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Australians Track Crack Attempt To US Military
News The Sydney Morning Herald said Humphry confirmed that crackers attempted to get into the database of the nation's stock exchange over the weekend and "broke into another Web site to achieve that objective".
[October 4, 1999, 12:29]
US Military To Adopt Next-gen Internet
News He said department acquisitions taking place after October of this year must be IPv6-compatible in order to help the military gear up for the transition. Stenbit stressed that the military's embrace of IPv6 would be an evolutionary process.
[June 18, 2003, 13:09]
BAE To Develop Secure Mobile Network For US Military
News BAE Systems last week scored a $8.5m (£4.3m) contract with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, to develop an "intrinsically secure" mobile network for military use in planes, ground vehicles, sensor systems — mobile and...
[May 2, 2008, 10:35]
US Reveals Plans To Hit Back At Cyber Threats
News The infrastructure the US military uses to both launch and defend against cyberattacks runs through the public internet system. Air Force Cyber Command (AFCYBER), a US military unit set up in September 2007 to fight in cyberspace, is due to become...
[April 2, 2008, 17:27]
Ray's A Laugh
Blog In its endless inventiveness, the US military has produced an "active denial system" disguised as a cross between a Transformer robot and a microwave oven. But it does no harm, says the US military, and given their track record in harm and its...
[January 26, 2007, 14:13]
Solaris To Enlist Military Security
News Sun Microsystems has revealed that the next release of its Solaris operating system will contain enhanced security features developed through the company's close ties with the US military and intelligence services.
[September 18, 2003, 11:30]
British Man To Be Extradited For US Military Hacks
News This was a grave intrusion into a vital military system computer system at a time when we, as a nation, had to summon all of our defences against further attack," Assistant US Attorney Scott S. The US Department of Justice on Tuesday indicted a...
[November 13, 2002, 9:10]
Galileo Project 'hindering' Phone Sat-nav Rollout
News The only GNSS currently in action is GPS, the American system designed and run by the US military. That view was echoed by Professor Jonathan Raper of City University, an authority on geographical information systems and location-based services...
[January 22, 2007, 10:44]
E-voting 'risks Fraud'
News The report comes as the US Department of Defense prepares to launch the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), a system that will let absentee military voters in 50 counties in seven states place their votes; the...
[January 22, 2004, 7:15]
Training The Cyberwar Troops
News The exercise wasn't limited to just the US military. Systems administrator David Riebrandt's first hint that intruders had hacked the military network came from telltale electronic footprints. Valter Monteiro, a lieutenant commander with the...
[April 29, 2002, 12:38]
Slip On A Bulletproof PC
News But military and police have become increasingly interested in using the systems to feed intelligence and other data to soldiers and officers in the field, creating demand for a system that can withstand major abuse and possible enemy fire.
[May 31, 2002, 8:42]
Nasa Hacker: Whistleblower Or Menace?
News According to Bevan, McKinnon's case shows that "in a decade, the USA military has not learned, or at worst, has blatantly ignored the security threats around them, when it is they who tell us every day that we should be afraid".
[May 12, 2006, 12:35]
Witty 'probably An ISS Inside Job'
News They found that the worm was most probably launched from a server at a European ISP and that it was set up to target systems at a US military base. All of these 110 systems were at a single US military installation, the researchers found.
[May 26, 2005, 16:15]
NASA Hacker To Speak At Security Show
News The prosecution produced an unsigned note from the US Embassy, which they claimed was a guarantee that McKinnon would not be tried under Military Order Number One. The Order allows suspected terrorists to be tried under military law, or held...
[April 13, 2006, 18:05]
Hackers: Uncle Sam Wants You!
News Department of Defence and military officials turned a hacker conference into a recruiting drive Friday, trying to woo the best and the brightest into becoming security experts. While the noise from script kiddies causes much of the consternation...
[July 31, 2000, 10:28]
US Army Aims To Take P2P Into Battle
News The US army is developing ways to integrate wireless peer-to-peer technology into its training methods, and is also considering using P2P networking in real military combat situations. It believes that by linking together hundreds of soldiers, each...
[August 30, 2001, 15:13]
NakedWife Virus Spreads From US Military
News A virus advertising itself as an e-mailed photo of someone's wife has started infecting computers in Europe and the United States and may have started spreading from the US military, according to antivirus experts.
[March 7, 2001, 8:34]
Linux Considered For GPS Rival
News Infrastructure for the European rival to the US military Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system could include systems based around open-source software, including Linux, according to one of the project's main contractors.
[February 6, 2004, 12:00]
SuSE Linux Wins Security Clearance
News Linux seller SuSE and server maker IBM have obtained a crucial security certification that will make the operating system an option for demanding military and government customers, the companies are expected to announce on Tuesday.
[August 5, 2003, 12:10]
Plan Continuity Like The US Army
Talkback My own experiances with non US military versions of this system are that whilst still useful they are mostly buerocractic waste paper. So to sumerise it'd be nice but I don't think you will have much luck getting this kinda system off the ground...
[October 20, 2006, 11:59]
