Neowin News Feed for: Military

US military green-lights secure version of Android for use by soldiers

Andy Weir — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:02:51 +0100

The US Department of Defense has approved Samsung phones running a secure version of Android, known as 'Knox', for use by American soldiers, with further devices expecting approval this month. Read more...

Shanghai could be home to secretive Chinese hackers

Paul Ferson — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:35:28 +0000

Unit 61938, a group of Chinese governmental hackers responsible for more than 100 documented attacks since 2006, might have been nailed on the outskirts of the world's biggest city - Shanghai. Read more...

Kinect to be used in physical therapy for injured veterans

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:40:42 +0000

Microsoft is working on providing a way for injured veterans to rehab in the comfort of their own homes through the use of Kinect. The company is partnering with the Air Force for the project. Read more...

Anonymous release e-mail login details of 90k Military personnel

Tom Dwyer — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:04:27 +0100

Internet Activist group Anonymous have released information about their latest attack today, in which they posted 90,000 e-mail addresses and passwords of Military personnel. It marks another leak under the #Antisec movement which seems to be... Read more...

US warns future hackers of possible military action

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:01:14 +0100

Yesterday the United States revealed its International Strategy for Cyberspace that deals with military and defence matters relating to cyber-attacks, along with general praise of cyberspace and other less interesting matters. The document mentions the... Read more...

US Air Force bans removable media

Matthew Jones — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:17:07 +0000

Thumb drives? Blank discs? Uncle Sam says no. In the wake of the WikiLeaks scandal, it appears the US Military is taking extra measures to ensure sensitive materials stay out of the wrong - or right,... Read more...

Wikileaks retreats to Amazon after DDoS attack

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:40:25 +0000

After becoming the victim of an effective Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Sunday, the controversial and influential Wikileaks has decided to move their operation to Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform. A DDoS attack... Read more...

GameStop decides not to sell Medal of Honor to military

Brandon Boyce — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:07:01 +0100

Electronic Arts' new Medal of Honor game -- expected to be out in October -- has been getting a lot of negative attention recently. The UK defense secretary said publicly that the game should be... Read more...

The Predator drone program: is humanity ready?

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:01:04 +0100

As the small group of soldiers lays stranded under cover in an Iraqi urban battlefield, barking coordinates and position updates into a handheld radio, a small bomber flies overhead. With unmatched precision, the bomber pilot... Read more...

US Cyber Command approved for launch in October

Tzvi Friedman — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:42:28 +0100

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In June 2009, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates approved an initiative to start Cyber Command, a subdivision of U.S. Strategic Command that would be responsible for the defense and coordination of all the computer networks... Read more...

U.S. military enters the 21st century, allows access to social networking

Kristan Kenney — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:32:13 +0000

The Pentagon announced on Friday that military personnel who use its non-classified network will now have access to popular social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook, along with services such as YouTube according to... Read more...

US Air Force builds supercomputer using PlayStation 3s

Matthew Hopson — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:56:41 +0000

A US Air Force research team has built a supercomputer using just over 2,000 PlayStation 3 game consoles, according to military news site Stars and Stripes. Dubbed the 500 TeraFLOPS Heterogeneous Cluster it is almost... Read more...

iPod Touch being adopted for networked warfare

Brad Sams — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:37:29 +0100

The United States military is taking Apple's iPod touch onto the battlefield. A report shows that the iPod Touch is perfect for "networked warfare" and that it will allow soldiers to be linked together... Read more...

Military puts MySpace, other sites off limits

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:43:37 +0100

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Lt. Daniel Zimmerman, an infantry platoon leader in Iraq, puts a blog on the Internet every now and then "to basically keep my friends and family up to date" back home. It just got tougher... Read more...

U.S. Military Plans to Put Router in Space

Slimy — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:14:49 +0100

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In 2009, the U.S. Department of Defense hopes to launch a satellite carrying an Internet router into space. Internet Routing in Space will allow U.S. ground troops to have voice, data and video communications while... Read more...

Google, British Military Discuss Google Earth Use in Attacks

Slimy — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:08:07 +0000

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Google is talking with military agencies after learning that terrorists attacking British bases in Basra, Iraq, appear to have been using aerial footage from Google Earth. It appears that among documents seized in raids on... Read more...

Military readies directed-energy weapons

malebolgia — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:57:15 +0100

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What could be cooler than zapping animals from a few dozens yards away? Apparently nothing overall important for Peter Anthony Schlesinger. While this experiment seems pretty odd it does have some uses according... Read more...

Are P2P networks leaking military secrets?

malebolgia — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:49:49 +0100

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A new Web log is posting what it purports are pictures, documents and letters from U.S. soldiers and military bases in Iraq and elsewhere--all of which the site's operator claims to have downloaded from peer-to-peer... Read more...

IBM to Build Supercomputer for U.S. Military

malebolgia — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:20:20 +0100

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IBM has landed a contract to build a new supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Defense. This supercomputer will be used for war simulation, weather forecasting among other things. IBM said that the... Read more...

Military on alert for Coke's chip contest

Premgenius — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:10:28 +0100

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There's a new security threat at some of the nation's military bases – and it looks uncannily like a can of Coke. Specially rigged Coke cans, part of a summer promotion, contain cell... Read more...