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Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers
In May, the Justice Department told Americans to reboot their routers. But there's more to do — and NSA says it's up to device makers and the public.
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California Is Automating Cyber-Threat Information Sharing
The state wants to add every city and county government to its automated threat feed program in the next three to four years.
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Why NSA Has Its Eye on ‘Girls Who Code’
‘The future workforce needs to be representative of our nation,’ says the spy agency’s new director.
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Pence Makes Hard Sell For Trump's Space Force by 2020
The administration wants a new military service branch, but space mission's future in the Pentagon and Congress is far from certain.
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Flaw in Some Satellite Communication Terminals Can Expose US Troops’ Location
Vulnerabilities in certain brands of communications terminals can be used to access GPS data on forward-deployed troops.
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The Future Airman is a Hacker
Air Force recruiters will prize computer skills more highly, while the service will encourage airmen to experiment with their own solutions.
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Pentagon Prohibits Personnel From Using GPS Services in All ‘Operational Areas’
The device-agnostic policy applies to smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers, smartwatches and all other applications with geolocation features.
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Who’s Leading the Western Response to Russia’s Warbots? Estonia
A European leader in robotic autonomy turns its attention to the battlefield.
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New Defense One eBook: Defense Technology
AI, bugbots, space planes, tunnels...and just a bit more.
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Mike Pence’s Cybersecurity Speech, Annotated
The vice president delivered a fiery campaign-style cybersecurity speech at a Homeland Security cyber conference Tuesday. Here’s an explainer.
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How A Human Resources System Could Revolutionize the Army
Army program managers took a mandate to upgrade the service’s payment systems and turned it into a way to unearth soldiers’ hidden talents.
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How Russian Hackers Amplified the Seth Rich Conspiracy Until it Reached Donald Trump and the CIA
A new report claims that Russian hackers altered dates in stolen documents to frame the DNC staffer for the theft.
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Cargo Bases in Space: Air Force General Wants Them Within a Decade
The service’s mobility chief is already talking with SpaceX and other companies about the possibilities of orbiting supply dumps.
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Surveillance Cameras Will Soon Divine Your Personality from Eye Movements
Machine-learning techniques promise to make biometric data far more useful for intelligence gathering.
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Kremlin Hackers Take Aim at the Swiss Lab That’s Working the Skripal Poisoning Case
The group that attacked Ukraine's power grid is phishing a chemical-weapons lab critical to the Skripal case.
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Satellite Imagery + Social Media = A New Way to Spot Emerging Nuclear Threats
A research team is training computers to find and fuse clues from wildly different rivers of digital data.
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China Is Still Stealing America’s Business Secrets, US Officials Say
The 2015 agreement between Xi and Obama produced only a lull in Beijing’s economic espionage.
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Bidding Begins for Pentagon's Controversial $10 Billion War Cloud
The Defense Department will stick to a single cloud provider for its JEDI cloud contract.
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