Category: CyberWarfare / ExoWarfare

COLORADO SPRINGS: One topic dominates just about every conversation here at the AFCEA cyber symposium: where to find promising cyber warriors and how to hire them and keep them. Deloitte, which is building a substantial cyber warfare portfolio, put on a Capture the Flag game where five teams of college hackers had to find code…

Lockheed Martin this week unveiled its offering for a program that has been commonly thought of as Cyber Command’s top acquisition priority this year. The unified platform has been described as a “cyber carrier,” which cyber warriors can use to coordinate plans, house tools and launch attacks. Lockheed Martin’s prototype for the program is a…

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The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has granted authorization to connect unclassified national security data and mission critical information to the cloud. The provisional authorization granted by the Department of Defense will allow Impact Level 5 data be to stored using milCloud 2.0 from CSRA, a government information technology company. MilCloud 2.0 is the DoD’s…

The Army is working to develop a single platform that can do electronic attack and intelligence gathering. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Armando Limon/U.S. Army)   The Department of Defense under Secretary of Defense James Mattis has begun to prioritize great power competition over terrorism for the first time in nearly 20 years. This has had…

“innovative discoveries are increasingly coming from the collaboration between disciplines, such as medicine and engineering”   This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew)   Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and the University of Maryland School of Engineering have developed a new military vehicle shock absorbing device that may protect…

This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew)   While researchers are working on a powerful 100-kilowatt laser to shoot down drones, smaller, more scientifically manageable projects have already been fielded. In fact, US Army soldiers are already using one of the first practical laser weapons in Europe, a civilian director of the Army’s Space…

This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew)   In today’s world, almost no one can hide from the authorities. There are cameras everywhere now, and with facial recognition algorithms your face could be recognized within seconds. You can see it even on Facebook, that offers automatic tagging of photos taken. One startup company is…

This… does not sound good. PATRICK CAUGHILL, FUTURISM 3 MAR 2018 The Google of China, Baidu, has just released a white paper showing its latest development in artificial intelligence (AI): a program that can clone voices after analyzing even a seconds-long clip, using a neural network. Not only can the software mimic an input voice,…

Krebs on Security: Attackers have seized on a relatively new method for executing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks of unprecedented disruptive power, using it to launch record-breaking DDoS assaults over the past week. Now evidence suggests this novel attack method is fueling digital shakedowns in which victims are asked to pay a ransom to call off…

Under a new plan put in place late last year, the head of U.S. Cyber Command received expanded authorities, but Fifth Domain has learned Congress and the Department of Defense have considered further extending those powers. The discussion, which included members of the Joint Staff, comes as Cyber Command is expected to become a full…

It’s almost as if New Orleans were contracting its own version of the NSA.   Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans that even city council members don’t know about By Ali Winston Feb 27, 2018, 3:25pm EST Illustrations by Garret Beard and Alex Castro In May and June 2013, when New Orleans’…

Experten befürchten einen umfangreichen Datendiebstahl: Russische Hacker sollen möglicherweise ein Jahr lang das gesicherte Netzwerk des Bundes infiltriert haben. 28. Februar 2018 Quelle: ZEIT ONLINE, dpa, rv, fo, kb, kpm Ausländische Hacker sind in das als sicher geltende Datennetzwerk des Bundes und der Sicherheitsbehörden eingedrungen. Das berichteten übereinstimmend die dpa und die Süddeutsche Zeitung. Offenbar…

“Life cycle of a successful spearphishing operation” (Department of Homeland Security graphic)   WASHINGTON: Under relentless grilling from Democratic senators, the four-star officer who heads both Cyber Command and the NSA said the US government is “not doing enough” to prevent Russia from meddling in the 2018 elections. Could the US keep the Russians from…

This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) The U.S. Air Force wants 22 new GPS satellites that are built to resist jamming and electronic interference. The service expects to spend $2 billion on the new satellites for the GPS 3 constellation in the next five years. The production of all 22 satellites is expected…

This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) The U.S. Army is now sending a robotic Humvee to the gun range to see if an autonomous vehicle can accurately engage targets with its remote-controlled machine gun. The armed Hummer is part of the “Wingman” program to develop vehicles that can tag along with U.S. Army…

AFA ORLANDO: Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) doesn’t speak much in public, for obvious reasons. The commander pretty much appears once a year here to speak with reporters, and for the last three years, mounting lasers on AC-130 gunships  has been a top topic. The former AFSOC commander, Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold, first announced…

A new report from a series of national security and technology research organizations, including Elon Musk’s OpenAI, details the potential security threats posed by misuses of artificial intelligence. The report, titled “The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention and Mitigation,” echoes the sentiments voiced by European leaders gathered at the Munich Security Conference last…