- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Ottawa Citizen » Defence Watch
Boeing is developing a kit to upgrade existing Harpoon Block II missiles for extended range, in the hope of attracting interest from the US Navy’s new frigate program, writes Janes defence magazine. More from Janes: Called Harpoon ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from DefenseHere are some photos that Aviation Week's Dan Katz took on the floor of the annual Navy League Conference. Interstitial Ads Frequency: -1 read more
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Military NewsBy Brett Gillin Ahmed Gul was a 46 year old Colonel with the Afghan Air Force when, on April 27, 2011, he murdered eight US Air Force personnel and a civilian contractor inside the Afghan Air Force headquarters. To date, at least three o...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Military | The GuardianParty’s defence spokesman, Vernon Coaker, says he is being realistic and there’s ‘nothing patriotic’ about criticising cuts only to make them later Labour has refused to give a commitment to maintain the Nato defence spending target at 2...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowThe destruction of a planet may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of astronomers has found evidence that this may have happened in an ancient cluster of stars at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. Using several telescope...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowAriane Flight VA222 Arianespace's next Ariane 5 flight from the Spaceport is now scheduled for April 24. Under the new planning, liftoff will occur at 4:38 p.m. local time in French Guiana - initiating this dual-passenger mission that is...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Asian Defence News
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressVilnius, Lithuania (UPI) Apr 16, 2015 Lithuania is to begin negotiations with Germany over acquisition of an undisclosed number of Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery systems. Disclosure of the talks, to be held beginning in May...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowFinmeccanica-AgustaWestland announced today that the AW139 intermediate twin helicopter delivered to the Carabineros de Chile has now entered service. The aircraft will be used to support a wide range of missions including public order a...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageSam Lagrone, USNI
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from DefenseFrom overwhelming defenses to following submarines, autonomy could reshape naval ops The U.S. Navy is working to ready long-endurance air vehicles to fly from warships, swarming small UAVs and long-duration unmanned undersea and surface ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Defense Daily NetworkCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is at a critical moment that its director called a "seismic shift:" an explosion of data outside the government's control, radical advances in enterprise capacity...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Daily NewsThis year's visible and highly trafficked Navy League Sea Air Space exhibition will not include any presentations from senior enlisted members of the Navy.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Daily NewsChelsea Manning has posted a handwritten letter on her new Twitter feed explaining how her tweets are communicated from military prison in a move designed to quash a welter of internet conspiracy theories claiming the feed is a fraud.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageR. Miller, TNI
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Ministry of Defence - Activity on GOV.UKMAA issuing of an NPA allows a consultation period to be undertaken on a proposed amendment or the implementation of new regulation.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Daily NewsA car bomb exploded outside the U.S. Consulate in the Iraqi city of Irbil, and a series of bombings ravaged areas around Baghdad.,A car bomb exploded outside the U.S. Consulate in the Iraqi city of Irbil. The cause of the blast was not i...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Ministry of Defence - Activity on GOV.UKA guide to the legislation and reference material on the Armed Forces Act 2006.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Daily NewsService before self. It is the second of the Air Force's three core values and just part of life for the men and women who serve at Vance Air Force Base.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from DefenceTalk News and Videos
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Daily NewsA groundbreaking ceremony will be held Friday at Fort Benning on Georgia Power plans to build a $75 million solar panel farm.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from World Defence NewsSerial production of Russia’s new RS-26 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), after the successful final test launch in mid-March, will start in late 2015 or early 2016, a source in the military-industrial complex told TASS on April...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageDaniel Wiser, Free Beacon
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowARLINGTON, Va. - The Army is working toward developing a fully autonomous tactical vehicle, a robotics expert said. "When you start looking at the mid-term, five to 10 years, we start talking about tapping into external s...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Your Defense NewsRaytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) announced today it has been awarded a contract worth over $2.0 billion to deliver the combat-proven Patriot Air and Missile Defense System to an undisclosed international customer. The contract, awarded on Ap...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from DefenceTalk News and Videos
