By SeanLawson Today, the United States Department of Justice indicted five Chinese military officers related to alleged cyber espionage against U.S. companies. At the same time, John T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems, sent a letter to President Obama arguing that NSA efforts to undermin...
By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: I’ve referenced before my participation on the board of Centripetal Networks, and their ability to deliver large scale commercial solutions of MITRE’s IBIP are an area I am particularly proud of. – bg Over the last several years The MITRE Corporation has pub...
By ShannonPerry Since the bug became public knowledge in early April, the Heartbleed vulnerability has captured media headlines across the U.S. The hole existed in OpenSSL, an open-source program used by hundreds of thousands of websites. The bug affected some of the world’s most popular sites, in...
The U.S. Coast Guard provided industry with very detailed and useful information to help industry help them via the Coast Guard Intelligence Industry Day. The Coast Guard fully supported this event by sending all their key leaders to brief industry on their requirements and upcoming opportunities. ...
In the 20th century, science fiction writers imagined incredible futuristic technologies – inventions like lab-grown organs and driverless cars, teleportation and space colonization, robots that take care of our sick and DNA manipulation of unborn children. In our century, technological achievemen...
By ShannonPerry Throughout 2012, Iran targeted United States banks and companies with a series of distributed denial-of-services cyber attacks. The attacks doubled and sometimes tripled the amount of traffic that the American websites were capable of handling. Many considered the attacks retaliation...
By Bob Gourley Friends at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies recently brought this to our attention and since a high number of our readers live their lives studying or working with advanced technologies we wanted to get this to you right away. The threat of improvised explosive devices (IED)...
By SeanLawson Recently, several news outlets reported on a supposed plot by a Moroccan national to use remote controlled model airplanes as flying bombs. The story seems to lend credibility to speculation that model airplanes could be the next terrorist threat. In reality, however, these fears are p...