US reveals plans to hit back at cyber threats
News The US Air Force Cyber Command is developing capabilities to inflict denial of service, confidential data loss, data manipulation, and system integrity loss on its adversaries, and to combine these with physical attacks, according to a senior US...
[April 2, 2008, 17:27]
DoD may announce Cyber Command
Blog What I've heard is that when the Air Force Cyber Command was proposed over a year ago, the DoD asked the Air Force not to go ahead with the plans, as Cyber Command was a DoD level problem and should not be controlled by individual services.
[March 13, 2009, 16:19]
Hill Air Force Base Detects and Eliminates Over 500,000 Pests With eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware
White Papers Hill Air Force Base (Hill AFB) is an Air Force Materiel Command base located in northern Utah. Hill AFB's need for an anti-spyware solution to protect their large network was twofold. First, users were receiving excess popup ads and other spyware...
[May 4, 2006, 0:00]
Over the Reich
Downloads Army Air Force, Royal Air Force, or German Luftwaffe. Over the Reich is a strategy and role-playing game of air combat over Germany during World War 2, 1943-1945, when supercharged fighter planes and 20-millimeter cannon ruled the skies.
[February 17, 1999, 6:00]
US air defenders choose Blade PCs
News The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, is nearly finished converting from using standard desktop PCs to blade PCs from ClearCube Technology in its Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station (CMAFS), said Garland Garcia, network chief at...
[April 18, 2005, 8:55]
Pentagon and hackers in 'cyberwar'
News Among the computers targeted were those of the Air Intelligence Agency, the Air Force Information Warfare Centre and a Joint Chiefs of Staff command-and-control operation. For two days in January, hackers repeatedly tapped into military computers...
[March 5, 1999, 16:30]
A Year Ago: Pentagon and hackers in 'cyberwar'
News Among the computers targeted were those of the Air Intelligence Agency, the Air Force Information Warfare Centre and a Joint Chiefs of Staff command-and-control operation. New technology developed by the Navy did detect the attacks on Kelly Air...
[March 6, 2000, 6:09]
Start-up brings 'blades' to the desktop
News The report from Hill Air Force Base has been submitted to the Air Force Medical Support Agency, the purchasing arm for the medical unit, which will determine whether these systems can be purchased on a nationwide basis.
[September 23, 2002, 8:27]
Hackers: Uncle Sam wants you!
News Other high-level officials from the Air Force, the DoD and the Federal Computer Incident Response Centre joined him in addressing the crowd, and they didn't pull their punches. Trust won't come easily, said Jim Christy, special assistant for law...
[July 31, 2000, 10:28]
Security experts lift lid on Chinese hack attacks
News From the Redstone Arsenal, home to the Army Aviation and Missile Command, the attackers grabbed specs for the aviation mission-planning system for Army helicopters, as well as Falconview 3.2, the flight-planning software used by the Army and Air...
[November 23, 2005, 16:05]
UK launches dedicated cybersecurity agency
News The model for the OCS is similar to that in the US, which plans to quadruple the number of security experts defending against cyberattack, while cyber-offense capabilities are currently under the aegis of the US Air Force.
[June 25, 2009, 10:00]
US airmen get Xbox Live in Europe
News The Air Force said it chose the Xbox for its superior online gaming capabilities. The US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) have paid $200,000 (£126,000) to outfit 14 bases around the continent with 17 Xbox Live gaming centres, as a way of giving young...
[July 25, 2003, 11:46]
Cisco Wi-Fi access point flaw lets snoopers in
News Vulnerable access points will transmit security keys over the air in unencrypted text, meaning that an eavesdropper could intercept them. The devices are only affected when the "snmp-server enable traps wlan-wep" command is enabled, and does not...
[December 4, 2003, 11:25]
Iridium takes final step into space
News The final five satellites of the fleet launched atop a Boeing Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Monday, following three aborted attempts due to weather and instrumentation problems.
[February 12, 2002, 14:26]
PCs turn to PC blades to improve reliability
News He said: "We paid a premium to get the blades but, when we looked at the total cost, the benefits became viable financially because we saved a bit on the air conditioning plant. The user keeps their monitor, keyboard, mouse and a small user port...
[May 18, 2006, 13:30]
British man to be extradited for US military hacks
News The second indictment charged McKinnon with breaking into systems belonging to the US Army, US Navy, the US Air Force, the US Department of Defense and NASA, as well as six corporate computers. McKinnon is believed to have attacked the Earle Naval...
[November 13, 2002, 9:10]
Sir Michael's five-point plan for BT's future
Leader Someone with technical chops, political nous, the force of personality to unite the unruly tribes under his command, and a taste for partnerships. It doesn't matter what acronyms are involved: build a network that can cope with anything — a 21CN of...
[February 20, 2007, 12:32]
RAF comms deal takes off
News The Royal Air Force is set for a communications upgrade, following the signing of a £45m deal between the Ministry of Defence and supplier BAE Systems Insyte. The contract, signed on Friday, is an extension of the armed forces' Falcon...
[September 28, 2007, 15:33]
Pentagon forks out $100m for cyberattack cleanup
News The important thing is that we recognise that we are under assault from the least sophisticated — what I would say the bored teenager — all the way up to the sophisticated nation-state, with some petty criminal elements sandwiched in between," Air...
[April 8, 2009, 9:41]