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Daily NewsThe family of a U.S. Marine imprisoned in Iran for nearly four years says the American has been drugged, whipped and told a heartbreaking lie that his mother died in a car accident while he awaits a retrial.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressWashington (AFP) April 16, 2015 Iran poses a growing threat to America's computer networks and has launched increasingly sophisticated digital attacks and spying on US targets, according to a new report released Thursday. Iran's far-reac...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowTrieste/Rome - Orizzonte Sistemi Navali S.p.A., a joint venture between Fincantieri (51%) and Finmeccanica (49%), and prime contractor for Italy within the international Italian-French FREMM - Multi Mission European Frig...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Daily NewsU.N. Security Council members were moved to tears Thursday as the first eyewitness to the latest suspected chlorine attacks on civilians in Syria emerged from the country to give a graphic eyewitness account of dying children.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageJames R. Holmes, RCD
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Daily NewsAn emotionless Yolinda Doss turned to Orange Park police Det. Cody Monroe at the viewing for her slain Navy husband and made a request suggesting a gesture of love.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Ministry of Defence - Activity on GOV.UKA guide to the legislation and reference material on the Armed Forces Act 2006.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageRanda Slim, Foreign Policy
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Your Defense NewsNorthrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and the bwtech@UMBC Cyber Incubator announced today that continuous monitoring solutions provider DB Networks® will be the fifth cyber startup to graduate from the highly successful Cync Program. ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Defense Daily NetworkThe Marine Corps is injecting its Marine expeditionary units with a small special operations detachment to facilitate greater cooperation between SOF and Marine forces. The first deployment of a Special Operations Force Liaison Element w...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowRome - Finmeccanica - Selex ES and defence and security company Saab have recently demonstrated the successful deployment of the BriteCloud expendable active decoy (EAD) from a Gripen fighter. Three flights and three releases ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowNow you can learn at your own pace, when you have time from your desktop...at your home office or at work. Our e-Seminars are completely updated to reflect the new ECR changes that began on October 15, 2013 as well as those that will go ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from World Defence NewsDuring SOFINS 2015 (Special Operations Forces Innovation Network Seminar, April 14-16), created by Special Forces Command and placed under the High Patronage of the French Minister of Defence, Nexter Robotics, a subsidiary of the French ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 16, 2015 The Russian government will do its utmost to preserve the country's leading role in space exploration, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday. On April 12, Russia observes the anniversary of t...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Daily NewsDebate whether vets who can't manage their benefits should be considered "mentally defective" and barred from buying guns resumes.,A Senate panel chairman rekindled a debate Wednesday over whether veterans who cannot manage the...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowWhen the A380 performed its maiden flight 10 years ago this month, it was clear that Airbus was once again shaping the future of air transportation. A decade later, the company’s vision and passion for aviation are keep...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from DefenceTalk News and Videos
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Defense Daily NetworkCompanies, government agencies and other organizations should concentrate the vast bulk of their cyber security efforts on implementing best practices with the least effort going to incident response to buy down risk, a Department of Hom...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Your Defense NewsThe U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a three-year contract to provide engineering and other services to modernize weapon launch platforms on U.S. and allied submarines. The initial award from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center is valued ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking DefenseNATIONAL HARBOR: Navy Secretary Ray Mabus may want to move drones to the top of his priorities, but what kind of unmanned systems do the Navy and Marine Corps want to buy? Don’t think Predator or even the Navy’s new 131-foot-...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressIslamabad April 16, 2015 Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Pakistan next week, Islamabad said Thursday, with investment in the energy sector and Taliban talks in neighbouring Afghanistan likely to feature on the agenda. Xi was orig...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Military & DefenseOne of the issues most critical to Iraq's future is so sensitive and challenging that Iraq's prime minister can't even discuss it without resorting to verbal gymnastics and feigned puzzlement. In Haidar al-Abadi's speech at t...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Ministry of Defence - Activity on GOV.UKThe Military Aviation Authority (MAA) NPA table provides information of proposed changes in regulations and release date.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowHong Kong - Jet Aviation is adding two Hong Kong-based Gulfstream G650ER aircraft to its managed fleet in EMEA and Asia, bringing the total of G650 aircraft in its regional fleet up to seven. Delivery of the aircraft is expect...
