Category: CyberWarfare / ExoWarfare

In the last 10 years, the world has been observing an information revolution in the form of space reconnaissance, showcasing a transition from complex military to user-friendly mainstream. In most cases, the more efficient and advanced mainstream counterpart will then be used to fill existing military needs. Space reconnaissance was, and still is, the most…

U.S. Cyber Command is in the throes of entering its next era. Evolving in fits and starts from its stand up in 2009, the young command has seen the creation of its cyber warrior cadre — the cyber mission force — been fully elevated as a unified combatant command and achieved the full manning and…

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) since its conception has embraced what amounts to a truism in the world of defense: evolving battlefields present war fighters with evolving challenges. It is this philosophy that spawned DARPA’s newest competition. The Subterranean Challenge is a DARPA-hosted technology acquisition program that will work with industry and academia…

A thin metal faceplate is often used to conceal the hole drilled into the front of the ATM. The PIN pad shield pictured here is equipped with a hidden spy camera. [Note: this pertains mostly to US cards with magnetic stripe – the Euro cards with encryption chips are much less prone to this kind…

The Marine Corps is aggressively trying to recruit cyber talent. Beginning in October, all enlisted Marine applicants will be given a cyber test while at a military entrance processing station, according to Capt. Alex Ryan, operations analyst for manpower studies and analysis branch at Manpower and Reserve Affairs. Officer candidates won’t be administered the test.…

Schematic Europe on a screen at Telekom’s Security Operation Center (SOC) in Bonn A cyber defense training pact has been signed by Deutsche Telekom and Germany’s Bundeswehr. Their deal expands a network of commercial and federal information security hubs centered in Bonn. Germany’s telecommunications giant Telekom announced on Tuesday a closer cooperation with the Bundeswehr in…

The new US strategy is called by the Pentagon as “countering, disrupting, degrading and deterring” attacks. With this new approach, the US Treasury Department “has used its cyber sanctions authorities to impose costs on Russia, North Korea, Iran and others for a wide range of behavior.”   The United States is taking off the gloves…

The idea behind the (open-source) Cloudflare Onion Service is to have domain names first resolve to an .onion address, with the browser then asking for a valid certificate to establish an encrypted connection with the host – without running entry, relay, or exit nodes.   Cloudflare on Thursday announced a new service to provide Tor…

For the first time, the NEON Personnel Tracker Solution was used to track personnel within challenging indoor, underground, and urban GPS-denied environments at the Thunderstorm 18-2 Dense Urban and Subterranean Technologies (DUST) Demonstration. The NEON Tracker, developed by TRX Systems, is intended predominantly for tracking first responders and in military operations. The NEON Personnel Tracker…

The Defense Advanced Research Agency announced an $8 million contract modification for the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute to work on a program that develops circuits that be quickly adapted rather than wholesale reinvented. The work is part of DARPA’s Circuit Realization at Faster Timescales (CRAFT) research program. The modification brings the total…

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) awarded spots on a contract worth up to $500 million to eight defense companies and one research organization as part of the agency’s effort to buy research, development, technical, and engineering services for intelligence missions, according to an announcement from the Department of Defense Sept. 14. DIA selected AT&T, Booz…