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Attacks Shouldn't Shake Tech Industry
News This means we could see an acceleration of the transformation Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld has planned.We may be likely to see more spending on ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), precision weapons, defence electronics, NBC...
[September 17, 2001, 16:03]
Australian Army Slams Soldiers' Site
News However, according to Vietnam veteran Glen Barry, the information about military weapons given on the Web site is mild compared to other sources. Information about weapons is very common on the Internet, have a look around, you can even buy them...
[February 26, 2004, 8:20]
Upbeat Y2K Message From MOD
News The report, published on the MOD Web site, claimed all mission critical computer systems, including those controlling weapons, would be compliant by September 1999. Talking about public concern about nuclear accidents, Beckett commented: "Weapons...
[December 9, 1998, 11:59]
US Reveals Plans To Hit Back At Cyber Threats
News Offensive cyberattacks in network warfare make kinetic attacks more effective, [for example] if we take out an adversary's integrated defence systems or weapons systems," said Elder. Elder said that, while he was satisfied with AFCYBER's covert...
[April 2, 2008, 17:27]
Millennium Bug: Erm, We're Not Ready - MOD, Inland Rev.
News There is no question of weapons going off, it would just mean they wouldn't operate properly," he said. MOD spokesman Marcus de Ville admitted critical defence systems still to be made bug-compliant include weapon systems, army vehicles and naval...
[June 18, 1999, 14:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog On the other hand, Gugli was a randy, scheming so-and-so born into a wealthy and very well connected family — grandson of Andrew Jameson, who owned the eponymous Irish whiskey company — who used patents as weapons, preferred publicity over...
[February 3, 2006, 16:55]
Clinton Tackling Cyber Terrorism
News So they are working on two new forms of assault; cyberattacks on our critical computer systems and attacks with weapons of mass destruction -- chemical, biological and potentially even nuclear weapons," Clinton said.
[January 25, 1999, 9:33]
UK Intelligence Dismisses PS2 Missile Fears
News Iraq has imported around 4,000 of Sony PlayStation2 (PS2) consoles, and may be planning to construct military weapons by linking 12 or 15 consoles together, according to Internet news site World Net Daily.
[December 19, 2000, 15:07]
Estonia's Cyberattacks: Lessons Learned, A Year On
News Earlier this month US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff outlined US plans for a cyber "Manhattan Project" to echo the development of nuclear weapons during the Second World War, partly as a response to the attacks on Estonia.
[May 1, 2008, 14:04]
Make Games Not Nukes: DTI Outsources To Russia
News The UK government is hoping an ambitious scheme to outsource UK software development to former Russian nuclear scientists will encourage the weapons experts to remain in-situ rather than seek work with foreign governments or terrorist networks.
[September 2, 2004, 18:00]
Nuclear Lab Bans Wireless Networks
News The lab, which produces research on nuclear weapons and other national defence technologies, disabled the two wireless local area networks that were in use at its Livermore, California, campus as a result of the ban, instituted in mid-January...
[January 31, 2002, 13:21]
Why Microsoft Code Leak Worries Me
Talkback As you mentioned, we might as well release the blueprints of every weapons platform in our defence systems. I'm with you on this one, David. Releasing Windows source code into the wild is just giving ammunition to the idiots who are prepared to...
[February 17, 2004, 12:13]
Indian President Calls For Open-source Defence Software
News Software maintenance and software upgrade is an important issue for defence," Kalam said at a meeting of Indian Navy's Weapons and Electronic System Engineering Establishment in New Delhi last week. Without naming any proprietary software products...
[July 8, 2004, 8:50]
MoD: Tech Scheme Not 'unmitigated Disaster'
News One described the roll out of the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) programme in the infantry guided weapons integrated project team as "an unmitigated disaster". The Ministry of Defence has moved to quash claims that its £4bn Defence...
[November 19, 2007, 10:49]
Nato: Cyber-terrorism Danger Equal To Missile Attack
News Nato's weapons of choice for defence purposes are off-the-shelf virus scanners, intrusion-prevention technology and forensic software, Anil said. Nato's cyber-defence chief has warned that computer-based terrorism poses the same threat to national...
[March 10, 2008, 8:06]
Another Test For The GPL
Blog For that, though, there has to be clarity about what's going on - mysterious threats and untraceable pressures are common weapons against the open movement, and the best defence is openness. You may have seen that another interesting legal wrinkle...
[January 27, 2008, 14:36]
Uncle Spam Needs You
News The battle against junk email, or spam, has numerous allies: Legislators have enacted laws targeting it, trade groups have crafted voluntary guidelines to govern it, and software developers have created weapons of mass deletion to thwart it.
[February 5, 2002, 14:39]
Enterprise, Desktop & Mobile Development: One Big Happy Family Now?
Blog So, that was personal information management development and not weapons-grade plutonium-attack resistant multi-tier military database development then? Mobile email is not ground breaking in itself I know, but this is a company known for...
[July 23, 2008, 12:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That and their program of space weapons that'll blow up anything in orbit they don't like. Well, Star Commander Pat Norris, one of the blokes behind Logica's Space And Defence division, who had a hand in the unfortunate Beagle and is also busy with...
[February 6, 2004, 15:10]
Don't Cry Wolf Over Cyberterror
Talkback At the time of the events, the US Military have admitted the seriousness and that weapons could have been controlled. If anybody does hack into our defence sysem, we need to know at the time, not 3 months later like the US.
[December 8, 2005, 13:50]