- Sunday, April 19, 2015 from NYT > TerrorismMore British Muslims have joined Islamist militant groups than serve in the country’s armed forces. How to understand the pull of jihad.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosTwo Egyptian security researchers figured out how to clone other people's YouTube comments. You could "borrow" approvals and positive reviews so that they appeared to promote your videos, too.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily NewsA critical vulnerability in Windows HTTP.sys was detailed as part of Microsoft's April Patch Tuesday, and the flaw is already being actively exploited in the wild.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosJulian Assange of the whistle-blowing site, WikiLeaks, says that Sony Pictures' data should be publicly available due to its links with "geo-political conflict".
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ThreatpostGoogle engineers have spent the last several years moving many of the company’s online services to encrypted links. Gmail is HTTPS by default, and Google search is done over SSL for much of the world. Now the company is working to ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily NewsNews roundup: The Internet of Things has taken the industry by storm, but are its risks warranted? Verizon doesn't think so. Plus: #GenMobile's lax security attitude; hacking airplanes; cybersecurity skills gap continues.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ThreatpostDennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the Windows HTTP.sys vulnerability, Google's decision to turn off the NPAPI in Chrome and the voting machine security disaster in Virginia.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ThreatpostPublic denial-of-service exploits for a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's implementation of the HTTP protocol stack, HTTP.sys are under way, while remote code execution attacks may still be to come.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed'Internet connectivity in the cabin should be considered a direct link between the aircraft and the outside world,' a GAO report states.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Register - SecurityEncryption in the cloud to become a licence-free service EMC has bought CloudLink – a 20-person Canadian firm specialising in cloud data security software – for an undisclosed price.…
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Register - SecurityDon’t want Bulgarian military police taking your banknotes? Tough! The United Kingdom has joined the European Union's new Schengen Information System II (SIS II), a multinational database-sharing platform for member states' authorities t...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosA recent document about Air Traffic Control from the US Government Accountability Office has caused quite a stir. Could a passenger get the plane to do a barrel roll without even turning off the in-flight movie?
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Register - SecurityQuick, implement a HTTPS-Only standard Responding to the recent proposal for a "HTTPS-Only Standard", the American Civil Liberties Union has stressed the value of a more thorough and timely implementation of functional transport encrypti...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosAs military software becomes more mature and more powerful it is increasingly trusted to act autonomously, but there is one crucial decision that we've not yet ceded; the decision to end human lives.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Register - SecurityCali woman accuses ad giant of, well, a lot of things A California woman is suing Google, alleging hackers exploited the ad giant's inadequate security to run up thousands of dollars in charges on her Play Store account.…
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosTarget says it reached a $19 million settlement with MasterCard to cover some of the damages to financial institutions after its December 2013 data breach. How much more is this breach going to cost?
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosAll it would take to compromise it is to sit in the parking lot with a laptop, some free tools, and a dropper full of tech smarts.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosWhen email was invented over 40 years ago, no one thought about how to ensure the integrity of messages. Here's what you need to know about securing email with the right kind of encryption.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosJust do a Google search on "Find My Phone," and presto! It will show up on a Google map. Then, you can get it to ring its head off.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Register - SecurityBletchley-baiting three-rotor code box sold for six-figure sum A three-rotor Engima machine was sold for a record $269,000 at a Bonhams auction earlier this week. The machine is in complete working condition and was manufactured for the ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Register - SecurityHow to stop hackers letting the gas flow in your connected oven? Bitcoin has the answer A few months ago I had a chat about the Internet of Things with the design head of a well-known home appliance manufacturer. Gartner had just publish...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Sydney, Australia, April 15 – The Ministry of Interior for the United Arab Emirates was selected this week as the next chair of the Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT), an internatio...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Register - Security'Influential multinational corporation at centre of a geo-political conflict' deserves it says Assange TM Wikileaks has decided Sony Pictures is worthy of its attention by releasing 30,000 documents it says were lifted from the company's...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Register - SecurityCrypto overheads could have cost video attic 'hundreds of millions' of dollars Netflix will this year roll out HTTPS to keep customer's viewing habits secret.…
