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Monday, August 11, 2014 from DefenseDeployment of autonomous capabilities across aerospace faces major hurdle Deployment of autonomous capabilities across aerospace faces major hurdle read more
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comAs the U.S. continued airstrikes against the Islamic State in northern Iraq, retired Army Gen. Carter Ham said it looks as though the strikes are having an impact.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comIsrael and the Hamas militant group accepted an Egyptian cease-fire proposal Sunday, clearing the way for the resumption of talks on a long-term truce to end a month of heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip that has taken nearly 2,000 lives.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comAs fifth-generation fighters outgrow the Air Force's premiere combat training exercise, the service should look to virtual training for pilots to test the limits of the F-22 and F-35, the outgoing head of Air Combat Command said.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comIn making the case for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, President Obama is drawing on the doctrine involving the use of American force that he outlined less than three months ago, when it seemed he was trying to avoid potential U.S. military act...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comVeterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald addressed a veterans group for the first time since taking over the troubled agency last month, calling his plans to fix it 'an opportunity we can't miss nor underestimate.'
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comIslamic militants' growing influence in Iraq and Syria is a threat to Americans, lawmakers from both political parties agreed Sunday even as they sharply split on what role the United States should play in trying to crush them.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comFahim Fazli's screen career was beginning to take off, with roles in blockbusters like '
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comPresident Obama says it all the time - no combat troops will return to Iraq.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comA dubious threat to U.S. interests. A swift vote in Congress for broad presidential war powers in response. A long, costly and bitterly debated war.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Military & DefenseThroughout Israel’s military operation in Gaza, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan appeared committed to outdoing himself in his hyperbolic criticism of Israel. A series of references to Israel massacring the population of Gaza culmin...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Think Defence
Courtesy of World Maritime News, a story of tall ships, intrigue, stormy seas and 127 Kilograms of Colombian marching powder. Click to read The post A Most Emblematic Vessel appeared first on Think Defence . -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comA retired master sergeant who spent more than 15 years in the U.S. Army Band filed a complaint in U.S. Federal Claims Court on Aug. 1, which states that he was
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comA Washington-based sailor who made an attempt at the Guinness World Record for pullups ended up in the hospital recently, but he said he plans to make another go at it in the near future.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comRussian state news agencies say the country's navy claims to have driven away a submarine believed to be American that entered Russia's northern waters.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Military & DefenseU.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) states that "U.S. military forces continued to attack ISIL terrorists in Iraq today, successfully conducting multiple airstrikes." The U.S. has been bombing ISIS positions that threaten the Iraqi Kurd...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Military & DefenseIn honor of World War I's centennial this year, The Open University has "colorized" a sample of select photos from the conflict with the help of a photograph restoration expert. The photos, which were originally in black and ...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Military & DefenseThe Islamic State is an increasingly menacing threat to the Middle East, and the extremist group uses brutal tactics and propaganda to instill fear in its enemies. And now the group has threatened to raise its flag over the White House, ...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Military & DefenseThe Islamic State, or ISIS, has been taking swaths of territory in northern Iraq and Syria in recent weeks. Between taking the city of Mosul, targeting the Yazidis (an ethno-religious minority in Iraq), and battling the Kurdish peshmerga...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Asian Defence News
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Military & DefenseFormer Vice President Dick Cheney lashed out again at President Barack Obama on Sunday, repeatedly accusing him of projecting "weakness" abroad and "crippling" the U.S. military. The frequent Obama critic told radio show host and GOP meg...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Military & DefenseDuring the Vietnam War, the U.S. military sprayed approximately 20 million gallons of herbicides across 5.5 million acres of Vietnamese jungle and countryside, an area roughly the size of New Jersey, according to The New York Times. U.S....
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Military & DefenseROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis said that violence and destruction in Iraq offends God and humanity and he held a silent prayer for victims of the conflict during his weekly address in Rome on Sunday. "We are left ...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Military & Defense"War encapsulates the whole range of human experience. That’s what is so seductive about it. It makes you feel alive," says photographer Peter Van Agtmael . Van Agtmael was fascinated by war since a young age. After the terror...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comVeterans Affairs Department officials will open their scheduling books to outside reviewers in an effort to get an independent assessment of how to fix medical center wait time problems, VA Secretary Bob McDonald said Friday.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe U.S. has a massive force of ships and aircraft in the Persian Gulf for the air campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comU.S. warplanes made a second wave of airstrikes Friday in northern Iraq against the militants who have besieged a religious group and threatened the city of Irbil, a Pentagon official said.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe United States is warning Russia that any further intervention in Ukraine would be viewed as 'an invasion of Ukraine.'
