Computer Science

3-D printing will streamline the Navy’s supply chain — and much more

May 27, 2013

Source: AFJ Three-dimensional printing, a fast-moving technology that is still in its infancy, promises to upend the way we think about supply chains, sea basing and even maritime strategy. But it also requires us to think hard and carefully about the threats it enables and the vulnerabilities it introduces. As Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Neil [...]

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The future of propaganda: big data will be a key part of the propaganda campaigns around the wars.

May 21, 2013

Source: Gigaom In 2009, Sean Gourley, an Oxford-trained physicist, gave a TED talk called “The Mathematics of War.” Gourley had been working with the Pentagon, the United Nations and the Iraqi Government to help them better understand the nature of the insurgency in Iraq, and in his presentation he announced something fairly striking: After analyzing the location, timing, [...]

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U.S. could use cyberattack on Syrian air defenses

May 16, 2013

Editor’s Note: Electronic Warfare : IDF’s teleprocessing corps C4i , Israel’s high-tech whiz kids, Unit 8200, and W32.Flame and Israel invests millions in drive for elite ‘cyber warriors’: Unit 8200 Source: USA Today The Pentagon has cyberattack capabilities that allow the U.S. military to help blind Syrian air defenses without firing a shot, according to military analysts. “One [...]

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‘Minority Report’ policing comes to the UK

May 15, 2013

Source: Telegraph Kent Police is using computer software to analyse historic offending and criminal behaviour to try and pinpoint where crimes will happen next. It is an echo of the Tom Cruise science fiction film Minority Report in which “pre-crime” units use psychics to predict future criminals and arrest them before they have even offended. [...]

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Electronic Warfare : IDF’s teleprocessing corps C4i

May 10, 2013

Source: JP “I’m directing EW at the head. This is also a form of psychological warfare. I can engage in this and then deny it. It wrecks the functionality of the enemy,” the source added. These days, the idea of Israel engaging its enemies in a war, whether in near or distant arenas, without its [...]

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Training for war in a virtual battlespace

May 9, 2013

Source: TPP There is a sandstorm all around, and anything could be hidden up ahead in the haze of central Iraq. As a U.S. Army Humvee edges forward, a burst of gunfire erupts, slamming into the bulletproof glass of the passenger door. For an instant, the world becomes a dizzying mix of frantic steering wheel [...]

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Predictive Policing Project: LAPD Pre-Crime Divisions

March 31, 2013

Source: AGE The morning watch at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Foothill division begins at 6am, when the shift’s officers gather for roll-call and a briefing. The dozen or so officers file into the roll-call room and find space on the benches. They are briefed on incidents from the previous shift, and on any offenders [...]

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Amazon Web Services to build CIA spook cloud

March 19, 2013

Source:FCW In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years. Amazon Web Services will help the intelligence agency build a private cloud infrastructure that helps the [...]

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Carnegie Mellon and NSA seek high school hackers for next generation of cyber warriors

March 16, 2013

Source: AP Bored with classes? Carnegie Mellon University and one of the government’s top spy agencies want to interest high school students in a game of computer hacking. Their goal with “Toaster Wars” is to cultivate the nation’s next generation of cyber warriors in offensive and defensive strategies. The free, online “high school hacking competition” [...]

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The Russian army is preparing for war in cyberspace

March 2, 2013

Source: R&I Cyberspace is rapidly becoming, if not a battlefield in the direct sense of the word, then a central arena for future wars. In this context, the decision by the Russian Ministry of Defence to create a specialised network command is justified and timely. According to media reports, Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu recently [...]

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Digital Blackwater: U.S. Government outsources cyberwarfare to private U.S. firms

February 21, 2013

Source: AP When Kevin Mandia, a retired military cybercrime investigator, decided to expose China as a primary threat to U.S. computer networks, he didn’t have to consult with American diplomats in Beijing or declassify tactics to safely reveal government secrets. He pulled together a 76-page report based on seven years of his company’s work and [...]

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Raytheon’s RIOT program tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour

February 10, 2013

Source: Guardian A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites. A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an “extreme-scale analytics” system created by Raytheon, the world’s fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people [...]

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Who controls the Internet?

February 7, 2013

Source: Business Line Internet governance is an important policy and governance issue that has been raised at international level. Since the World Summit on Internet Society in 2003, nations have called for a transparent, democratic and multilateral governance of the Internet. This is against the current global governance by Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and [...]

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U.K. spy agencies plan to install Web snooping ‘black boxes’

February 5, 2013

Source: ZDNET The ‘black box’ snooping devices would also be used to collect data from overseas companies, including U.S.-based service providers and social networks, such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. The U.K.’s intelligence agencies are planning to install ‘black box’-style surveillance devices in the country’s telecommunications infrastructure to monitor the U.K.’s online activity. According to [...]

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U.S. pre-emptive cyberstrikes will be launched under secret guidelines to protect computer systems

February 4, 2013

Source: Independent The US could launch pre-emptive cyber strikes against countries it suspects of threatening its interests with a digital attack, under a new set of secret guidelines to safeguard the nation’s computer systems. The rules – the country’s first on how it defends or retaliates against digital attacks – are expected to be approved [...]

