CYBER WARS

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Electromagnetics, cyber warfare systems contract awarded to Raytheon
May 11, 2017 (UPI)
The work includes experimental projects, demonstration projects and applications of current technology concerning HPEM systems. The work will be conducted at Ki...
Microsoft CEO: tech sector needs to prevent '1984' future
May 10, 2017 (AFP)
At the start of its annual Build Conference, Microsoft sought to showcase applications with artificial intelligence that could tap into services in the internet...
Chelsea Manning thanks Obama ahead of impending release
May 09, 2017 (AFP)
Manning had served seven years of a 35-year stretch when outgoing president Barack Obama commuted her sentence earlier this year. She is due to be released next...
US regulator website hacked after TV host comments
May 08, 2017 (AFP)
The Federal Communications Commission, whose chairman last month promised to review a 2015 rule that requires broadband firms to treat all online traffic equall...
Combine Next-Generation Radio with Information Technology: What Do You Get?
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
Catalyzing interest and awareness in this cyber-physical intersection-and the development of new technology with an eye on both its promise and peril-is what pr...
SAIC to provide cyber support for Marine Corps
May 04, 2017 (UPI)
The task order from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific to Science Applications International Corp. is for one year with two one-year options. It...
China tightens rules for online news providers
May 03, 2017 (AFP)
The ruling party oversees a vast apparatus designed to censor online content deemed politically sensitive, maintaining that such measures are necessary for the ...
China deports US woman convicted of 'spying'
Apr 30, 2017 (AFP)
Sandy Phan-Gillis was detained in March 2015 at the Macau border after visiting mainland China with a trade delegation from the Texas oil capital Houston. She w...
US NSA spy agency halts controversial email sweep
Apr 28, 2017 (AFP)
The powerful US spy agency said that although it has the legal power to continue scooping up such communications, it would halt the practice to protect the priv...
U.S. Air Force seeks hackers to test the security of its web portals
Apr 27, 2017 (UPI)
The initiative, part of the Cyber Secure campaign sponsored by the Air Force's chief information officer, will feature a contest from May 30 to June 23 in which...
Information Space Turns Into New Battleground - Russian General Staff
Apr 27, 2017 (Sputnik)
"The information space has become a new theater of military operations as the armies of practically all countries in the world have set up structures intended f...
Facebook steps up fight on state-led propaganda
Apr 27, 2017 (AFP)
The new effort expands Facebook's security efforts beyond "abusive" actions such as hacking and financial scams to "more subtle and insidious forms of misuse, i...
Rockwell Collins gets contract for improved cyber security
Apr 25, 2017 (UPI)
The Mathematics-based techniques were developed by Rockwell Collins and its partners in the High Assurance Cyber Military Systems, or HACMS, program of the U.S....
Denmark says Russia hacked defence ministry emails
Apr 24, 2017 (AFP)
"This is part of a continuing war from the Russian side in this field, where we are seeing a very aggressive Russia," Defence Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen t...
Baking Hack Resistance Directly into Hardware
Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)
But what if hardware could be recruited to do a bigger share of that work? That's the question DARPA's new System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmw...
Web pioneer slams UK, US calls to weaken encryption
Apr 04, 2017 (AFP)
British web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on Tuesday slammed as a "bad idea" recent calls in Britain and the United States to weaken cyber encryption. "I know that if...
German military to launch cyber command
Mar 31, 2017 (AFP)
Germany's armed forces Saturday launch a cyber command, with a status equal to that of the army, navy and air force, meant to shield its IT and weapons systems ...
With new iPhone, Trump still a target for hackers
Mar 30, 2017 (AFP)
President Donald Trump has a new phone. An iPhone. That would not ordinarily be news, but given the security concerns about the risk of hack attacks on the prol...
Esri contracted for embedded training of intelligence agency personnel
Mar 30, 2017 (UPI)
Spatial analytics company Esri is to place National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency personnel in temporary positions as part of an embedded training program, the...
VPN users in China megacity Chongqing face fines
Mar 28, 2017 (AFP)
People in the Chinese megacity Chongqing could be fined for using VPNs to jump over the country's "Great Firewall" that blocks access to forbidden websites from...
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