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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe Army National Guard is ending its sponsorship of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Indy Racing League driver Graham Rahal, the component announced Wednesday.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe body of a two-star general killed in an Afghan 'insider attack' has arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comLong wait times for veterans to get health care can be cleared up in two years, along with investigations of employees accused of falsifying data to hide the problem, Deputy Veterans Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson said Wednesday.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe deadly insider attack that killed an Army major general and wounded more than a dozen other troops Tuesday has led to questions about the way ahead in Afghanistan and the strength of the partnership between coalition and Afghan troops.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe Afghan soldier who killed a U.S. two-star general and wounded other top officers hid in a bathroom before his assault and used a NATO assault rifle in his attack, an Afghan military official said Wednesday.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comCol. Viet Luong pinned on his first star during a ceremony Wednesday at Fort Hood, Texas, becoming the first Vietnamese-born general officer in the U.S. military.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comIraqi militants from the Islamic State group overran a cluster of predominantly Christian villages alongside the country's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, sending tens of thousands of civilians and Kurdish fighters fleeing from the area,...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comSunni militants from the Islamic State group on Thursday seized Iraq's largest dam, placing them in control of enormous power and water resources and access to the river that runs through the heart of Baghdad.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comChung Eun-yong, an ex-policeman whose half-century quest for justice for his two slain children led the U.S. Army in 2001 to acknowledge the Korean War refugee massacre at No Gun Ri, has died, the No Gun Ri International Peace Foundation...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comA full military funeral will be held in Oakland County for a K-9 veteran.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comVeterans are expected to have an easier time getting government-paid health care from local doctors under a bill that President Obama is set to sign into law Thursday.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comTwo tours in Afghanistan took a toll on Joshua Ploetz.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedRussia's "provocative actions" in neighboring Ukraine are prompting NATO to re-examine is relevance, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in Stuttgart, Germany, as the West faces what U.S. officials have described as the worst crisis in re...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedSenior Airman Christopher Moore, who has been a mechanic for the Air Force for three years, has a passion for tinkering with and fixing things.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedThe Defense Department has taken severe budget cuts this fiscal year, but if sequestration returns in fiscal 2016, that will require $50 billion in additional cuts, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in Stuttgart, Germany.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comUSA Discounters knows a lot about the military.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comAuthorities say a Jacksonville Navy commander was killed by his estranged wife, her boyfriend and that man's best friend in an attempt to collect more than $1 million in life insurance money.
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Thursday, August 7, 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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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comThree current Blue Angels pilots are among the commissioned officers who circulated pornographic messages and photographs among themselves and to other members of the elite flight team, according to copies of phone texts that were part o...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from militarytimes.comDepartment of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald is scheduled to visit Phoenix Friday, his first stop at a VA medical center since being nominated and confirmed to the cabinet post last month.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe Army has begun questioning Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl about his disappearance in Afghanistan that led to five years in captivity by the Taliban, his attorney and an Army spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe steadily advancing Ukrainian army is setting its sights on the largest rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine, while Western officials on Wednesday warned that a Russian military buildup on Ukraine's border could herald a major incursion...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comA government contractor that handles hundreds of thousands of security clearance background checks for civilian and military workers says that some workers' personal information was compromised after a recent computer breach.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comOfficials say the body of a two-star general killed in an Afghan 'insider attack' will be flown to the military mortuary at Dover Air Force Base.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comAn active-duty Army officer stricken with terminal cancer is fighting for his life - and the lives of others. Capt. Justin Fitch said he wants to use his last days to reverse the epidemic of veteran suicide.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressSunnyvale CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2014 The fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite in the launch order is progressing in its final testing phase, having successfully cleared acoustic tests. This evaluation used powerful sound waves...