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from militarytimes.comCOMBAT FOOTAGE: Below are four videos posted to YouTube.com since Friday by U.S. Central Command. The first two of the videos show F/A-18 Hornet airstrikes in Iraq; the second two show humanitarian airdrops.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Military & DefenseKIEV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian military spokesman on Sunday dismissed a call for a ceasefire by a separatist leader, saying this could only take place once rebels had shown "white flags" and surrendered. Meanwhile the separatists stepped b...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Defence News and UK Military NewsA female Army officer who was used to to publicise the Government's reservist campaign has quit her command job saying she cannot juggle it with her new civilian job
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Military & Defense“When you get farmers, dentists and folks who have never fought before going up against a ruthless opposition in Assad, the notion that they were in a position to suddenly overturn not only Assad but also ruthless, highly trained jihadis...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Asian Defence News
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Military & DefensePatrick Cockburn at the London Review of Books has a great essay on the rise of ISIS (or The Islamic State) the radical sunni jihadist group that's taking huge swaths of Syria and Iraq. This one paragraph reveals the incredible scope of ...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Daily NewsA suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy moving through Afghanistan's capital Sunday.,A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy moving through Afghanistan's capital Sunday, killing at least four civilians and wounding more than 35 i...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from RIA NovostiFrance's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called on all Iraqi communities to form a unity government to resist the advancing Islamic State militants, Reuters reported on Sunday.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Asian Defence News
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from World Defence NewsThe BMD-4M is the latest generation of Russian-made airborne armoured infantry fighting vehicle that can be para-dropped to provide firepower and support for airborne troops. It is an upgraded variant of the BMD-4 (BMD-3M). In December 2...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Think DefenceA short video from the RAF of the C130 air drops over Iraq The post RAF Air Drop – Iraq appeared first on Think Defence .
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from World Defence NewsIn 2016, the Russian military will start deploying the new long-range surface-to-air missile systems S-500, chief of the Russian Air Forces said. Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev gave an outline of his branch's modernization plans, inc...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from World Defence NewsThe Russian Army has taken delivery of the first btach of new modernised BMD-4M airborne armoured fighting vehicle. Eight vehicles were handed to the manufacturer Kurganmashzavod and delivered to the 106th Guards Airborne Assault Divisio...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Asian Defence News
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from RealClearDefense - HomepageTimperlake & Laird, Second Line of Defense
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from RealClearDefense - HomepageZachary Keck, The Diplomat
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from RealClearDefense - HomepageTorie Rose Deghett, The Atlantic
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Asian Defence NewsUSS George H.W. Bush and its Super Hornet fighters strike in Iraq Photo: US navy Artillery destroyed Vehicles and mortar position hit:
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Military | The GuardianUS president admits there is no quick fix as minorities flee Islamist onslaught and British planes join relief effort Barack Obama has committed the US to long-term involvement in Iraq, warning that the rapidly evolving crisis in the nor...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from StrategyPage.com
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from StrategyPage.com
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from StrategyPage.com
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from The Register - Security12-year-old spoofs system to try and get Justin Bieber shot Defcon 22 The US emergency response system is in urgent need of better security as it’s surprisingly easy to disable or spoof 911 calls.…
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from The Register - SecurityCommercial aircraft are safe, for the time being Defcon 22 Two seasoned pilots, one of whom is a published hacking expert, have been puncturing some of the myths about aircraft hacking at Defcon 22.…
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection The Department of Transportation (DoT) Secretary Anthony Foxx announced the relief of $333.9 million in emergency funds from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to assist 21 stat...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced that Hyundai has agreed to pay a $17.35 million civil penalty and comply wi...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: border_security U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists at the port of Baltimore have discovered that a shipment of rice from Pakistan was infested with Khapra Beetle larvae. The C...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: access_control_identification Image Caption: William Roof Port Townsend, WA-based Intellicheck Mobilisa , a provider of identity solutions and wireless security systems, has appointed William H. Roof, Ph....
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security Oakdale, MN-based Imation Corp , a global data storage and information security company, has announced that its IronKey Secure USB devices are not vulnerable to BadUSB malware that was revealed a...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Dallas, TX-based CyrusOne has announced that it plans to house the infrastructure and 911-dispatch center for Carrollton, Coppell, Farmers Branch, and Addison, TX. The communiti...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from NYT > TerrorismPresident Obama sought to prepare Americans for an extended presence in the skies over Iraq, telling reporters that the airstrikes he ordered this week, and which continued on Saturday, could go on for months.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismObama calls mission in Iraq a "long-term project."
