defence
RSS defence'Nasa hacker' case raised in parliament
News Currently, two high-court judges are reviewing whether former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was right to turn down McKinnon's second appeal for clemency, and are considering arguments from McKinnon's defence team that the... [16 Jul 2009]
MoD inks £231m deal to boost comms
News The Ministry of Defence has awarded two comms contracts worth a total of £231m to General Dynamics UK. The deals cover upgrading the UK Armed Forces' Bowman digital radios comms system and improving interoperability with... [03 Jul 2009]
iPhone 3.0, holograms and the shed birthplace of Silicon Valley
Photo Photo credit: Ministry of Defence Pictured here is cabinet newbie defence secretary Bob Ainsworth - the man who, among other tasks, will take over responsibility for managing the £7.1bn... [03 Jul 2009]
Why Google's security arm doesn't have a war room
News The computer security industry historically borrows military defence concepts to combat digital threats, literally creating war rooms where experts follow attacks in progress on huge screens with phones ringing off the... [02 Jul 2009]
IT security training now the 'substantial' task of GCHQ
News As part of the government's Cyber Security Strategy, a Cyber Security Operations Centre is being set up in Cheltenham to co-ordinate UK systems infrastructure defence and attack capabilities. The government is turning... [01 Jul 2009]
SpamBlocker: Combining NLP and Genetic Algorithms to Improve Spam Defence Efficiency
White Paper The problem of differentiating solicited email from spam email for millions of email users worldwide has still not been fully solved, in part due to variation in user preferences and idiosyncratic language use. [01 Jul 2009]
Anchiva Network Threat Defence
White Paper The RapidRx Labs is Anchiva's professional malware research team that focuses on virus, malicious threats, and security lapse research. Since starting research operations in 2005, Anchiva's RapidRx Labs quickly established itself as a... [30 Jun 2009]
Britain to get official cyber attack dogs
News Robert Hannigan, the prime minister's security adviser, said the OCS would be about "drawing together what people are already doing in the Ministry of Defence, the intelligence services and the police". [25 Jun 2009]
Defence Against 802.11 DoS Attacks Using Artificial Immune System
White Paper This paper presents an Artificial Immune System (AIS) based security framework, which prevents a number of serious Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. The proposed security framework can counter de-authentication and disassociation attacks. [20 Jun 2009]
Signing off a gov't IT contract? Don't move a muscle
News These include 20 projects undertaken by the Ministry of Defence that are set to cost £3bn more than originally planned, and a Department for Transport shared services initiative that aimed to save £57m but will now cost... [16 Jun 2009]
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Case Study: University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA)
White Paper The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA) plays a central role in ensuring Australia's security by training the nation's future military leaders. When its existing network... [12 Jun 2009]
David Jones
CIO Profile Prior to joining the CPS, Jones ran the Defence Fixed Networks Integrated Project Team; which included one of the largest outsourced service delivery programmes in government. David Jones joined the Crown Prosecution... [01 Jun 2009]
Ofcom taps MoD for 2012 Olympics radio spectrum
News It appears that some of the spectrum that will be used for wireless video equipment will have to come from the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Civil Aviation Authority and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. [28 May 2009]
Calling 'Mister Cyber Security': EU needs super cyber cop
News Reding said: "Although the EU has created an agency for network and information security, called ENISA [European Network and Information Security Agency], this instrument remains mainly limited to being a platform to exchange information... [28 Apr 2009]
Photos: There's no business like RoboBusiness
Photo Foster-Miller, a unit of UK defence contractor Qinetiq, was showing off the Talon, which has been used in places like Iraq for bomb disposal missions. Players large and small in the robotics industry descended on Boston,... [20 Apr 2009]