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressBrussels (UPI) Aug 5, 2013 NATO says the fuselage of the first Global Hawk Block 40 unmanned aerial vehicle for the alliance has been completed by Northrop Grumman. The fuselage was completed at a company facility in Mississippi and its ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressSydney (AFP) Aug 05, 2014 Australia will toughen laws to target home-grown terrorists and those who fight overseas over fears violent jihadist citizens in Syria and Iraq will return home, officials said Tuesday. Prime Minister Tony Abbot...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressBaghdad (AFP) Aug 04, 2014 Baghdad's air force and Kurdish fighters from Syria joined forces with Iraq's embattled peshmerga Monday to push back jihadists whose latest attacks sent thousands of civilians running for their lives. The Isla...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressAberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. (UPI) Aug 5, 2013 The U.S. Army is looking to reduce the weight of its armored vehicles by 40 percent in years ahead and has reached out to industry and academia for help. According to the Science and Techno...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressBeirut (AFP) Aug 05, 2014 Lebanon's army chief General Jean Kahwaji urged France on Tuesday to speed up the delivery of weapons under a Saudi-financed deal, as his troops battle jihadists on the Syrian border. "This battle requires equip...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressAnkara (AFP) Aug 05, 2014 The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which for years waged a deadly insurgency against Turkish authorities, called on all Kurdish armed groups Tuesday to unite against radical Islamist militants who have...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressBaghdad (AFP) Aug 04, 2014 It was nearly the perfect heist. In June, Iraq's Kurds snuck in behind retreating government troops to grab long-coveted land and watched from their new borders as Baghdad and jihadists fought over the rump sta...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressBeijing (AFP) Aug 05, 2014 China is investigating a Canadian Christian couple for alleged espionage, state media and their son said Tuesday, a week after Ottawa accused Beijing of cyber-spying. Kevin Garratt and Julia Dawn Garratt "are u...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressDohuk, Iraq (AFP) Aug 05, 2014 Iraqi helicopters dropped supplies Tuesday to thousands of people hiding from jihadists in desolate mountains, many of them from the Yazidi minority which officials warned risked being massacred or starved ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Aug 05, 2014 A team of chemical weapons experts will travel to Syria next month to follow up on Damascus' pledge to hand over its arsenal, the British UN envoy said Tuesday. A joint mission from the Or...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressArchbald, Pa. (UPI) Aug 4, 2013 Bombs with Lockheed's enhanced Dual Mode Laser Guided Bombs kit successfully demonstrated their capability in various targeting modes for the U.S. Marine Corps. Lockheed said that during recent USMC weapon...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressLos Angeles (UPI) Aug 5, 2013 An improved Global Positioning System IIF satellite from Boeing has been launched into orbit by the U.S. Air Force, the service reported. The launch was conducted late last week from Cape Canaveral Air Force...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressNewport News, Va. (UPI) Aug 4, 2013 Newport News Shipbuilding is planning its work on defueling the aircraft carrier USS George Washington under a $49.6 million military contract. The USS George Washington (CVN 73) is the sixth Nimitz-cl...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SpaceWar ExpressTokyo (AFP) Aug 05, 2014 Japan warned Tuesday that China's "dangerous acts" over territorial claims in the East China Sea could lead to "unintended consequences" in the region, as fears grow of a potential military clash. The comments ap...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from DefenseStealth rewrites the rules for the aerodynamics team behind the U.K.’s Taranis UCAV Stealth rewrites the rules for the aerodynamics team behind the U.K.’s Taranis UCAV read more
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comSpanish police say they have seized 127 kilograms of cocaine from Spanish navy training ship, which allegedly carried the drug from Colombia and dropped off some in New York.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comSen. John Walsh was taking personal time at his Helena home as his campaign canceled events and avoided questions about whether the Montana Democrat plans to remain in the U.S. Senate race amid allegations that he plagiarized a research ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday rejected suggestions that the military should have greater flexibility to rethink its withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2016 and allow commanders to make some decisions based on the conditions in t...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe first American general officer to be killed by hostile fire in combat since Sept. 11 has been identified as Maj. Gen. Harold Greene.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comLawyers for a Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of orchestrating the deadly bombing of the USS Cole are asking a judge to dismiss six of the 11 counts because of what they call U.S. hypocrisy.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comTwo American aid workers infected with Ebola are getting an experimental drug so novel it has never been tested for safety in humans and was only identified as a potential treatment earlier this year, thanks to a longstanding research pr...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comMore Veterans Administration employees will be disciplined as the department sorts out a scandal over long waits for health care and falsified data, Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson said Tuesday.