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US military invests in 'active' RFID
News Supply problems did not cause any battlefield deaths in either conflict, according to Alan Estevez, assistant deputy undersecretary of defence for supply chain integration at the Pentagon. In early April, Estevez will be part of a Pentagon...
[March 23, 2004, 13:25]
Hackers split over vigilante strikes
News Groups of online vandals and hackers are split over how to respond to this week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, with some Internet vigilantes calling for an assault on perceived terrorist sites and others pleading...
[September 17, 2001, 9:32]
Americans reject antiterrorism database
News The US House of Representatives has approved a spending bill that eliminates money for the Terrorism Information Awareness project, effectively putting an end to the controversial Pentagon antiterrorism plan, which sought to assemble computerised...
[September 26, 2003, 9:15]
Photos: The Symantec bunker
News For photos of one of the UK's other leading security firms at work, click here for our look inside Sophos' Pentagon. Click here to see our photos of the inside of Sophos' Pentagon. The Symantec bunker was built by the UK government in the early...
[November 25, 2005, 12:15]
US Government Web tracking under scrutiny
News The Pentagon said it wasn't aware that its popular Defenselink.mil portal tracked visitors — in violation of a privacy notice — and said it would fix the problem. A visitor to the Pentagon's Web site could be identified as the same person who...
[January 5, 2006, 14:05]
US official: We are under cyberattack all the time
News In a series of spy attacks, hackers stole information about the Pentagon's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project and the Air Force's air-traffic control system, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday.
[April 22, 2009, 9:51]
Disaster recovery planning must take all angles into account
News Baradet, like several other Corporate Partners contacted for their reactions to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, said disaster recovery plans are meaningless if they don't account...
[September 14, 2001, 12:02]
Screen Compass
Downloads Radius, Circumference and Area measurements - Use keyboard controls to measure precisely - Measure in pixels, inches or define your own units - 37 different polygons to measure, including triangle, square and pentagon.
[March 13, 2006, 7:00]
GPS is ready for business use
News During a brainstorming session at the Pentagon, several of the DOD's top scientists conceived a system. To minimise the potential for abuse, the Pentagon instituted a dual-broadcasting system by which it would transmit encrypted, accurate signals...
[March 18, 2003, 12:11]
Clinton calls for Internet-security summit
News Indeed, Washington is spending billions of dollars a year on critical infrastructure protection, with most of the money so far going to the Pentagon. Craig Quigley, a Pentagon spokesman, said the check of nearly 10,000 military networks is cautionary.
[February 14, 2000, 9:44]
Internet voting gets stamp of approval
News Last week, the Pentagon scrapped plans to permit service members and other Americans living overseas to cast their votes online. But Michigan had begun accepting online votes weeks before the Pentagon's announcement, which would have complicated...
[February 10, 2004, 10:30]
News Roundup: Attack on America
News Friday 14th September Consumer watchdogs warn that con artists are concocting online frauds to profit from the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon Wednesday 12th September Web sites are set up for reports, information and support...
[September 12, 2001, 13:10]
'Infowarfare' part of NATO arsenal?
News A spokesperson for the Pentagon refused to comment on the NATO strategy, saying such tactics are top-secret during a continuing conflict. You need to be able to extract certain elements of information to disrupt radio frequencies or telephone...
[March 26, 1999, 9:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Pentagon, which has an avowed intent to unilaterally control space (none of this namby-pamby 'for all mankind' nonsense these days, mate), has let it be known that it's perfectly prepared to blow the Galileo satellites out of the sky if it...
[July 15, 2005, 19:00]
Code Red sets off new alarms
News Pentagon closes Web sites to guard against worm Pentagon: Sites secure against Code Red The Code Red worm relaunched itself on Wednesday morning, leaving government and private security experts to debate over how much impact it is having.
[July 31, 2001, 15:42]
British man to be extradited for US military hacks
News The Pentagon, for example, has cited as many as 250,000 attacks in a single year. In 1997, two California teenagers and a trio of Israeli hackers were arrested for hacking into Pentagon servers. McKinnon is believed to have attacked the Earle Naval...
[November 13, 2002, 9:10]
US budgets $1bn for homeland security IT
News If HSarpa sounds strikingly similar to the Pentagon's Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, it's no accident. More recently, Darpa was involved in the Pentagon's proposal to build an online futures market for terrorist attacks...
[August 1, 2003, 8:50]
Date set for McKinnon extradition judicial review
Blog Gary McKinnon, the man accused of hacking Nasa and Pentagon computers, will have his oral judicial review hearing on 20 Jan, according to the Free Gary McKinnon website. The judicial review will decide whether to overturn Jacqui Smith's decision...
[December 2, 2008, 17:22]
US abandons Internet voting
News The Pentagon will scrap the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) until the current system can guarantee the security of the voting process or a new system is designed, a Defense Department spokesperson said.
[February 6, 2004, 8:55]
Air Semiconductor gets snappy with GPS
Blog Comment I think Rupert means adjacent to spook central is referring to North Carolina is adjacent to the pentagon. The military certainly would fall over themselves to reduce the size of their batteries esp.for the location technology they invented.
[March 11, 2009, 16:07]
