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Friday, August 8, 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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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comPresident Obama says it all the time - no combat troops will return to Iraq.
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Friday, August 8, 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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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comTwo Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on Islamic militants outside the Iraqi city of Irbil on Friday at dawn, a defense official said, marking the latest escalation of an open-ended military and humanitarian ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A federal judge has ruled a $1.8 million defamation damage award to former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is reasonable.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comJamie Livingston joined the Navy in 2000 because she 'wanted to be part of something bigger than myself.'
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comStarting today, some military installations will be able to run FBI background checks on anyone trying to pass through the gates.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressMoscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 08, 2014 North Korea is expanding the operations of the Yongbyon nuclear site, renovating its 5 megawatt-electric (MWe) reactor to make plutonium for nuclear weapons and expanding the centrifuge plant, Institute ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressGroton, Conn. (UPI) Aug 7, 2014 The U.S. Navy's 11th Virginia-class attack submarine has successfully completed its alpha sea trials, shipbuilder General Dynamics Electric Boat reports. The trials, directed by the U.S. Navy, involved tes...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressDonetsk, Ukraine (AFP) Aug 06, 2014 A NATO warning of a Russian troop buildup on the border with Ukraine fueled fears Wednesday of a major incursion, as Kiev stepped up moves to recapture the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, hit for the firs...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Aug 07, 2014 The UN Security Council met Thursday in emergency session to address the crisis sparked by the jihadist offensive in Iraq, with France and the United States weighing action. French Preside...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressZhdanivka, Ukraine (AFP) Aug 07, 2014 A Ukranian fighter jet tumbled to earth in a fireball Thursday after it was blasted out of the air while flying low over rebel-held territory in the east of the country. An AFP crew saw the Sukhoi wa...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressBeijing (AFP) Aug 07, 2014 China is banning users of Internet messaging services from posting political reports without permission, and demanding they promise to "uphold the socialist system", state media said Thursday. China tightly con...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressJerusalem (AFP) Aug 07, 2014 The vast majority of rockets fired by Hamas at Israel over the past month were made in Gaza using civilian materials, a senior Israeli military official said Thursday. The coastal Palestinian enclave was the ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressFrankfurt (AFP) Aug 07, 2014 Rheinmetall, the German maker of auto parts and defence technology, said Thursday it is cutting its full-year targets after the government blocked a major contract with Russia. "Due to the fact that the expor...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressVienna (AFP) Aug 07, 2014 Iran and six world powers will hold a new round of nuclear talks before the UN General Assembly, which starts on September 16, a spokesman for lead negotiator Catherine Ashton said Thursday. "We expect to hold a...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressSan Diego (UPI) Aug 7, 2014 The U.S. Air Force has exercised a contract option with Northrop Grumman for operational support of a battlefield communications system. The system is BACN, or the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, a h...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressSeoul (AFP) Aug 07, 2014 Recent satellite images of North Korea's main nuclear complex suggest continued activity focused on the production of both weapons-grade plutonium and uranium, a US think-tank said Thursday. The June 30 images of...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressBeirut (AFP) Aug 07, 2014 Seven Lebanese soldiers being held by militants in the Arsal region on the Syrian border were freed on Thursday after a truce deal, the official National News Agency said. The NNA said the seven were freed in an...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressKuwait City (AFP) Aug 07, 2014 Kuwait said Thursday it was committed to fighting terrorism and its funding after the United States sanctioned three Kuwaitis accused of providing money, fighters and weapons to extremist groups. "Kuwait is...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressKirkuk, Iraq (AFP) Aug 07, 2014 Jihadists seized much of Iraq's Christian heartland and moved within striking distance of autonomous Kurdistan on Thursday in a push that stirred panic among residents and alarm in Western capitals. Amid r...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressAnkara (AFP) Aug 07, 2014 Up to 800 people from Iraq's Yazidi community have fled across the border to Turkey after escaping a lightning offensive by jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) group, Turkish officials said on Thursday. The Ya...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe US campaign against a militant group that has taken control of huge chunks of Iraq has begun.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comUS Navy and Marine forces already are on station in the Middle East, part of the US policy of keeping a carrier strike group and an amphibious ready group in the region.