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismPresident Obama calls mission in Iraq a "long-term project" offering no time limit on military action.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosMalware, spam and hacking - and not all bad news, either! Watch 60 Second Security for Aug 9, 2014...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Dark Reading:Hundreds of thousands of road traffic sensor and repeater equipment at risk of attack, researcher says.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsYahoo-owned Flickr, one of the biggest online photo management and sharing website in the world was recently impacted by a web application vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to modify users’ profile image. Flickr is one of the ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismUS Strikes ISIS Mortars, Artillery and a Convoy in Iraq
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Hack Read
NSA Proof security software assures data encryption making hacking impossible without passwords. An advanced keyless security system has been introduced, which does not involve creation of databases and also doesn’t store passwords. This... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismSays Iraqi government could help calm uprising by better embracing minority interests.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsScammers have again targeted more than one billion active users of the popular social networking giant Facebook, to infect as many victims as possible. This time, an old Facebook scam is back in action once again! Malicious Facebook "Col...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismAs US bombs fall again over Iraq , old emotions about the war resurface across America
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismUS airlifts more aid to stranded Iraqis as airstrikes help Kurds combat militant advance
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismVideo shows the impact of the strikes aimed at preventing the violent group's advances.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismEgypt court dissolves Muslim Brotherhood's political party
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsOracle’s newly launched Data Redaction security feature in Oracle Database 12c can be easily disrupted by an attacker without any need to use exploit code, a security researcher long known as a thorn in Oracle's side said at Defcon. Data...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismObama: US can't intervene in every crisis, but cannot look away when innocents face massacre
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosThe Black Hat USA 2014 conference is over, and Naked Security's Chester Wisniewski was there in fabulous Las Vegas to take it all in. And, as we all know, what happens in Vegas... ...gets faithfully reported on the internet!
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Register - SecurityWe’ve been here before when we defeated slavery and the absolute monarchy Defcon 22 A killer combination of rapidly advancing technology and a desire for greater privacy among the public should condemn current surveillance state to an ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismKurdish fighters, routed by better-armed extremists, may get US weapons after years of pleas
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > TerrorismAl Qaeda militants killed 15 soldiers in southern Yemen after seizing them from a public bus on Friday, military officials and witnesses said, in what appeared to be retaliation for an army offensive.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Dark Reading:An open letter sent to automobile manufacturer CEOs asks carmakers to adopt a proposed 5-star cyber safety program.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Forbes - SecurityWinning the Lottery Means Taxes, But Losing Tickets Can Be Worth Deducting. Plus, Getting Someone To Collect Your Winnings Might Save You Taxes--Or Land You In Jail.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Register - SecurityInventor says, despite it all, he’s still not a cat person Defcon 22 An inventive security researcher has successfully tested a war-driving kitty collar – so its wearer can prowl around the neighborhood exposing the lamentable state of...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Breaking news on terrorism - breakingnews.comState Department issues travel warning 'against all but essential travel to Iraq;' Americans at high risk for kidnapping and terrorist violence - @markknoller
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Hack Read
Homeland Security’s main contractor in trouble- Crucial personal information likely stolen in a Cyber-attack Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s key contractors states that due to a “state-sponsored” cyber-attack personal infor... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Forbes - SecurityAltruistic hackers urge car makers to start taking digital threats to vehicle security seriously, as Def Con and Black Hat attendees learn more about the potential for attacks on autos.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily NewsAt Black Hat 2014, Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos decried enterprise security companies' inability to handle scale and system diversity, and called on vendors to seize the opportunity for innovation.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Register - SecurityMicrosoft should school Ellison on safeguarding privates, says infosec bod Defcon 22 Oracle’s much-ballyhooed data redaction feature in Database 12c is easy to subvert without needing to use exploit code, attendees at Defcon 22 in Las ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Breaking news on terrorism - breakingnews.comSen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Iraq: 'I strongly support the president's authorization for airstrikes against [Islamic State]. This is not a typical terrorist organization - it is a terrorist army, operating with military expertise,...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily NewsA Black Hat 2014 panel featuring computer crime legal specialists Marcia Hofmann and Kevin Bankston found much for researchers to fear regarding cybercrime laws.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from News BlogOur ongoing series examines the FBI’s role in the case of the notorious Jeffrey Dahmer.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Infosecurity - Latest News
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily NewsNews roundup: When a breach occurs, it's common practice to share the information with victims -- both the users and the companies involved. However, Hold Security's billion-password hack disclosure hasn't followed standard procedure.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Register - SecuritySignature-sniffers WILL be fooled – researcher Common or garden cybercrooks have taken to using steganography – the art of hiding secret information within another image or message file – to run a click-fraud scam.…
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from ThreatpostPodcasting day two of Black Hat, including a CryptoLocker working group, a medical device roundtable and overview of the various security and privacy improvements at Yahoo.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from ThreatpostMicrosoft announced that it will block older ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer, starting with Java.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedSecurity vendors focus on banks not Web-scale companies, says Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Infosecurity - Latest News
While it's true that medical devices are vulnerable and can be tampered with, these attacks are still in the realm of unlikelyhood. -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosInternet Explorer (IE) will finally catch up with rival browsers next week when it begins blocking out-of-date ActiveX controls.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Dark Reading:Yes, the ever-expanding attack surface of the Internet of Things is overwhelming. But next-gen security leaders gathered at Black Hat are up to the challenge.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedMore than 2,000 current and former patients may be affected.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Terrorism on Huffington Post
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