- Friday, April 3, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressWarsaw (AFP) April 3, 2015 Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and its subsequent meddling in eastern Ukraine have triggered vigilance in nearby Poland, the Baltic states and Scandinavia. Within Moscow's orbit during Soviet times, Poland ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from World Defence NewsThe Chinese government has helped 10 countries to evacuate 225 nationals in conflict-ridden Yemen on Thursday, April 2, 2015 following its own evacuation of 571 Chinese nationals. Linyi missile frigate, carrying the 225 nationals of 10 c...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from World Defence NewsAccording to various media, Pakistan's National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence was told on Tuesday that the government has approved the purchase of eight submarines from China. The deal which is still being negotiated is expected...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from DefenseKorean Air bid to develop KF-X fails, KAI is preferred prime contractor While KAI is confirmed as preferred bidder for KF-X development, the role of Lockheed Martin looks unclear. Airbus may yet be asked to join the program to protect it...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowUsing archival data from the Japan-led Suzaku X-ray satellite, astronomers have determined the pre-explosion mass of a white dwarf star that blew up thousands of years ago. The measurement strongly suggests the explosion involved only a ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Defence News and UK Military NewsThe Ministry of Defence has launched a war on unwanted assets - but what's for sale?
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Daily NewsThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will take over construction management at the new Denver veterans hospital amid an internal investigation into how the project ran $1 billion over budget, the Veterans Affairs Department said Thursday.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from American Forces Press Service News FeedSexual assaults and retaliation against people who report them undermine the military's values of honor and trust, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a message to the Defense Department's workforce.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowTokyo - A contract for two new Airbus Helicopters Dauphins, along with deliveries of three Dauphins this month, have underscored the importance of this twin-engine aircraft family inJapan – particularly with the country&...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressOslo (AFP) April 3, 2015 Russian ships docked at what was once a secret Norwegian naval base in the Arctic have prompted concern from the NATO country's former top military leaders, anxious about its resurgent eastern neighbour roaming n...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Military & DefenseIranian president Hassan Rouhani just gave a televised speech on the political framework agreement on his country's nuclear program hammered out on Thursday that offers plenty of insight into how Iran interprets the deal. According to a ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from World Defence NewsDozens of well-trained foreign troops arrived Thursday, April 2, 2015 in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, where fierce street fighting is taking place between gunmen of the Shiite Houthi group and tribal militia allied with Yemen's Pr...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Military & DefenseFormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a statement expressing strong support for the framework for a nuclear deal with Iran that was announced on Thursday . In her statement, Clinton, who is widely seen as the Democratic frontr...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageD. Graham, The Atlantic
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Military & DefenseBEIJING (Reuters) - Buddhist temples and monasteries in Tibet must become propaganda centers for the ruling Communist Party, where monks and nuns learn to "revere" science and appreciate the party's love, the troubled region's top Chines...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from DefenseAustralia’s Boeing E-7 Wedgetails are working well, with system improvements coming Australia’s E-7 Wedgetails are about to be fully operational—but not finally operational. The latter status will probably be reached the day before it is...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Defence News and UK Military NewsAs Iran edges towards a deal, which countries have nukes, which countries want them, and which are going to get them, asks Shashank Joshi?