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Friday, August 8, 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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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comA solider from Georgia is recovering after he was shot during an insider attack in Afghanistan.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comThursday's White House decision to authorize airstrikes in Iraq was met with support from key defense lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who called it an unsettling but necessary step forward.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comU.S. Sen. John McCain said Friday in Vietnam that it's time for the United States to ease the ban on selling lethal arms to the communist country, saying it has progressed on human rights.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to take the case of a former Fort Campbell soldier sentenced to death for killing three children and attacking a woman in southwestern Kentucky.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comALBANY, New York (AP) - The New York man whose story of finding Adolf Hitler's top hat at the end of World War II was told in a 2003 documentary film has died. Richard Marowitz was 88.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comAfghanistan's feuding presidential candidates agreed Friday to resolve their election dispute and said they would set an inauguration date before the end of August.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Asian Defence NewsA Chinese Hunan Television documentary on PLA Navy, Senior Colonel Chen Qing, program manager of J-15 program, offers rare glimpse into the J-15 production line in Shenyang.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Ministry of Defence - Activity on GOV.UKThe quarterly results of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation ops accommodation customer satisfaction tracker survey.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Ministry of Defence - Activity on GOV.UKThe quarterly results of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation ops accommodation customer satisfaction tracker survey for financial year 2014 to 2015.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Military & DefenseThroughout the rapidly unfolding crisis in Iraq over the past few months, President Barack Obama has repeatedly said it's a problem that has to be solved by Iraq. He has said there is no U.S. military solution that would help the situati...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Military & DefenseOn Thursday, Russia announced a ban on food imports from the U.S.. the European Union, Canada, Australia, and Norway. The list of banned products included cattle meat, pork, fish, milk and dairy products, vegetables, fruit, and nuts. Som...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Ministry of Defence - Activity on GOV.UKService Children's Education recruitment including details about eligibility, teaching pools and additional information about employment in Germany and Cyprus.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from RealClearDefense - HomepageMajor Charles V. Slider III
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowRheinmetall AG of Düsseldorf has won a major service contract from the German Bundeswehr worth around €70 million. Through to 2018, the Group will be responsible for providing contractor support for the complete exercise and tr...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Military & DefenseOn Thursday night, President Barack Obama authorized the use of U.S. military strikes in Iraq , wading the U.S. further into the conflict that has, in recent days, pitted insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) ag...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from RealClearDefense - HomepageJacob Siegel, Daily Beast What had been the U.S. policy—to rely on local forces to contain ISIS while waiting for a new Iraqi government to reach a political solution—is finished. The new policy is still taking shape. It will...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Defence NewsNew Defence Secretary's first trip to Afghanistan
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Daily NewsNATO's secretary-general called on Russia Thursday to "step back from the brink" as concerns mount that Moscow might be preparing to launch an invasion into Ukraine under the guise of a peacekeeping operation.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Daily NewsU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Afghanistan late Thursday on an unannounced visit to press the country's two feuding presidential candidates on the urgency of ending a bitter dispute over June elections and forming a new gover...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Defence NewsSummary The BBC reports that President Obama has approved targeted air strikes against Islamic militants in northern Iraq in an attempt to prevent the slaughter of religious minorities, and that the Prime Minister has welcomed the US's d...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comMontana Democratic Sen. John Walsh announced Thursday that he is dropping his Senate bid after it became clear that he could not overcome the fallout from a plagiarism scandal, the Billings Gazette reported.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Ministry of Defence - Activity on GOV.UKOrganisation chart at August 2014.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comPresident Obama signed the new Veterans Affairs Department reform bill into law Thursday, but it will be a while before veterans see any of its effects.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe Navy and NASA wrapped up the second round of practice recoveries of the Orion spacecraft, which is designed to bring humans to the moon, asteroids and, eventually, to Mars.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from militarytimes.comA recent enlistee in the Missouri National Guard said he felt pressured into taking a camouflage Bible that was available in the waiting room of a military entrance processing station - and a humanist group to which he belongs has threat...
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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 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 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 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 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 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 eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedMore than 2,000 current and former patients may be affected.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsToday Microsoft has released its Advance Notification for the month of August 2014 Patch Tuesday Updates releasing a total of nine security Bulletins, which will address several vulnerabilities in its products, out of which two are marke...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Register - SecurityCrypto tech and license management tech will boost profits, hope firms Security company Gemalto is buying data protection firm SafeNet. The deal, announced Friday, is valued at $890m and is being financed through cash and existing long-t...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/7/14 Terrorism Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments The United States is about to operate militarily in Iraq again. Yesterday, President Obama authorized the U.S. military to attack ISIS targets in Iraq, a...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/7/14 Gaza Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments The fighting between Israel and Hamas resumed after the 72-hour Egypt-sponsored cease-fire collapsed. Hamas has so far fired more than twenty rockets on towns...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/7/14 Ebola Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Nigerian health authorities said yesterday that West African patients infected with the Ebola virus will not have access to experimental drugs being used to ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/7/14 Explosives Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Authorities with the U.S. Special Operations Command ( SOCOM ), the Canadian military, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms ( ATF ), and la...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/7/14 Real ID Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments In 2008, Arizona lawmakers passed a bill ( HB 2677), signed by then-Governor Janet Napolitano, prohibiting the state from complying with the Real ID Act . ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/7/14 Resilience Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments The U.S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) and the Rockefeller Foundation announced the other day a $100 million Global Resilience Partners...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/7/14 Food safety Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments TV shows like “ CSI ” have made forensics a hot topic, spawning books and even science programs for kids. The same technology used at crime scenes to l...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Infosecurity - Latest News
Controversial Operation Torpedo has come to light through released court documents. -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosThe word firewall has a lot more shades of meaning in 2014 than it did in 1994. So...who better to help us to demystify the modern firewall than Sophos security expert Chester Wisniewski?
