Juniper Networks has acquired Mykonos Software, a privately held company which offers tools and services to secure websites and web applications against hackers......»»

Happy hump day, everyone. Check out this close up photo of China’s Z-10 attack helicopter. Remember, the Z-10 — like the brand new Z-19 — looks familiar because it’s based on the Eurocopter Dauphin light cargo chopper. You know, the same helo the .....»»

Fascinating.........»»

The head of the National Security Agency is warning that Anonymous may be developing capabilities to target the U.S. power grid, but members of the hacktivist collective called such claims nothing more than fear mongering......»»

Some sad news from the weekend: Four Air Commandos died over the weekend when their U-28 special mission single engine turboprop went down in Djibouti Saturday. The planes based on the Pilatus PC-12, often operating in civilian livery, are flown by Air Fo.....»»

We here at DT had yesterday off so this is our Monday. To start the week off, we thought we’d show you these brand new pics of the F-35. These cool and slightly awkward looking photos shows an F-35A Joint Strike Fighter flying with external weapons .....»»

Research paper: "A birthday present every eleven wallets? The security of customer-chosen banking PINs," by Joseph Bonneau, Sören Preibusch, and Ross Anderson: Abstract: We provide the first published estimates of the difficulty of guessing a human-c.....»»

Marissa A. Ramsier, Andrew J. Cunningham, Gillian L. Moritz, James J. Finneran, Cathy V. Williams, Perry S. Ong, Sharon L. Gursky-Doyen, and Nathaniel J. Dominy (2012), "Primate communication in the pure ultrasound," Biology Letters. Abstract: Few mammals.....»»

Beautiful sculpture. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.........»»

The Anonymous collective has again targeted the Federal Trade Commission, bringing down some of its websites and claiming to have rooted hundreds of its servers......»»

In the 1970s, the Air Force launched a Minuteman ICBM launched from a C-5 Galaxy. Hold on, what!?!? That was my reaction upon learning that the above sentence is true. In 1974, the Air Force decided that it could turn C-5 Galaxy airlifters into flying SSB.....»»

Funny comic.........»»

Amid all the recent talk about the need for U.S. Navy minesweepers in the Persian Gulf in case Iran attempts to close the straight of Hormuz with sea mines, I noticed an interesting fact about China’s minesweeping plans. They involve drones. Not sleek, .....»»

Self-domestication happens when the benefits of cooperation outweigh the costs: But why and how could natural selection tame the bonobo? One possible narrative begins about 2.5 million years ago, when the last common ancestor of bonobos and chimpanzees li.....»»

A new version of a federal law designed to protect the nation's critical assets is toned-down from previous cyber security proposals, but business and privacy leaders have concerns......»»

From the abstract of the paper: In this paper, we analyze the encryption systems used in the two existing (and competing) satphone standards, GMR-1 and GMR-2. The first main contribution is that we were able to completely reverse engineer the encryption a.....»»

Happy Thursday. Let’s start things off with this great picture of two Air Force F-15 Eagles out of Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska intercepting a pair of Soviet MiG-29s over the Bering Sea back in the day. The shot, taken in 1989, shows the wingman c.....»»

There's some excellent research (paper, news articles) surveying public keys in the wild. Basically, the researchers found that a small fraction of them (27,000 out of 7.1 million, or 0.38%) share a common factor and are inherently weak. The researchers c.....»»

A cross-site scripting vulnerability being exploited in the wild has prompted Adobe to issue an update to its Flash Player, a move that may catch security pros off guard......»»

Geotagged images of children: Joanne Kuzma of the University of Worcester, England, has analyzed photos that clearly show children's faces on the photo sharing site Flickr. She found that a significant proportion of those analyzed were geotagged and a lar.....»»