U.s. Army
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Are P2P networks leaking military secrets?
News New blog is posting what purport to be soldiers' pictures and documents, all allegedly downloaded from file-sharing networks.
Tags: Networking, Peer to peer
Apple sells supercomputer sequel
News U.S. Army contractor snaps up US$5.8 million, 1,566-server supercomputer, as Mac maker angles for its share of the market.
Open-source antivirus tech may get commercial help
News eEye Digital Security may adopt and improve the open-source Clam AntiVirus technology to add to its intrusion-prevention product.
Tags: Security, Open source
Report: Turkish hackers breached US Army servers
News Investigators believe hackers used an SQL injection attack to break into U.S. Army servers and redirect visitors to other sites, according to report.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Network security, Security Management, SQL, Server, U.S. Army, SQL Injection, Turkey, Oklahoma
Report: U.S. army to sink US$50M into combat training games
News The U.S. army is preparing to invest millions into combat training games and systems, in a move to prepare its soldiers for battle.
Tags: Games, Defense/military, Training, Video, U.S. Army, News.com, Air Force, United States Coast Guard, homeland defense, blog
CSC wins outsourcing contract for U.S. Army
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DOJ charges teen with Pentagon hacking
News A Wisconsin teenager has been arrested and charged for allegedly hacking into a Pentagon computer in June and illegally accessing a U.S. Army computer, according to the Department of Justice.
Security experts lift lid on Chinese hack attacks
News Hackers for the Chinese government stole U.S. military secrets, security experts allege.
Tags: Security, Network security, Hacking, Security Management
U.S. spammer faces up to two years in jail
News Man charged with sending millions of spam messages over high-profile company networks in violation of the Can-Spam Act.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Lawsuits
U.S. Army starts fund for portable power
News Taking a page from the corporate world's book, the U.S. Army is launching a venture capital plan it hopes will lead to better portable power for soldiers.
iRobot rival succumbs in court battles
News Established defense contractor iRobot has prevailed in courtroom battles against Robotic FX, effectively gaining an unconditional surrender from the upstart.
Tags: Lawsuits, Patents, Defense/military
U.S. Army to deploy robots that shoot
News Talon robots moving from taking pictures to wielding machine gun. People, though, will control where it goes and what is shoots.
Tags: Defense/military
Commit the crime, serve the time
News Those who stalk, trap and inflame, albeit in cyberspace, are sent packing to the jailhouse.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Security
MIT to make "nanotech" Army wear
News The Massachusetts Institute of Technology gets US$50 million from the U.S. Army to create lightweight uniforms--or a molecular "exoskeleton" for soldiers, using nanotechnology.
Windows flaw opens PCs to attack
News A vulnerability that affects all versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system could allow attackers to run programs on a victim's PC.