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from RSS for Terrorism5 Things to Know This Morning
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsToday at Black Hat 2014 hacking conference, Yahoo! Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos announced that the company will start giving its consumers the option of end-to-end encryption in its Mail service by next year. Google sho...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismInsurgent forces have been taking over cities in northern Iraq.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosFoursquare, makers of the popular app that lets you "check in" wherever you go, unveiled a new version this week that tracks your location even when the app is closed, with opt-in as the default. We show you how to opt out if you don't w...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from ComputerWeekly: IT securityGoogle is starting to favour secure websites and is ranking them higher on its search engine
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsTill now, he have heard about “Bitcoin digital wallet hacked” or “Bitcoin website hacked”, but now a hacker has stolen cryptocurrency from mining pools and generated $83,000 in digital cash in more than four months by gaining access to a...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismAP Analysis: Obama puts US military on brink of return to Iraq, the nation he vowed to exit
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Register - SecurityAndroid, BlackBerry, and Apple fall to OMA-DM flaw – claim Black Hat 2014 videos The mechanisms used to update smartphone operating systems over the air are vulnerable to hijacking and abuse, researchers have claimed.…
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > TerrorismHaving shaped the issue in terms of a humanitarian crisis, President Obama made it clear that the United States won’t ignore the growing catastrophe.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismText of President Obama's statement on air strikes, airdrops in Iraq
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Register - SecurityPurple Palace also to loose script autobots to verify bug bounties Yahoo will fire up end-to-end (E2E) encryption for its email users by 2015, chief security officer Alex Stamos announced at Black Hat overnight.…
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismThe US is going back to Iraq to help stranded Kurds against ISIS.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Infosecurity - Latest News
The scanners used by many airports in the United States are riddled with security flaws, a security researcher told attendees at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas Wednesday. -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Forbes - SecurityNumerous media reports over the past couple days have claimed that more than 1.2 billion passwords were stolen by a gang of hackers; some outlets even described this breach as the “largest data breach" ever. As I tweeted yesterday, I am ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismPresident said he'll call in air strikes against ISIS to protect American interests if necessary.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Dark Reading:At Black Hat USA, a researcher who in April revealed weaknesses in popular satellite ground terminal equipment found on air, land and sea, demonstrates possible attack scenarios.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Register - SecurityCute idea but it just won't fly Black Hat 2014 Nervous fliers have one less thing to worry about after it turns out that, despite some alarmist reports, hackers won't be making planes fall out of the sky any time soon.…
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Infosecurity - Latest News
When governments get in the business of writing malware, bad things happen. It's no longer stuff of science-fiction or conspiracy theories, but reality, a security expert said at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: border_security Seven alleged members of a suspected human smuggling criminal network were arrested this week in Quetzaltenango by Guatemalan law enforcement officials with the assistance of U.S. Immigration an...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: border_security The U.S. signed a Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement with Kenya marking a significant milestone in collaboration on security and trade facilitation between the two countries. U.S. Customs and B...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection Image Caption: Mike Hopkins Los Angeles, CA-based Ice Energy , a provider of distributed thermal energy storage technology, has announced Mike Hopkins as president of the company...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismJonathan Karl is at the White House as the president and his security team weigh the risks.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: maritime_port_security The Coast Guard has rescued 27 passengers and crew aboard a disabled vessel in the Piscataqua River, in Portsmouth, NH. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Northern New England recei...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Dark Reading:The Pwnie Awards celebrate the best bug discoveries and worst security fails.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: security_services Indianapolis, IN-based STANLEY Security has announced that Joshua Jackson, director - Global Product Integration, has been elected as vice chairman of the Physical Security Interoperability Al...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Register - SecurityWow. Such hack. Very router. So BGP. Wow. Researchers at Dell's SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have identified an exploit that can be used to steal cryptocurrency from mining pools – and they claim that at least one unknown miscre...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ThreatpostDennis Fisher, Mike Mimoso and Brian Donohue discuss the news from day one of Black Hat, including the Dan Geer keynote, attacks on mobile broadband modems and carriers’ control of mobile phones.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from World news: CIA | theguardian.comExecutive editor Dean Baquet published a statement on Thursday announcing the change in style Under pressure from reporters and editors, the New York Times leadership has decided to use the word torture with regard to the CIAs treatment ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ThreatpostLAS VEGAS - It's widely known that embedded medical devices are hackable in dangerous ways, but the true risks to medical device are less well known.
