging, memory scraping and injectio...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from ThreatpostMicrosoft announced that the latest version of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, EMET 5.0, was released to general availability today.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Cybersecurity on Huffington Post
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from ThreatpostA new variant of the GameOver Zeus malware has been spotted with a new domain generation algorithm that now generates 1,000 new domains daily.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosThe Canadian government has accused China of being behind a "cyber intrusion" at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), the country's main science and technology research body. Few details of the intrusion have emerged so far, an...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from ComputerWeekly: IT securityGambling firm Paddy Power owns up to 2010 data breach after recovering a compromised dataset in Canada
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed'Users who operated or accessed hidden services from early February through July 4 should assume they were affected,' says the project's co-founder.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Register - SecurityFrom UFO coverup to SEO bigging-up Former hacker and US extradition target Gary McKinnon has found a new career as a search engine optimisation expert.…
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosIf it emerges unscathed from the chamber, it could mean an end to bulk metadata collection, an end to the secrecy the government's been operating under, and reform of the USA Patriot Act that's been used to grant it vast surveillance rig...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from ThreatpostA new analysis of a long-term APT campaign targeting manufacturers, industrial, pharmaceutical, construction and IT companies in several countries has uncovered fresh details of the attack, including identification of nearly 3,000 victim...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedFile sharing and sync (FSS) services like Dropbox can expose sensitive corporate data. Luckily, there are enterprise-grade FSS alternatives.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosSeems that a rogue Android app can get more privileges than it deserves simply by saying that someone trustworthy has vouched for it. It's been dubbed the "FakeID" hole...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire7/30/14 Immigration Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Due to the highly publicized mass immigration of Central American children into the United States — roughly 57,000 over a little under a year &#...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire7/30/14 Infrastructure protection Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Scientists predict the probability of a massive solar storm striking the Earth in the next decade to be 12 percent. The 23 July 2012 sol...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire7/30/14 Ebola outbreak Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Togo-based, pan-African airline ASKY has suspended all flights to and from the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone, and growing fears of the rapid...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire7/30/14 Border security Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Various solutions to the two and one-half year surge at the border by unaccompanied children from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador have been p...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire7/30/14 DHS grants Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments An audit by the DHS inspector general’s office found that Alabama’s Homeland Security program has not met the conditions of receiving DHS g...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire7/30/14 Nuclear processing Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Federal legislators have secured the funds to keep the mixed-oxide fuel plant ( MOX ) at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina moving forwa...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire7/30/14 Food safety Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Infections caused by foodborne microorganisms are an increasing public health burden. In a Ph.D. project at the National Food Institute, Technical Uni...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire7/30/14 STEM education Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments A new study has identified two factors that characterize sustainable university and college programs designed to increase the production of highly ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsPretty good news for privacy-oriented people! BitTorrent unwraps its new instant messaging program that doesn’t store your metadata and helps you with encrypted communication to keep your online conversations private, whether its voice o...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from ComputerWeekly: IT securityGovernance is undoubtedly an important subject for any organisation, but what does it really involve?
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Infosecurity - Latest NewsThird-party markets in Asia are the main culprits.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosDedicated IT staff are a luxury most very small businesses do without but those organisations still need to find a way to secure their computers against cyber ciminals who aren't looking to cut them a break just because they're small.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Infosecurity - Latest NewsCirrus Communications had half of its network taken down by attack earlier this week.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from ComputerWeekly: IT securityCoinTerra, the firm that provides the hardware and software that power the bitcoin blockchain ecosystem, signs a multi-megawatt datacentre deal
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Register - SecurityShoots down aptitude of badness-slingers Researchers at Toronto-based Citizen Lab have shot down denials by Syria, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates regarding attacks against activists, journalists and dissidents, labelling some of th...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Infosecurity - Latest NewsTG-3279 group wants to play games for free or re-use source code in competing products, says Dell
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Register - SecurityCome back, freetards Security software firm AVG net income has fallen from $24.7m in Q2 2013 to $13.7mn in Q2 2014, according to financial results out Wednesday.…
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Register - SecurityJust slip it in, won't hurt a bit, 1Password makers urge devs AgileBits wants more apps to use 1Password's strong passwords, and has released an extension on github to that end.…
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsEarlier this month, the founder of the Social Networking giant highlighted the future of universal Internet access, the dream that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to fulfil, in an effort to make Internet access available to everyo...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from National Cybersecurity Institute
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsJust few days after the announcement that Russian government will pay almost 4 million ruble (approximately equal to $111,000) to the one who can devise a reliable technology to decrypt data sent over the Tor, now the government wants so...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Register - SecurityAnd they'd get away with it too, if weren't for that meddling Snowden Russia has asked SAP and Apple to hand over their products' source code so it can be tested for spyware.…
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Register - SecurityVoice and text snuck onto freedom-loving nodes BitTorrent has joined the increasingly crowded post-Snowden market for anonymous online chat services with "Bleep", a decentralised voice and text communications platform.…
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Register - SecurityBlack Hat research says proposed protocol will bork network probes, flummox firewalls The burgeoning Multipath TCP (MPTCP) standard promises to speed up the internet but will also break security solutions including intrusion detection an...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Government Security NewsJohn Wagley Top Priority Sector: federal_agencies_legislative A new bill has been introduced by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) that aims to reduce U.S. government over-classification in order to improve infor...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has awarded $1.48 million in grants to help five states improve bridge construction and repair using cutting-edge technologies. The ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosThe UK city of York is planning to roll out citywide free Wi-Fi. Correction: it's only "free" if you don't count the privacy you stand to lose.
