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A technology company competing for a Pentagon contract has links to an organization related to a Russian oligarch The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud is a Pentagon project focused on the U.S. defense’s confidential information protection that could ultimately store even nuclear codes. According to experts in digital forensics from the International Institute of […]
DF-ST-87-06962 The program will now consider physical systems flaws reports Cybersecurity and digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that the Department of Defense is in the process of expanding its vulnerability bounty program, known as “Hack the Pentagon”, to include its hardware assets, leveraging the platforms Synack, HackerOne and Bugcrowd to attract […]
The US Department of Defense has begun to notify victims of this incident involving military and civilian personnel The US Department of Defense has revealed that a security breach has exposed the travel records of at least 30k people, as reported by specialists in digital forensics from the International Institute of Cyber Security. “On October […]
Pentagon Discloses Data Breach of Defense Department travel records last Friday, more than 30,000 workers have been affected. The compromised data contains personal information, credit card data of U.S. military and civilian personnel. The Pentagon official said the breach is under investigation and no classified information was compromised. The breach appeared to happen some months […]
This new policy involves smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers and any other device or app whit GPS features The Department of Defense has recently launched an order banning all personnel from using any GPS services, in personal or job-issued devices, in all “operational areas”. This measure, applying to smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers and any other device […]
Pentagon Data Leak, other three Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage buckets that contain social media surveillance data configured in the way that users with free AWS account can read and download the contents. Leaked data consist of billions of public internet posts, news commentary and other writings from individuals from the US and other […]
Trove included more than 1.8 billion posts spanning eight years, many from US people. A Pentagon contractor left a vast archive of social-media posts on a publicly accessible Amazon account in what appears to be a military-sponsored intelligence-gathering operation that targeted people in the US and other parts of the world. The three cloud-based storage […]
According to the new report, the US news agency for the US Security Contractors without a password on the file sensitive to Amazon’s public server experience was issued by the country’s top daily newspaper. Upgrading Computer Threats analyst Chris Sale’s cache intelligence agency (Aina Jie), a US military research project at 60,000 Amazon’s Amazon storage […]
The Pentagon has known about the problem for 8 months. The U.S. Department of Defense could be at risk of being attacked by hackers quite easily, one security researcher warns. According to ZDNet, who cites Dan Tentler, founder of cybersecurity firm Phobos Group, several misconfigured servers run by the DoD could allow hackers easy access […]
Hackers contracted by the DoD under the Hack the Pentagon initiative have found more than 100 vulnerabilities exceeding Government’s expectations. Do you remember the ‘Hack the Pentagon‘ initiative? ‘Hack the Pentagon’ is the initiative launched by the US Government this year to test the resilience to cyber attacks of the US defenses. The Pentagon has launched the […]
After momentary calmness, the Pentagon has planned to double the number of U.S. drone flights by 2019. This increment would help military chiefs with an increased access to the intelligence while improving their firepower. This bold step has raised concerns about the forthcoming military drone strikes. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/surveillance-drones-now-being-deployed-on-german-railway-stations/”]This Aerial Assault Drone Can Hack Computers Inside […]
Short Bytes: In a recent cyberattack at Pentagon, Russian hackers are being suspected as the key players. This attack was launched around July 25, affecting about 4,000 military and civilian personnel. Pentagon officials told that the attack involved “new and unseen approaches into the network.” The cyber-rivalry of Russia and the U.S. is well known. Turning […]
Recently, Pentagon allowed involvement of gays in the military. But, U.S defense department do look much satisfied by the involvement of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Due to this they blocked a number of sites with lesbian contents. The block was made on all the internal computers that were used by the department […]