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Pentagon to create National, Combat and Cyber Protection Mission Forces

January 27, 2013

Source:SMH/WP The Pentagon has approved a major expansion of its cybersecurity force over the next several years, more than quadrupling its size to bolster the nation’s ability to defend critical computer systems and conduct offensive computer operations against foreign adversaries, according to US officials. The move, requested by the head of the Defence Department’s Cyber [...]

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China trying to encircle India via tech deals with neighbours: RAW

January 23, 2013

Source: Times of India India should counter China’s move to build and run communication networks in its neighbourhood countries such as Nepal and Maldives, the telecom ministry and the national security establishment have cautioned, following an alarm raised by intelligence agencies. The Research & Analysis Wing, India’s external intelligence agency, raised an alarm in early [...]

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US Department of Defense Tactical Electromagnetic Cyber Warfare: Plant Malware Through the Air

January 18, 2013

Source: Defense News It was right around that time that scientists began to turn their attention to another project: trying to access these protected networks remotely, through the air, by reading activity via electromagnetic field distortions and inserting code via radio frequencies. Accessing these networks — networks that don’t have wireless routers and aren’t connected [...]

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Cyber attack could defeat UK armed forces, MPs warned

January 8, 2013

Source: Scotsman THE armed forces are now so dependent on information technology that their ability to operate could be “fatally compromised” by a sustained cyber attack, MPs warned yesterday. The Commons Defence Committee said the cyber threat to UK security had the ability to evolve at “almost unimaginable speed” and questioned whether the government could [...]

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It’s global cyber war out there

January 3, 2013

Source: AFR Sitting in an office in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s Soviet-style building, which mirrors the Orwellian bunker one might imagine, Australia’s most experienced spy master, David Irvine, has a lot on his mind as he gazes over Lake Burley Griffin. Irvine, the director-general of ASIO, knows Australian business and the government are engaged [...]

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Remember that MP3? The ITU police are en-route

December 10, 2012

Source: Voice of Russia In a very quiet release of information the Internet Warriors and “Hacktivist” Group Anonymous, has informed the world of one of the tools that will be used to bring this about. If you have ever downloaded a song for example, or transferred it to your cute little harmless looking MP3 player, [...]

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U.S. Army Sponsored Artiﬁcial Intelligence Surveillance System Attempts to Predict The Future

October 29, 2012

Source: Forbes In something that looks straight out of the CBS show “Person of Interest“, the science website Phsy.org is reporting on a potentially important breakthrough from researchers at Carnegie Mellon. In research sponsored by the United States Army Research Laboratory, the Carnegie Mellon researchers presented an artiﬁcial intelligence system that can watch and predict what a [...]

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Cyber war targets Middle East oil and gas companies

October 21, 2012

Source: Al Arabiya/AFP Middle Eastern oil and gas companies have been targeted in massive attacks on their computer networks in an increasingly open cyber war where a new virus was discovered just this past week. The United States and Israel, believed to behind the first cyber sabotage campaign that targeted Iran’s nuclear program, are now [...]

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Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week

October 8, 2012

Source: CNBC A single mysterious computer program that placed orders — and then subsequently canceled them — made up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week, according to the top tracker of high-frequency trading activity. The motive of the algorithm is still unclear. The program placed orders in 25-millisecond [...]

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United States linked to computer viruses used for espionage operations and cyber warfare.

September 17, 2012

Source: Reuters Researchers have found evidence suggesting that the United States may have developed three previously unknown computer viruses for use in espionage operations or cyber warfare. The findings are likely to bolster a growing view that the U.S. government is using cyber technology more widely than previously believed to further its interests in the [...]

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Facebook, the CIA, DARPA, and the Tanking IPO

August 22, 2012

Source: IB Times The big infusion of cash that sent Mark Zuckerberg and his fledgling college enterprise on their way came from Accel Partners, in 2004. Jim Breyer, head of Accel, attached a $13 million rocket to Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) , and nothing has ever been the same. Earlier that same year, a man named [...]

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Talk of Military Attack May Be Cover for Cyber War on Iran

August 15, 2012

Source: Arutz Sheva Journalists are scratching their heads to figure out why Israeli and American leaders are leading a daily chatter of a military attack on Iran, but the flow of words may be a ruse to give Iran a double jolt as its deep fear that a cyber war can knock out its nuclear [...]

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Executives advocate a military approach to cybersecurity

August 14, 2012

A new study being released by a private Internet security company highlights cyberworld weaknesses when it comes to gathering intelligence on hackers and suggests that businesses take a more military-minded approach to defense. The cybersecurity company CounterTack polled 100 information security executives at companies with revenues greater than $100 million. Nearly half of the respondents [...]

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Cyber surveillance virus Gauss found in region

August 9, 2012

Dubai: A new cyber surveillance virus, named Gauss, has been found in the Middle East that can spy on financial transactions, email and social networking activity, according to Kaspersky Labs. “The virus is capable of attacking critical infrastructure and has close relations with Flame, the computer worm used to attack Iran,” Vitaly Kamluk, Chief Malware [...]

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