Sensitive US government and military travel details left exposed online

Significant amounts of sensitive data about employees of the US government military personnel data could now be in the public domain following its exposure in a data leak.
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US military turns to Parrot to help develop new reconnaissance drones

Parrot had quite a presence in the world of consumer drones a few years back, starting out as a purveyor of playful toy drones and working its way into the prosumer realm. Though it hasn’t reached the heights of some drone companies in terms … Continue reading US military turns to Parrot to help develop new reconnaissance drones→

Lest We Forget: All Gave Some, Some Gave All

Image Courtesy of American Battle Monuments Commission Suresnes American Cemetery
Memorial Day 2019
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DoD Releases Report, Stryker Vehicles Hacked In NATO Exercises

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of the Director of Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) has issued a report detailing vulnerabilities in the Stryker Dragoon warfighting platform. Recommendations from the DOT&E are to ‘Correct or mitigate cyber… Continue reading DoD Releases Report, Stryker Vehicles Hacked In NATO Exercises→

Smashing Security #107: Sextorting the US army, and a Touch ID scam

Fitness apps exploit TouchID through a sneaky user interface trick, tech giants claim to have a plan to banish passwords, and you won’t believe who was behind a sextortion scam that targeted over 400 members of the US military.
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D-Day, Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944

“… these men came here – British and our Allies, and Americans – to storm these beaches for one purpose only, not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve … Continue reading D-Day, Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944→