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comGov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered flags on state government buildings across New York to be flown at half-staff to honor the general from upstate who was killed in Afghanistan Tuesday.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comAn Iraqi army airstrike in the militant-held northern city of Mosul on Wednesday killed 60 fighters from the extremists Islamic State group, Iraq's state television reported.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ThreatpostResearchers at Kaspersky Lab have cracked the means by which the Turla APT campaign compromises its victims, using a precursor called Epic.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Register - SecurityBut he can stay put for another 3 years if he really wants to Russia has given fugitive NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden a three year residency permit after his previous visa expired at the end of July.…
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/6/14 Ebola Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Recent discussions about Ebola have mainly focused on the disease as a public health hazard, but counterterrorism officials are concerned that the new outbre...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/6/14 Ebola Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Austin, Texas-based Luminex Corporation the other day announced that U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID ) Diagnostics Div...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/6/14 Terrorism financing Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments In its early years, al-Qaeda received most of its financing from affluent donors from the Middle East, but counterterrorism officials now belie...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ThreatpostThe line between criminal hacking and well-meaning security research is a thin, hazy one according to a panel discussion at Black Hat.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Register - SecurityTop apps and hardware don't appear overnight Russia and China have both, of late, threatened western IT companies with difficult trading conditions or banishment if they can't prove their products are secure.…
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Register - SecurityShoddy scammer served security smackdown Security researcher Raashid Bhatt has detailed how to bust the security protections of the Zeus banking trojan allowing him to take a webcam photo of the scammer.…
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Register - SecuritySoak those connections, download those patches Get patching, sysadmins, there's a zero-day in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP).…
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Register - SecurityBlinds go up, blinds go down, hotel manager has no why Black Hat 2014 A security consultant staying in the St Regis hotel in the Chinese city of Shenzhen got bored one night and successfully commandeered the controls of 200 rooms thank...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily NewsAt Black Hat 2014, a researcher showed how AWS cloud security flaws and misconfigurations can have devastating consequences for AWS customers that don't take security seriously.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Register - SecurityTurns out IDS is actually useful for something Black Hat 2014 At last year’s Black Hat USA, Charlie Miller, security engineer at Twitter and Apple-cracker extraordinaire, and Chris Valasek, director of security intelligence at IOActive...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Register - SecurityOut-of-date, unsafe ActiveX controls to be blocked starting next week Internet Explorer will soon join its rival browsers by automatically blocking old, insecure add-ons – and it's got its eye set squarely on Java.…
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Register - SecurityDestroy the software industry before it destroys the world, says Dan Geer Black Hat 2014 Computer security luminary Dan Geer has proposed a radical shakeup of the software industry in hope of avoiding total disaster online.…
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from ThreatpostLAS VEGAS–David Litchfield for many years was one of the top bug hunters in the game and specialized in causing large-scale headaches for Oracle. When he decided to retire and go scuba diving, there likely were few tears shed in Re...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: maritime_port_security The Coast Guard is now testing 25 electronic aids to navigation (eATON) to augment existing physical aids and mark unique and potentially hazardous navigation features in the San Fra...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/6/14 Robotics Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Wi-Fi makes all kinds of things possible. We can send and receive messages, make phone calls, browse the Internet, even play games with people who are mil...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have seized more than $500,000 worth of counterfeit merchandise -- in...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: maritime_port_security The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has announced the selection of Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT) and University of Alaska A...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/6/14 Coastal infrastructure Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments North Carolina officials announced last week that the state-appointed science panel supported by the Coastal Resources Commission ( CRC ) ha...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security Boulder, CO-based LogRhythm , a security intelligence company, has released a new analytics suite that monitors honeypots to track would-be attackers, enabling customers to analyze nefarious tact...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security A study by EMA Research found that organizations using security analytics and threat analytics are nearly two times as confident of detecting security issues and 90 percent report reduced false a...