Author: Thomas J Ackermann

Many leading military technology advances have been achieved during 2018.  US Army scientists and army sponsored researches have succeeded in developing intriguing technologies supporting the soldier of the future.  Dr. Alexander Kott, Chief Scientist of the RDECOM Research Laboratory, the Army’s corporate research laboratory (ARL), which focuses on innovation to ensure dominant strategic land power,…

A watchdog agency report says that the U.S. government and its infrastructure remain vulnerable in at least a thousand ways to cyberattacks   The U.S. government has gotten pretty good, or at least pretty productive, over the past couple of decades at laying out, in multiple reports, plans, strategies and initiatives under multiple presidents, what…

Researchers have invented a liquid isomer that can store and release solar energy. The team has solved problems other researchers have previously encountered. The discovery could lead to more widespread use of solar energy. In the last year, a team from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, essentially figured out how to bottle solar energy. They…

Cybersecurity CEO Robert Herjavec. PHOTO: Cybercrime Magazine.   The rapid digital transformation and IoT will increase the risk. Great quote: “What people don’t get about the threat landscape is, it’s less about the techniques and more about the attack surface, and the number of openings that have been created.” — Trols Oerting   The Internet,…

James Mattis will leave his post as the secretary of defense at the end of February.   Gen James Mattis, the highly regarded chief of 3 million DoD personnel, steps down Secretary of Defense James Mattis resigned on Thursday, writing in an unsparing letter that he was stepping down because the president had “the right…

Gen. Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command   The Pentagon has received more power to conduct cyber operations in the past 18 months. But for the top Army commander in the Middle East and Central Asia, the new authority is not enough. The head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Joseph Votel, wrote in a…

The Marines are looking to big data analysis and potentially an IBM Watson-like machine or software to help conduct complex wargaming and plan for future battles in an immersive environment. The Corps’ Program Manager for Wargaming Capability, Col. Ross Monta, told Marine Corps Times that a recent program announcement seeks to “bring advanced analytics, visualization,…

Algorithm tested against the text CAPTCHA systems used on 33 popular websites. Academics from UK and China have developed a new machine learning algorithm that can break text-based CAPTCHA systems with less effort, faster, and with higher accuracy than all previous methods. This new algorithm -developed by scientists from Lancaster University (UK), Northwest University (China),…

By Natalia Drozdiak – December 19, 2018   The European Union is investigating “a potential leak of sensitive information” following a report that hackers breached the bloc’s diplomatic communications network. Using techniques similar to those used by an elite unit of China’s People’s Liberation Army, hackers downloaded cables over a period of three years, according…

This is a good, needed and depressive read. I quote: ‘Only 3 in 1000 cyber incidents see an arrest’ and ‘Malicious cyber actors are rarely caught and the effort to do so is uncoordinated, under-resourced, and under-prioritised’. — Troels Oerting There are so many things which can be done practically and right now: such as…

Zwischen Russlands Einmischung in den US-Wahlkampf und der Internetüberwachung durch NSA und GCHQ gibt es Parallelen: Amerikaner und Briten machten das physische Netz zur Waffe, die Russen seine Anwendungen. Eine Analyse von Patrick Beuth – 18 DEC 2018 Als 2013 die Snowden-Enthüllungen begannen, war die Fachwelt keineswegs von der Tatsache überrascht, dass westliche Geheimdienste das…