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Register - SecurityМосква got the three it wanted, but code bucket binned plenty of other access requests Law enforcement agencies find Github geeks so boring they submitted a paltry ten subpoenas last year to gain information on 40 of the site's eight mil...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection Silver Spring, MD, April 15 – The number of domestic fish stocks listed as overfished or subject to overfishing has dropped to an all-time low since 1997, when the National Oceanic and...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Register - SecurityHacker claims Mojang ignored disclosures for two years A huffy hacker has published detailed steps for anyone to pull off an 'easy' Minecraft exploit capable of causing servers to crash.…
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Register - SecurityVirginia axes un-patched WinXP-powered ballot boxes The US state of Virginia is decommissioning a long-serving electronic voting system after learning of its gaping security holes.…
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The Register - SecurityPatch Tuesday bug reverse engineered by Thursday The SANS Institute has warned Windows IIS web server admins to get patching as miscreants are now exploiting a flaw in the software to crash websites.…
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The Register - SecuritySupport deadline extended for upgrade stragglers Even though Microsoft quit supporting the wildly popular Windows XP last year, Google has decided to give XP users a break by promising to ship updates and security fixes for its Chrome br...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Austin, TX, April 16 – Xplore Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: XPLR) (“Xplore” or the “company”), a manufacturer of award-winning rugged tablet PCs, has announced that it has...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from NSA NewsDr. Irene Zoppi Rodriguez, a New Employee Orientation instructor at NSA, is also a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve as well as a professor at Strayer University.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security Sunnyvale, CA, April 16 – Agiliance ® , Inc., the Big Data Risk Company™ and independent provider of integrated solutions for operational and security risk intelligence, has announced that Vice P...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security Los Altos, CA & Ramat Gan, Israel, April 16 – LightCyber, a provider of Active Breach Detection solutions, has announced it will be exhibiting at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, April 20...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from ThreatpostTeslacrypt, the fairly new strain of ransomware that's been targeting gamers, is continuing to make the rounds online.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedMobile apps are popular with knowledge workers and hackers alike. Which 10 mobile threats are the most problematic for security pros?
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The Register - SecurityNever Mind Other Malware, Here's the Hex Pistols Security researchers have identified a new strain of point-of-sale (POS) malware during an investigation led by the US Secret Service.…
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders New York & London, April 16 – EXIGER , the global regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance firm has announced the appointment of Jeff Schlanger as managing direct...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from ThreatpostVoting machines in Virginia are hopelessly vulnerable to scores of low level hacks, calling into question the integrity of recent elections there.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The Register - Security173 UK law firms found hackers had their fingers in briefs last year UK data privacy watchdogs at the ICO investigated 173 UK law firms for reported breaches of the Data Protection Act (DPA) last year.…
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from ThreatpostWith the release of Chrome 42 this week, Google fixed more than 40 vulnerabilities. But the most significant security change in the new browser is Google’s decision to disable the NPAPI, essentially turning off plugins such as Java...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedCity workers will be able to turn lights on and off remotely, and will be able to dim them or brighten them as needed.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily NewsThe latest Oracle Critical Patch Update includes fixes for close to 100 vulnerabilities, but one expert says there is a critical update for Java on the desktop that needs immediate attention.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosThe annual RSA Conference in San Francisco is next week, starting on Monday 20 April 2015. Get a free expo pass on us...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/15/15 Surveillance Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments On 1 June, Section 215 of the U.S. A Patriot Act , which permits law enforcement and intelligence agencies to collect certain customers’ record...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/15/15 H-1B visas Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Tech companies seeking more visas for highly skilled foreign workers are pushing their agenda as the United States grant visas to a number of immigrant...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/15/15 Mine detection Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments For decades, the Pentagon has been training dolphins and sea lions to help detect underwater mines and intruding divers near U.S. military bases an...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/15/15 Oil-by-rail transport Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments For many Americans, railroad transportation rarely appears on our mental radar, and when it does, it often comes with a negative context: ei...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/15/15 Nuclear risks Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Since the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California was opened by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. ( PG &E) in 1985, geologists have discovere...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/15/15 Nuclear waste Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Technologies which will enable nuclear waste to be sealed five kilometers below the Earth’s surface could provide a safer, cheaper and more viable a...