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Defence News and UK Military NewsReports based on documents leaked by American whistle-blower Edward Snowden
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from American Forces Press Service News FeedArmy 1st Sgt. Sandrea Cruz, a jumpmaster in the Special Forces, credits her father's service as a Green Beret for inspiring her to join the military and excel.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressTehran (AFP) April 3, 2015 It was a single message on Twitter that began to raise expectations that the agonising wait would be worth it, as families gathered around their televisions looking for news. The feeling soon turned into joyful...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from World Defence NewsThe Angolan Air Force is to receive the first of 12 upgraded Su-30K fighter jets from Russia this year, with deliveries set to conclude in late 2016 or early 2017, reported defenceWeb yesterday. According to IHS Janes, a batch of fighter...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Defense Industry Daily
PRC-154 with 75th RR(click to view full) The Pentagon’s JTRS (Joint Tactical Radio System) aimed to replace existing radios in the American military with a single set of software-define radios that could have new frequencies and mo... - Friday, April 3, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageJ. Holmes, RCD
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowAs nations in Eastern Europe embark on upgrading their military capabilities and increase spending, the Armoured Vehicle has become a focus of many of the land forces commands wishing to ensure effective combat and peacekeeping operation...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Defense Industry DailyAmericas The Navy has allocated $610 million worth of funding for the construction of Arleigh Burke-class DDG-122, with the total value of the contract with Bath Iron Works now reaching $3.4 billion. In related news, Lockheed Martin and ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Military & DefenseThe April 2nd attack in Garissa, Kenya was the deadliest and most heinous atrocity the Somali terrorist group Al Shabaab has ever committed. Gunmen from Al Qaeda's affiliate in the Horn of Africa stormed a university campus in the city, ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a set of wispy, goblin-green objects that are the ephemeral ghosts of quasars that flickered to life and then faded. The glowing structures have looping, helical, and braided shapes. &...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Daily NewsOfficials released few details Thursday about an Air force Academy cadet who died after he was found in a school dormitory.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from StrategyPage.com
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageAbe Greenwald, Commentary
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Ottawa Citizen » Defence Watch
Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Whitehorse, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy, assisted with the interception of more than 5200 kg of cocaine in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of ... - Friday, April 3, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressNew York (AFP) April 2, 2015 Two American women inspired by Al-Qaeda and extremists in Syria were arrested in New York on Thursday, charged with planning to build a bomb and attack the United States, prosecutors said. Former roommates No...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from DefenceTalk News and Videos
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressBeijing (AFP) April 3, 2015 China's former security chief Zhou Yongkang was charged Friday with bribery, abuse of power and disclosing state secrets, authorities said, making him the most senior official prosecuted in decades and setting...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from World Defence NewsThe Northern Fleet anti underwater sabotage unit specialists conducted trials of the UAV “Takhion” which was designed to conduct air reconnaissance and detecting small and nearly invisible coastal, surface and underwater objects. Read More
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from StrategyPage.com
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from World Defence NewsChief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert and Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) stressed the versatility of the Independence -Class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) April 1 at a press conference on board Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from IHS Jane's 360: Global Defence News and Defence HeadlinesThe German Ministry of Defence (MoD) issued a statement concerning the reliability of the Heckler & Koch G36 service rifle on 30 March, prompting statements from Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen and Bundeswehr chief of staff General...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from World Defence NewsVenezuela has announced plans to increase its total amount of arms imports from Russia and China in the coming years. Venezuela is the largest weapons importer in Latin America, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Ins...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from DefenseA&D needs a revolution to stay atop its game The digital economy is seeping into every corner of the aerospace and defense industry, and it is just the beginning. read more
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from World Defence NewsAdvanced radioelectronic warfare complexes of the Krasukha family will help Russian Army units to cover the Arctic areas, the press service of the KRET corporation for radioelectronic technologies said on Thursday, April 2, 2015. New Rus...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Daily NewsCol. Jeff Morgan barked instructions to his staff as they conducted surgery for a knee replacement on a marathon runner at Womack Army Medical Center.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageColin Clark, Breaking Defense
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressJerusalem (AFP) April 3, 2015 Israel has warned relentlessly against a nuclear deal with Iran, but experts say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's options are limited and immediate military action is unlikely. Netanyahu slammed Thursday'...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from World Defence NewsAccording to Indian English-language daily newspaper The New Indian Express, the Indian Navy will order the mid-life upgrade (MLU) of six Russian-made Kamov Ka-28 Helix-A anti-submarine warfare helicopters in addition to the complete ove...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from IHS Jane's 360: Global Security - News and Defence HeadlinesEVENT On 29 March, land reform activist group the Organisation of the Struggle for Land (Organisación de Lucha por la Tierra (OLT) called for the Paraguayan government to expropriate a 4,499-hectare plot of land. The Pindó ranch is owned...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from American Forces Press Service News FeedDefense Secretary Ash Carter will visit Asia twice over the next two months to affirm defense relationships with allies and build upon key initiatives of the U.S. strategic rebalance to the region, Pentagon officials announced.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from ASDNews.com: Be the first to knowEAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Pratt & Whitney's PurePower engine family has completed more than 16,000 hours and 31,000 cycles of full engine testing, including 3,500 hours of flight time. The data includes flight testing inf...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from IHS Jane's 360: Global Defence News and Defence HeadlinesThe Polish Ministry of Economy (MoE) announced on 1 April that Airbus had completed its offset obligations for the procurement of Airbus C295M aircraft that were first ordered in 2001. According to the MoE, the final value of the offset ...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Military | The GuardianThe young able seaman was so happy about going on week-end leave that he continually burst out singing With a quiff of yellow hair exploding out of his cap and over his brow, a red face with pale blue seaman’s eyes, a white wool scarf ro...
