Category: CyberWarfare / ExoWarfare

An Entirely New Form of 3D Vision Was Just Discovered in Praying Mantises Look at their tiny glasses! MICHELLE STARR 9 FEB 2018 Many vertebrate animals, including us humans, have two eyes that are able to perceive three-dimensional structures. But a new study has discovered that praying mantises have an altogether unique ability to see…

In 2017, the Navy saw two deadly ship collisions at sea. First, the destroyer Fitzgerald collided with a container ship near Japan in June, and then again two months later the destroyer John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker near Singapore. Both incidents were, per comprehensive Navy investigations, due to human error. The findings…

Modern battles begin invisibly. The military uses the electromagnetic spectrum – essential, yet invisible – to detect, deceive and disrupt the enemy while protecting friendly forces. As enemies become more capable and threats more complex, controlling the spectrum is increasingly critical.​ Northrop Grumman’s capabilities in electronic warfare, full spectrum cyber and electromagnetic maneuver warfare (EMW)…

A U.S. Army Pacific Soldier moves down a road while controlling an unmanned vehicle as part of the Pacific Manned Unmanned – Initiative July 22, 2016, at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, Hawaii. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal)   Robot soldiers from cinematic nightmares are glistening silver automatons, with rictus skulls…

SAN DIEGO: The Navy’s overworked IT teams need new “virtual training tools” and more time to train, especially for all-out cyber/electronic warfare against a high-end adversary, the commander of Naval Information Forces said here Tuesday. As the new National Defense Strategy refocuses the entire military from counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan to great-power warfare against…

Cisco: You need to patch our security devices again for dangerous ASA VPN bug Cisco has warned that its original fix for the 10/10-severity ASA VPN flaw was “incomplete”. By Liam Tung | February 6, 2018 — 13:27 GMT (13:27 GMT) | Topic: Security   Cisco has released new security updates for the dangerous bug…

The Airbus Vahana flying taxi actually flew for the first time Seems like just yesterday Airbus’ Vahana autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) craft was little more than a painted concept, but now it’s actually flown, during a full-scale prototype test that lasted just under a minute, and during which the Vahana aircraft was…

Army Reserve Sgt. Charles Smalley and Sgt. Alex Katz install a Blue Force Tracker system on a tactical vehicle for the 300th Sustainment Brigade Det. 2 on Sept. 20, 2016, at an undisclosed location in Iraq. (Spc. Milagro Perez/Army)   Washington — The U.S. Army is preparing to modernize its friendly forces tracking system so…

CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: NATO’s plans to defend the Baltic States are “inadequate” because they don’t take full account of Russia’s electronic warfare capabilities, a leading expert warns.   Roger McDermott     The Russians are hardly invincible, Roger McDermott emphasized at CSIS Tuesday. The story of them “shutting down” the Aegis radar…

After fitness data service Strava revealed bases and patrol routes with an online “heat map,” the US military is reexamining its security policies for the social media age.   A modern equivalent of the World War II era warning that “loose lips sink ships” may be “FFS don’t share your Fitbit data on duty.” Over…

Tuesday January 30, 2018: Kill Code In Car http://dilbert.com/      

Das Weltwirtschaftsforum fand bereits zum 48. Mal in der Stadt Davos (im Kanton Graubünden in den Schweizer Alpen) statt. Staatenlenker wie Merkel, Macron, Trump und Trudeau sowie die Elite aus der Wirtschaft müssen vor Angriffen geschützt werden. Jedes Jahr werden rund 3.000 Besucher aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft beim World Economic Forum erwartet. Für die…

by security guru Brian Krebs, KrebsOnSecurity   Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, said today it is in the process of rolling out a new service designed to help companies more quickly make sense of and act on the mountains of threat data produced each day by cybersecurity tools. Countless organizations rely on a…

Jülich – Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte kauft ein großes deutsches Forschungszentrum einen Superrechner, der nicht aus den USA stammt: Das Forschungszentrum Jülich kauft den Hochleistungsrechner BullSequana X1000 von der französischen Atos. Bislang war der Markt fest in der Hand amerikanischer Hersteller wie IBM. Nach Angaben von Atos bringt es die Maschine auf bis…

Acquisition, Land, Strategy & Policy CSA MiIley Bets On ‘Radical’ Tech, Promises No More FCS CRYSTAL CITY: The Army needs revolutionary technologies from robot tanks to a long-range super-rifle, the Chief of Staff said today — and it can get them without repeating the mistakes that doomed high-tech programs in the past. By reforming the…