Security News

Exercise Tracking App Reveals Details of Military Sites
2018-01-29 09:43

A map showing paths taken by users of an exercise tracking app reveals potentially sensitive information about American and allied military personnel in places including Afghanistan, Iraq and...

U.S. Military to Send Cyber Soldiers to the Battlefield
2017-12-14 02:38

The US Army will soon send teams of cyber warriors to the battlefield, officials said Wednesday, as the military increasingly looks to take the offensive against enemy computer networks. read more

Leaky AWS Storage Bucket Spills Military Secrets, Again
2017-11-28 22:11

For the second time in ten days, researchers at UpGuard released sensitive data belonging to the United States Defense Department that was stored insecurely online.

Military Contractor’s Vendor Leaks Resumes in Misconfigured AWS S3 (Threatpost)
2017-09-05 16:16

Thousands of resumes and job applications from U.S. military veterans, law enforcement, and others were leaked by a recruiting vendor in an unsecured AWS S3 bucket.

Military Robots as a Nature Analog (Schneier on Security)
2017-08-25 11:34

This very interesting essay looks at the future of military robotics and finds many analogs in nature: Imagine a low-cost drone with the range of a Canada goose, a bird that can cover 1,500 miles...

US Cyber Command gets unified military command status (Help Net Security)
2017-08-23 19:19

Last week, US President Donald Trump announced that the United States Cyber Command, which is currently a division of the NSA, will be elevated to the status of a Unified Combatant Command focused...

U.S. Military to Create Separate Unified Cyber Warfare Command (Security Week)
2017-08-18 17:11

President Donald Trump ordered the US military on Friday to elevate its cyber warfare operations to a separate command, signaling a new strategic emphasis on electronic and online offensive and...

25-Year-Old Hacker Pleads Guilty to Hacking U.S. Military Satellite Phone System (The Hackers News)
2017-06-16 01:43

A British computer hacker who allegedly hacked a United States Department of Defense satellite system in 2014 and accessed the personal information of hundreds of military personnel has pleaded...

U.S. Defense Contractor Exposes Sensitive Military Data (Security Week)
2017-06-01 09:22

Sensitive data belonging to the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) was left exposed on the Internet by defense and intelligence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, a security firm...