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from ThreatpostResearchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek today at Black Hat talked about their research on the remote attack surfaces present in popular automobiles.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily NewsAt Black Hat USA 2014, keynote speaker Dan Geer said bounding system dependencies was only hope for managing the risks of complexity.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security Burlington, MA-based Arbor Networks , a provider of DDoS and advanced threat protection solutions for enterprise and service provider networks, has announced that FishNet Security has become an A...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosFor your listening pleasure! Here's this week's episode of the Sophos Security Chet Chat podcast...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosA team of researchers from MIT, Microsoft and Adobe have figured out how to use sound vibrations in objects that are quivering too imperceptibly for the naked eye to discern, but when captured on video can be used to decipher intelligibl...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/6/14 Coastal infrastructure protection Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments While climate change-related sea level rise is predicted to impact much of the country — whether directly or indirectly ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from ThreatpostLas Vegas - Researchers at the Black Hat security conference claimed in a presentation that they can exploit pervasive carrier controls to wrest complete control of billions of consumer devices.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from ThreatpostLAS VEGAS–Mobile broadband modems can be a great alternative if you can’t find a WiFi network or don’t trust the ones you can find. But many of the models sold by the major manufacturers contain bugs and functionality t...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from The Register - SecurityToolkit Apache Cordova suffers cross-application scripting bug, IBM discovers Hackers can swipe login credentials and other sensitive data from one in 10 Android banking apps, and about six per cent of all Android apps, IBM researchers w...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from ThreatpostDan Geer's Black Hat 2014 keynote featured 10 proposals to address shortcomings in security, in the context of government surveillance and eroding privacy.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedBlack Hat keynote speaker Dan Geer has some radical ideas to reshape modern security, including a suggestion that the United States purchase security vulnerabilities and make them public.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Forbes - SecurityThe circuit board is fast replacing the "slim jim" among clever car thieves to break into late-model vehicles.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismMilitants attack police checkpoint in northern Egypt, killing 5 policemen
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Forbes - SecurityBy Christopher Sherman Corporations spend a lot of time and money to ensure their employee- and customer-facing technologies are compliant with all local and regional data privacy laws. However, this task is made challenging by the patch...
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Wednesday, August 6, 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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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World news: Espionage | theguardian.comJournalist and author famed for exposing spies at the heart of the establishment The journalist Chapman Pincher, who has died aged 100, became famous for his pursuit of traitors and supposed traitors in the British secret service. His mo...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismTreasury sanctions suspected financiers of terrorist groups in Iraq, Syria
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Naked Security - SophosMore than 17,000 people have signed up to a class action lawsuit against Facebook, which alleges that the social network violated its users' privacy.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedWhat does the Library of Sparta have to do with modern IT security? Military strategies are increasingly common in cybersecurity – and with good reason.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RSS for TerrorismDefense lawyers say USS Cole attack mimicked US ruse from WWII: an explosive fishing vessel
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Breaking news on terrorism - breakingnews.comYemeni troops kill 9 suspected al-Qaida militants who tried to ambush troops, according to state media - @ReutersWorld
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Infosecurity - Latest News
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedA Russian gang of fewer than a dozen hackers has collected more than 4.5 billion user records from over 400,000 websites and FTP sites.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from The Register - SecurityPlus: One in four CERT cases relate to malware Security researchers have released a tool that allows victims of the infamous CryptoLocker ransomware to unlock their computers at no charge.…
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsIf we talk about old days, a hacker often rely on the natural helpfulness as well as weaknesses of people whom he wanted to target. This tactic to break into a computer network by gaining the confidence of an authorized user and get them...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily NewsEMET 5.0, the latest version of Microsoft's zero-day prevention tool, includes several new features, most notably improved ways to block plugins like Flash and Java.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Cybersecurity on Huffington Post
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Security News
AMG Systems, the British manufacturer of CCTV transmission technology and sophisticated panoramic megapixel cameras, and Security Supplies Ltd have entered a partnership agreement. The post AMG Partners with Security Supplies Limited app...
