A federal judge has refused to dismiss a recorded confession and computer evidence collected in the case of Mathew Keys, a former Reuters employee accused of conspiring with members of Anonymous to hack his former employer.
With UAVs crowding navigable airspace and plans underway to put giant mega-satellites into orbit, it was just a matter of time before a drone-satellite hybrid was developed to fit between the two spaces. StratoBus, a new project out of France, ...
One of President Barack Obama’s biggest legacies will be his healthcare plan. Another, thanks to the Edward Snowden leaks, is domestic spying.
But Obama has another legacy, one not so obvious, and which won't be felt until years after he's left ...
Last week Edward Snowden, speaking from Moscow to the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, issued a call-to-arms to the tech community to step up its game and devise solutions to secure online communications and activity from snoops. To ...
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is building technology that will allow the military to capture solar power in orbit and project it back down to Earth.
We already knew that the NSA has weaponized the internet, enabling it to "shoot" exploits at anyone it desires. But the Edward Snowden slides and story published yesterday at The Intercept convey a wealth of new detailed information about the ...
Spy tools, whether designed by intelligence agencies, cyber crooks or internet creeps, can turn your camera on without illuminating the indicator light. Online tutorials even instruct neophyte hackers on how to hijack your webcam. Fortunately, WIRED is here with a ...
The NSA doesn’t just hack foreign computers. It also piggybacks on the work of professional for-profit hackers, taking over entire networks of already-hacked machines and using them for their own purposes.
It's refreshing to hear Dianne Feinstein express outrage over warrantless and illegal government spying, But sadly to say, there’s some dark humor of sorts here, too. Feinstein is perhaps the biggest congressional cheerleader of domestic surveillance, including the telephone snooping ...
Last week, it occurred to me that I might start monitoring the local Wi-Fi environment to determine how often the Apple Bus really comes by. My wife guessed 10 times a day. I’d have said 20. After a week of ...
With lawmakers slow to pass legislation curbing NSA surveillance, it's up to the technology community to step in and devise solutions that will better protect online communications from snoops, said Edward Snowden, speaking today from Moscow at the South by ...
Matt Gunn, an independent model aircraft or drone operator in Cleveland, says the recent court ruling barring the Federal Aviation Administration from enforcing rules prohibiting the commercial use of drones amounts to “mud being flung in their face.” Gunn is ...
The Pentagon learned in August 2013 -- when the U.S. came close to striking Syria over the Assad regime's use of sarin gas -- that it was woefully unprepared to face chemical or biological weapons on the battlefield. Now Darpa ...
Darpa has taken on a new role in military procurement: quality control. The military's research agency is developing a device to detect used and counterfeit electronic components in the Pentagon's supply chain, hoping to get a handle on a problem the agency ...
In Silicon Valley, walking around with an augmented reality display on your face makes you a glasshole. But on the battlefield, similar technology will soon turn U.S. soldiers into a lethal cross between the Terminator and Iron Man.
The U.S. may be forced to withdraw troops completely from Afghanistan by the end of the year. That's bad news if you're the CIA, and your lethal drone flights over neighboring Pakistan rely on the close proximity of Afghan airstrips. ...
U.S. Army convoys will soon be able to roll into even the roughest of unfriendly foreign urban areas and combat zones without the worry of loss of life, thanks to new technology that will make large vehicles fully autonomous.
If the Army is going to keep up with military readiness pressures while also seeing a reduction in troop size and stagnant budgets, then it's going to need more cutting-edge videogames.
