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Category: Military technology

FI is looking for technological support for an award winning scheme that is providing a new future for young offenders by providing them with the skills for a new start in life.

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Experts say more software weapon attacks are only a matter of time.

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Gary McKinnon, the British hacker at the heart of an extradition battle with the US Government was not alone and was the most junior member of a hacking group largely ignored by the authorities.

An investigation by Future intelligence has been told that  McKinnon, who faces a potential 60 year jail sentence if he is handed over to the US, was not a lone hacker roving through US computer systems but was instead the most junior member of an informal five-strong group that regularly exchanged information on US systems.

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Advanced information overlay technology has long been the preserve of futuristic film and TV fantasies. Here, Peter Warren, reveals how a pioneering California-based company is turning science fiction into hi-tech reality for the masses via its online data-fusion system – with huge implications for the way we view the world.

Ten years ago, the now defunct 3D company Silicon Graphics put together a 3D astral model of the Milky Way for the American Museum of Natural History.

Called the Digital Galaxy Project, the model allowed visitors to fly through our galaxy, marvelling at the sheer size and scale of the system to which our planet belongs, and of which it is such a tiny part.

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James Bond’s old Naval department rises from the ashes

Commander Bond would have approved, Naval Intelligence his old stamping ground, is about to be reborn by the Ministry of Defence.

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By Michael Smith and Peter Warren

NATO is considering the use of military force against enemies who launch cyber attacks on its member states.

The move follows a series of Russian-linked hacking against Nato members and warnings from intelligence services of the growing threat from China.

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Hackers are being targeted for attack by US and UK security authorities eager to launch a cyber counteroffensive to kick them off the net Peter Warren reports

Hackers at 2009 ‘Hacking at random’ conference

 

Hackers who attack defence or commercial computers in the US and UK in future may be in for a surprise: a counterattack, authorised and carried out by the police and defence agencies that aims to disrupt and even knock them off the net.

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For the fourth year running a project conceived by Future Intelligence, Sims Recycling and Glamorgan University finds highly sensitive data on discarded hard drives.  

Written by Peter Warren

Thaad missile test firing

Information on the launch codes and staff working on the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD), a critical part of the US defence shield against nuclear attack, has been found during a survey of the data thrown out on discarded computer hard drives.

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