Anonymous hackers and their supporters have launched massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against the official site of the Central Intelligence Agency (cia.gov) and the one of the US Department of Justice (DOD - justice.gov).
According to one of the hackers that participated in the attacks, the webs... |
16 April 2012
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Experts from the US Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) took part at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services subcommittee where the cyber capabilities of the Pentagon were debated.
DARPA Acting Director Kaigham J. Gabriel has revealed t... |
23 March 2012
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US Department of Defense (DoD), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the While House, all sent representatives to the RSA security conference that’s taking place in San Francisco and they revealed their intentions to enhance the control they have over the Internet.
According to Technology Review, US military... |
1 March 2012
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According to representatives from the US Navy, the Department of Defense and the Lockheed Martin Corporation will launch a new satellite today, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The spacecraft will take off at around 5:46 pm EST (2246 GMT) on February 16. It represents a part of the Mobile User Objective Sy... |
16 February 2012
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Sykipot, the well-known Trojan that’s been targeting US companies since 2007, has been found by security researchers to have an improved version which is able to hijack smart cards utilized by the United States Department of Defense (DoD). Researchers from AlienVault Labs reveal that cybercriminals attempt to... |
13 January 2012
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Charlie Miller, a hacker best known for pirating Apple’s iOS and Mac operating systems, is now on the DoD’s for providing invaluable advice on cyber security.NATO is bringing in la creme de la creme in the hacking community to gain protection for its information systems.Miller was invited to the conferenc... |
8 December 2011
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The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) a $4.5 million (€3.26 million), four-year grant for the development of advanced types of carbon nanotubes (CNT).
These tiny constructs have tremendously complex applications in anything from optics and m... |
3 November 2011
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A new report from The Pew Charitable Trusts documents how the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is accelerating clean energy innovations in order to reduce risks to America's military, enhance energy security and save money.The report finds that DoD clean energy investments increased 300 percent between 2006 and ... |
5 October 2011
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After conducting arguably the most comprehensive geological study ever carried out in Afghanistan, an international collaboration of scientists determined that the country's underground is very rich in various resources. Using these riches could contribute to moving the Middle Eastern nation forward.
This wor... |
30 September 2011
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Scientists at DARPA are proposing the development and construction of a new type of construction facility, that could build everything from synthetic blood to tanks at the push of a button. The crew working for the US Defense Advanced Researcher Agency is not known for coming up with realistic projects that make sens... |
27 August 2010
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Officials at the Boeing Corporation said today, August 23, that the company has been awarded $182 million in funding by the US Air Force, in order to begin work on the seventh WGS satellite.The Wideband Global SATCOM constellation has already proven its worth on countless occasions, and so Boeing was the natural choi... |
23 August 2010
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The next generations of lasers and infrared photodetectors will be used in a variety of applications covering many fields of research. Medical imaging technologies, astronomical studies and military devices could all be improved thanks to new work being conducted at the Arizona State University (ASU). The team here i... |
5 August 2010
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Officials at the Boeing Corporation announce today that the United States Air Force (USAF) has just commissioned the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) military communications satellite. The instrument has been constructed at Boeing, which is the primary contractor for the entire program. The purpose of this constell... |
2 August 2010
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While open-source software and applications have been providing a generous and efficient way to replace proprietary software in our day-to-day life, many Governments around the Globe have hesitated in adopting such solutions for their official platforms. Last week, the U.S. Department of Defense has released to the p... |
2 November 2009
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The US Department of Defense recently started taking a closer look at its aging Global Positioning System (GPS), after warnings from a top federal official showed that it might be ill-equipped, to ensure that the system's coverage would endure over the next 5 to 10 years. According to the Government Accountabili... |
23 May 2009
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The US Department of Defense (DOD) is advocating the creation of a new computer software that would replace the familiar faces of parents in the eyes of children left at home while they are serving their country. Although the department admits that such a substitution is not exactly the best option for everyone invol... |
19 January 2009
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The UK has recently proposed the creation of a so-called "super database" with the purpose of logging information about every telephone call, text message, and e-mail sent. The thing is that, over the past four years, from 2004 up to this day, the MoD (Ministry of Defense) has officially admitted to losing a total of... |
19 July 2008
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United States - You attack them and they will respond to it! And it's been all over the news lately. The Pentagon has acknowledged that they have been hit by hackers and that a part of there system had some downtime. The Chinese have been blamed for this in the papers, but there has been no actual official decla... |
6 September 2007
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The famous software pirate DrinkOrDie was sentenced to 51 months in prison for distributing almost any type of pirated material including applications, games, music and videos. Hew Griffiths, 44 year old, pleaded guilty last year, and was extradited to Australia, his mother country. As Ars Technica reported, the pira... |
26 June 2007
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