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from ThreatpostResearchers have seen an uptick in Adobe Flash .SWF files being used to trigger malicious iFrames across websites.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from ThreatpostVMware has issued an update to a number of its products fixing an information disclosure bug in Oracle's Java runtime environment.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from ThreatpostIBM warns banks and corporate officers of a change to the dangerous Dyre banking Trojan that involves the phone scam used to bypass fraud detection, and a DDoS attack that distracts security teams away from big-money transfers.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from ThreatpostDennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about Google's decision to drop Chinese CA CNNIC from Chrome's trust store, the scope of the malvertising threat and Verizon's super cookie use.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > TerrorismDozens of others were wounded in the city of Khost, including a member of Parliament, at a demonstration seeking the removal of a provincial governor.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > TerrorismInterviews with relatives and neighbors of the gunmen who killed 22 people in a rampage at the National Bardo Museum in Tunis last month betrayed equal measures of shock and shame.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > TerrorismTwo simultaneous assaults left at least 13 Egyptian soldiers and two civilians dead, security officials said, ending a weekslong lull in such violence.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > TerrorismAt least 70 people were killed in the attack on Garissa University College, and 79 were injured, the Kenya National Disaster Operation Center said on Twitter.
- Friday, April 3, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security Arlington, VA, April 2 – Lunarline and Damballa have announced a strategic partnership to bring Damballa’s advanced threat detection technology to Lunarline’s government clients in th...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Beverly Good El Paso, TX, April 2 – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) El Paso Port Director Beverly Good was formally sworn into office during a CBP Field Operations ...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection Geneva, April 2 – New data on the harm caused by foodborne illnesses underscore the global threats posed by unsafe foods, and the need for coordinated, cross-border action across the e...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption: Josh Shapiro Harrisburg, PA, April 1 – Governor Tom Wolf announced that he named Montgomery County Commissioners' Chairman Josh Shapiro the chair of t...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security El Segundo, CA, April 2 – NC4 , a provider of revolutionizing safety and security, has announced that it is supporting the Defense Security Information Exchange (DSIE, also know...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedBoth Google and Mozilla are taking aggressive measures against Chinese certificate authority CNNIC.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security Cambridge, MA, April 2 – The APWG reports in its new Phishing Activity Trends Report that phishing against banks and ISPs rose markedly compared to other sectors in the third quarter ...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The Register - SecurityDisk encryption wonder-tool probed amid developer disappearing act The researchers behind the security audit of the TrueCrypt disk-encryption software have completed their work and say they have found no evidence of any deliberate backdo...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosObama signed a new executive order on Wednesday (1 April 2015) authorizing financial sanctions against foreign hackers, and companies that knowingly benefit from cyberattacks against US interests.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ThreatpostAuditors performing a cryptanalysis of TrueCrypt found four vulnerabilities, but zero backdoors in the popular open source encryption software.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from RSS for Terrorismnull
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily NewsThe Internet of Things dominates the agenda at RSA Conference 2015, but experts believe enterprises should focus their attention on threat intelligence and other topics.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from RSS for Terrorismnull
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ThreatpostGoogle's first Android Security Report puts some hard data behind the effectiveness of the security enhancements it has put into the OS.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from RSS for TerrorismNY man accused of building X-ray weapon to target Muslims says authorities concocted plot
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from RSS for TerrorismAuthorities arrested Noelle Velentzas and Asia Siddiqui for allegedly planning to detonate a bomb in New York City.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Breaking news on terrorism - breakingnews.comUS citizen Muhanad Mahmoud al Sarekh, a former member of al-Qaida, brought to the US to face terrorism charges after capture in Pakistan - @NBCNews
