Category: CyberWarfare / ExoWarfare

A simultaneous dual engine failure on modern twin engine commercial airliners is one of the rarest events in aviation. Rare or not, that’s exactly what happened to ANA flight NH985 when it touched down at Osaka Itami (ITM) on Jan. 17. The pilots completed the touchdown and were rolling down the runway when they realized…

The Rippel Effect Systems grenade launcher for drones was on display at the 2019 IDEX show. (Navy photo)   The first grenades dropped from drones were an improvised experiment. Like the haphazard scouts of the 1910s who first chucked bombs out of cockpits onto foes below, the quadcopter grenade bombers were hardly a standardized tool…

The Department of Defense will now have the time to investigate information concerning a conflict of interest between two former employees and the $10 billion cloud contract. (BrianAJackson) Judge grants stay of lawsuit to investigate JEDI conflicts of interest An Oracle lawsuit challenging the Department of Defense’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract…

by Steingarts Morning Briefing – 21 FEB 2019 Die Friedensdividende, die Ost und West nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion genossen hatten, ist damit aufgezehrt. Wir erleben die Rückkehr archaischer Machtpolitik, die davon ausgeht, dass nicht der Klügere, sondern der technologisch Schwächere nachgibt. Trumps Amerika, sagt Prof. Peter R. Neumann, Sicherheitsexperte am Londoner King’s College im Morning…

[Privacy Ignorance: how can you “forget” you put a microphone in it?] Google said there’s absolutely, positively nothing to worry about the secret microphone in your Nest Secure smart home hub that it didn’t tell you about. Nope, not at all. Just an oversight, said Google. No need to be alarmed. Everything is just fine.…

Zahl der offenen Stellen steigt sprunghaft an von  Frauke Suhr, 20.02.2019 Die Zahl der offenen Stellen in Deutschland hat ein Rekordhoch erreicht. Wie das IAB-Forschungsinstitut der Bundesagentur für Arbeit heute meldete, gab es trotz Konjunkturschwäche im vierten Quartal 2018 einen neuen Höchstwert von 1,46 Millionen offenen Stellenangeboten. Im Westen waren 1,13 Millionen Stellen frei und…

Die deutsche Volkswirtschaft in Gänze braucht sich davon nicht angesprochen zu fühlen. 2018 wurde mit 294 Milliarden US-Dollar und damit 7,4 Prozent des BIP wieder der weltgrößte Exportüberschuss erzielt. Die USA sind erneut das Land mit dem größten Leistungsbilanzdefizit von rund 455 Milliarden US-Dollar. Damit vergrößerte sich das amerikanische Minus um fünf Milliarden Dollar. Die…

By Edward J. Hawkins, II Contributor, InCyberDefense Once you’ve successfully completed the physical security of your environment, it is time to examine its logical security. Logical security should reflect the administrative security of the environment. It is the mapping of the administrative security to its logical counterparts. For example, if an administrative policy says that…

Rear Adm. Christian Becker, head of Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, speaks at West 2018. (U.S. Naval Institute)   The Navy’s primary IT organization is renaming its subordinate centers to better reflect the reality of information warfare. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Commander Rear Adm. Christian Becker told an audience Feb. 13 at…

[This is just a log of the news by AFP] By AFP on February 14, 2019 Germany is to join the ranks of NATO countries making its cyber warfare skills available to the alliance to help fight hacking and electronic warfare, officials said on Thursday. NATO has designated cyberspace as a conflict domain alongside land,…

GPS technology has revolutionized modern warfare. Military organizations regularly depend on satellite technology for accurate positioning, timing and communications. But GPS signals received on Earth are weak and susceptible to interference and intentional jamming. GPS Anti-Jamming uses power minimization to reduce the effect of interference and jamming so that the GPS receiver can continue to…

The U.S. will sell India equipment similar to the one used on the two ‘Air Force One’ Boeing 747 aircraft that carry the US president. The deal includes two Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures Self-Protection Suites (SPS) for VIP jets. The systems consist of AN/AAQ 24(V)N Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) ALQ-211(V)8 Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic…

Large drone markets are currently restrained by the complexity of common drone solutions implementation, due to various considerations regarding risk to the public. For the first time in Europe, the Directorate-General for Civil Aviation (DGAC) which regulates drones uses in France, has approved a fully-automated drone with no pilot, an unprecedented approval since any authorized…

von  Mathias Brandt   15.02.2019 1,4 Milliarden Smartphones wurden laut IDC 2018 weltweit abgesetzt – das entspricht einem Rückgang von 4,1 Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahr. Schuld sind unter anderem die hohe Verbreitung und der Mangel an echten Innovationen. “Der Smartphone-Markt ist derzeit weltweit ein Durcheinander”, so Ryan Reith, Vice President von IDC, und verweist auf…

Deutschland steht vor einer historisch bedeutsamen Transformation. Digitalisierung und Elektrifizierung werden jeden zweiten Arbeitsplatz nicht vernichten, aber doch so grundlegend verändern, dass es viele als Vernichtung ihres bisherigen Status und Veränderung ihrer Routinen empfinden werden.     Vor allem die deutsche Autoindustrie, wo sich die Geister der Veränderung auf dem Fabriksgelände begegnen, wird zum Schauplatz…