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Ukraine Police Say This is the Source of Tuesday’s Massive Cyber Attack
The lesson from Tuesday’s massive cyber attack, beware of updates from Ukrainian accounting apps that are orders of magnitude larger than normal.
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Ukraine is Ground Zero in a New Global Malware Attack
The quick infection of nearly 300,000 computers worldwide is reportedly due to two software exploits released in April by the hacking group called the Shadow Brokers.
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What's the 'Risk' in China's Investments in US Artificial Intelligence? New Bill Aims to Find Out
Senator's proposal to give feds new powers protect an American technological advantage has more than a few critics.
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Anti-Terrorist Technology Has a New Target: Immigrants
In a trend begun under Obama, the use of gear designed for foreign battlefields is increasingly coming home.
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Detecting Secret Military Exercises With Micro Satellites, a How-To
The future of intelligence is small teams and tiny satellites. It’s not a future the U.S. will own exclusively.
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Why I'm Directing The Air Force to Focus on Space
In the coming months, the US Air Force will grow the space force in numbers and capabilities.
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The Future of Military IT: Gait Biometrics, Software Nets, and Photon Communicators
DISA director Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn talks about the tech he’s eyeing, some of which is barely out of the theoretical realm.
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CIA's Cloud is 'Pretty Close' to Invincible, CIO Says
The agency wants to operate more like commercial companies, not the government, CIA CIO John Edwards said.
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The US Government Is Still Installing Russian Software on Its PCs
The intelligence community is aghast, but the rest of the federal government keeps buying anti-virus tools from Moscow-based Kaspersky.
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It’s Getting Harder to Draw Lessons from Today’s Wars
The researchers compiling the U.S. Army’s accounts of Iraq and Afghanistan have an overwhelming yet spotty volume of material to work through.
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US Air Force Grounds F-35s at Arizona Base
Base officials halted local flights after five pilots experienced symptoms of oxygen deprivation.
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With Qatar Hack, the Kremlin May Be Opening a New Front in Its Global Information War
A fake video slipped onto a government website may have touched off Qatar’s diplomatic isolation.
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The Mysterious Printer Code That May Have Led the FBI to the Alleged NSA Leaker
Many color printers embed grids of dots that allow law enforcement to track every document they output.
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Vladimir Putin and the Little Green Men of the Internet
The future of Kremlin-backed information operations against Western governments looks a lot like Russia's deceptive campaign against Crimea in 2014.
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Veterans Affairs to Adopt DoD’s Electronic Health-Records System
VA will sign onto MHS Genesis platform being developed by Cerner and Leidos under a $4 billion contract.
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Poland Is Preparing for 15 Years of Rising Tension with Russia
The future battles of Eastern Europe will be fought with lasers, cheap missile-drones, and surgical strike units.
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US Intel Community Launches Face-ID Contest
Wanted: algorithms that can identify people from security-camera footage.
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Stinger Missiles Can Now Shoot Down Small Drones
A missile that gained notoriety in the 1980s has been updated for today’s battlefield.
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Tomorrow’s Robots Will Train in Simulators, Just Like Today’s Troops
Several firms are working on training environments like Star Trek’s Holodeck, but for machines.
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