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Terrorism in the UKCouncillor Shakil Ahmed issues statement saying he is 'shocked, worried and extremely upset' to find his son was one of nine Britons held by Turkish authorities
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Breaking news on terrorism - breakingnews.comUS counter terrorism official says al-Shabaab attack on Kenyan college was in the works for 'a long time' - @NBCNews
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Breaking news on terrorism - breakingnews.comIsraeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: 'Any deal must significantly roll back Iran's nuclear capabilities and stop its terrorism and aggression' - @IsraeliPM
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Breaking news on terrorism - breakingnews.comOfficials say 2 women arrested on terror charges in Queens, NY, discussed possible bombing targets online but there was no specific plot - @NBCNews
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from RSS for Terrorism'American Odyssey' gives network TV international intrigue, terrorism and corporate conspiracy
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Breaking news on terrorism - breakingnews.com2 women arrested in Queens, NY, on terror-related charges; expected to appear in court later Thursday - @NBCNewYork
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from NSA NewsA small sampling of the Friedman Papers is now available on NSA's Declassification and Transparency page.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ThreatpostA Russian security researcher discovered that he could delete any video on YouTube by sending a simple POST request in YouTube's Creator Studio.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from RSS for TerrorismPakistan military court sentences 6 Islamic militants to death on terrorism charges
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed'Starting today, we're giving notice to those who pose significant threats to our security or economy,' President Obama said.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Dark Reading:Measurables for improving security posture around access controls.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Dark Reading:No! That's despite an abundance of best practices and standards that are shining light into the dark corners of industrial control system security.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The Register - SecurityIsraeli firm buys its own solution to Bring-Your-Own-Device headaches Check Point is buying Lacoon Mobile Security, in a deal that expands the security software firm beyond its core firewall and IDS market while pushing it further into m...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Security NewsThe post TBS at Intersec 2015 appeared first on Security News Desk .
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily NewsSecurity experts say the largest DDoS attack in GitHub history, which lasted five days, was the work of the Chinese government.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Security NewsThe post ASSA ABLOY at Intersec 2015 appeared first on Security News Desk .
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Security NewsAt Intersec 2015, Philip Ingram caught up with Jamil Alasfar, Regional Sales Manager, IDIS, to learn why IDIS solutions are doing well in the Middle East. The post IDIS ideal for the needs of Middle East market appeared first on Security...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Terrorism in the UKScotland Yard says 44-year-old held by officers from Counter Terrorism Command on suspicion of fundraising for purpose of terrorism
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosGoogle has taken a heavy hand to ad injectors after a study revealed 34% of surveyed ads were peddling malware and 192 "deceptive Chrome extensions" were discovered.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from SecurityProNewsToday, President Obama signed an executive order that will allow the US government to go after those who perpetrate cyber attacks with sanctions “Cyber intrusions and attacks – many of them originating overseas – are targeting our busi...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from RSS for TerrorismAt least 15 are dead after armed attackers stormed Garissa University College in Kenya as students were preparing for morning prayers.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The Register - SecurityCertificate dodginess leads to Chrome banhammer Google has announced it will no longer recognise the Chinese Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) as a Root Certificate Authority, following an investigation into unauthorised certif...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Breaking news on terrorism - breakingnews.comPakistan's newly-established military courts sentence '6 hard core terrorists' to death, military spokesman says - @Reuters
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Security NewsIn an unprecedented insight to the future of Al Qaeda, 5 Dimensions consultants based in Dubai, with direct access to information inside the command structures of Al Qaeda have released an assessment of their future based on actual discu...
