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The United States of America takes its national security very seriously. Since 9/11, terrorism has heightened across the globe and threatened the lives of many – including our vey own. These threats are often times attributed to military conflicts with other countries, and to...

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New Pod System Offers Aircraft Extreme Computing Capabilities | Homeland Security Degrees

New Pod System Offers Aircraft Extreme Computing Capabilities | Homeland Security Degrees

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A new technology is capable of being flown on remotely piloted aircraft in a pod-based enclosure and enables on-board, high-performance embedded computing …

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Lockheed Martin Air System Climatic Test Coordinator Vic Rodriguez talks about taking the F-35 through near-tropical storm conditions inside the McKinley Climatic Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Learn more about F-35 climatic testing: http://bit.ly/1SZaLOo.



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FBI Probes Possible Democrat Mobile Phone Hack | Homeland Security Degrees

FBI Probes Possible Democrat Mobile Phone Hack | Homeland Security Degreeshttps://homelandsecurityedus.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/fbi-probes-possible-democrat-mobile-phone-hack/ FBI Probes Possible Democrat Mobile Phone Hack The FBI is looking into the possible hacking of Democratic Party officials mobile phones as an investigation into a string of cyber-attacks on the party widens. Sources told Reuters that the Feds have asked to image the devices of a small number of officials although its not clear whether any are members of Congress. Its possible that the attacks are linked to a long-running cyber espionage campaign against the partys Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Democratic Congre To learn more visit: From: https://www.youtube.com/user/CBSThisMorning July 04 2016 Hillary Clinton supporters and potential running mates are defending her in the investigation of her private e-mail server. The presumptive Democratic nominee met Saturday with FBI investigators for more than three hours. Paula Reid reports. PigmineNews.com: http://www.pigminenews.com PigmineNews on mobile: http://www.pigminenews.com/mobile PigmineNews on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PigMineNews PigmineNews on Twitter: http://twitter.com/PigmineNews PigMine2 on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/pigmine2 PigMine5 on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/pigmine5 PigMine6 on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/pigmine6 PigMine7 on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/pigmine7 FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 106A-117 of the U.S. Copyright Law. The post FBI Probes Possible Democrat Mobile Phone Hack appeared first on Homeland Security Degrees. FBI Probes Possible Democrat Mobile Phone Hack

DarkOverlord Extorts WestPark Capital for Ransom | Homeland Security Degrees

DarkOverlord Extorts WestPark Capital for Ransom | Homeland Security Degreeshttps://homelandsecurityedus.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/darkoverlord-extorts-westpark-capital-for-ransom/ DarkOverlord Extorts WestPark Capital for Ransom The hacking group known as the DarkOverlord is threatening to release data from the California investment firm WestPark Capital unless it receives a ransom. The DarkOverlord got away with NDAs contracts internal reports and other sensitive data belonging to the investment firm. The hackers published links to about 20 stolen documents online after WestPark Capital initially refused to pay and is now threatening to release more. The documents that have already been made public includ To learn more visit: The post DarkOverlord Extorts WestPark Capital for Ransom appeared first on Homeland Security Degrees. DarkOverlord Extorts WestPark Capital for Ransom

150,000 IoT Devices behind the 1Tbps DDoS attack on OVH | Homeland Security Degrees

150,000 IoT Devices behind the 1Tbps DDoS attack on OVH | Homeland Security Degrees

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The hosting provider OVH continues to face massive DDoS attacks launched by a botnet composed at least of 150000 IoT devices.





Last week, the hosting provider OVH faced 1Tbps DDoS attack, likely the largest one ever seen.



The OVH founder and CTO Octave Klaba reported the 1Tbps DDoS attack on Twitter sharing an image that lists the multiple sources of the attack.



“Last days, we got lot of huge DDoS. Here, the list of “bigger that 100Gbps” only. You can see the simultaneous DDoS are close to 1Tbps !” said Klaba.



Klaba explained that the servers of its company were hit …

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GozNym Frankenstein Trojan Has Four Faces | Homeland Security Degrees

GozNym Frankenstein Trojan Has Four Faces | Homeland Security Degreeshttps://homelandsecurityedus.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/goznym-frankenstein-trojan-has-four-faces/ GozNym Frankenstein Trojan Has Four Faces The GozNym Trojan which is a Frankenstein-like hybrid of two families of malware has been used to frequently deliver malware through various spear phishing campaigns. But it turns out that this baddie has split personality disorder with four different variants out in the wild to wreak havoc. By way of background Gozi was a widely distributed banking trojan with a DGA and also contained the ability to install a Master Boot Record (MBR) rootkit. Nymaim emerged in 2013 as malware which was used to To learn more visit: The post GozNym Frankenstein Trojan Has Four Faces appeared first on Homeland Security Degrees. GozNym Frankenstein Trojan Has Four Faces

Fancy Bear Hackers use a new MacTrojan against aerospaceindustry | Homeland Security Degrees

Fancy Bear Hackers use a new MacTrojan against aerospaceindustry | Homeland Security Degreeshttps://homelandsecurityedus.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/fancy-bear-hackers-use-a-new-mac-trojan-against-aerospace-industry/ Researchers at Palo Alto spotted a new campaign of the Russian Fancy Bear APT using a new Mac OS X Trojan against companies in the aerospace industry. In the last weeks we have discussed a lot about a string of attacks that targeted theUS Democratic National Committee (DNC) security experts collected evidence of the involvement ofRussian nation-state actors. In particular security experts at threat intelligence firm ThreatConnecthave conducted an analysis on the IP addresseslisted in theflash alertissued in August by the FBI that warned about two cyber attacks against the election systems in two U.S. states. Th To learn more visit: Security Affairs The post Fancy Bear Hackers use a new MacTrojan against aerospaceindustry appeared first on Homeland Security Degrees. Fancy Bear Hackers use a new MacTrojan against aerospaceindustry

Night Vision Equipment Becomes Smaller and Lighter | Homeland Security Degrees

Night Vision Equipment Becomes Smaller and Lighter | Homeland Security Degrees

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Night vision technology developers have always aspired to reduce the size, weight and power consumption of the devices worn in the …

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Sen. Sasse: Homeland Security granting citizenship to those slated to be deported “bureaucratic failure at its worst” (AUDIO) | Homeland Security Degrees

Sen. Sasse: Homeland Security granting citizenship to those slated to be deported “bureaucratic failure at its worst” (AUDIO) | Homeland Security Degrees

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United States Sen. Ben Sasse claims “total incompetence” led Homeland Security to grant citizenship to nearly 1,000 people slated to be deported. Sasse says the Department of Homeland Security has admitted granting citizenship to at least 858 ……

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