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French naval contractor DCNS said on Wednesday it may have been the victim of “economic warfare” after secrets about its Scorpene submarines being built in India were leaked. India opened an investigation after The Australian newspaper published documents relating to the submarine’s combat capabilities, raising concerns over another major contract with Australia. The leak contains […]
Short Bytes: A teen from Washington hacked the websites of US Department of Defence. But, instead of going to prison, he was thanked by the Pentagon for the work he did. This is because he was a participant of a bug bounty program titled Hack The Pentagon. David Dworken spent hours to crack down the […]
South Korea had its Air Force website hacked — While the investigations are underway some consider North Korea as the culprit! The official website of South Korean Air Force (airforce.mil.kr) was shut down for two weeks after a massive cyber attack hit its server. On 12th May 2016, the air force website was found infected with a […]
The Squad X program will help the military to identify enemies even at night by using unmanned aerial vehicles’ scanning capability and robots following them The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has kicked off its Squad X Core Technologies program in a bid to try and improve soldiers and Marines situational awareness in treacherous and […]
Pentagon has agreed that it will be extending official military honours to remote military personnel like military hackers or drone pilots after a plan to have their own medals was dismissed, a report from NYT. When the Defence Department’s 2013 plan to honour remote military personnel like drone pilots and military hackers with separate medals […]
U.S Defense Department, as well as its security agencies, have always wanted UK style hoverbikes that although perform all the functions that a helicopter generally does but don’t have those inherent problems of helicopters. Reportedly, to make their dream come true, U.S Defense Department has stricken a deal with British and American engineers, giving them […]
A new headset is being developed by the BAE Systems Plc, which will merge thermal imaging and night vision to make night time patrolling and targeting more convenient for soldiers. The US branch of the BAE Systems Plc, British defense giant, is currently busy in developing a different kind of headset that will offer a […]
Unhackable Drone Helicopters a must have for the Pentagon before 2018 – The Pentagon is looking for unhackable drone helicopters to avoid getting pwned through cyber attacks. An unavoidable expense of modern warfare is losing a few UAVs to the enemy forces. However, there is a vast difference between losing a Scan Eagle and saying the […]
US energy, defense and educational institutions are the top targets of a possible sophisticated cyber attack from the Iranian hackers, says a confidential document from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Cylance Inc, a cyber security firm, had also flagged this cyber hacking operation last week aiming critical infrastructure worldwide. Dubbed as “Operation Cleaver”, it […]
A possibility that Muslim hackers could have compromised the IsraelDefense magazine (www.israeldefense.com) database and its website, to launch the recent SMS attack on Israelis, is being explored, according to Times of Israel. It’s not clear if that database was the source of the phone numbers used in the SMS ‘attack,’ but there were no reports of […]
Hackers breached the Israeli Defense Ministry Computer through malicious software attached email, according to an Israeli cyber security firm on Sunday. The email looked as if it was sent by the Israel Security Agency, Shin Bet. Palestinians were suspected to be behind the attack because it was similar to the year-ago assault on Israeli computers […]
The official website of Nigerian Ministry of Defence (http://www.mod.gov.ng/) has been hacked and defaced by world renowned hackers from Moroccan Ghosts hacking group. The site was hacked just few minutes ago, where the home page was left with a deface page along with a message. The page shows that site was defaced for an ongoing Sahara desert dispute […]