May 12, 2018 | Government, Radio Show, Security, Smart Phone
Pentagon Orders Military To Halt Sale Of Chinese Phones Citing Security Threats The U.S. Department of Defense has ordered retail stores on military bases to stop the sale of products made by Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE for security reasons, including...
May 12, 2018 | Government, Radio Show, Security, Technology
A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm To Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid Last winter, on the outskirts of a large U.S.city, an FBI hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post to assess an unfolding situation. Soon they heard the buzz of small drones — and then...
May 12, 2018 | Government, Radio Show
Failure to Launch: New Mexico’s Gamble on Spaceport America The sun-bleached stretch of the New Mexico desert known as the Jornada del Muerto — the journey of the dead man — is an unlikely spot for Earth’s premier portal to another world. Yet this high desert...
May 5, 2018 | Government, Radio Show, Security
Chinese surveillance programme mines data from workers’ brains Russia is attacking the U.S. energy grid, nuclear facilities, water processing plants, aviation systems, and other critical infrastructure that millions of Americans rely on, according to a new joint...
Apr 28, 2018 | Government, Radio Show, Security
Atlanta Spent $2.6M to Recover From $52,000 Ransomware Scare THE CITY OF Atlanta spent more than $2.6 million on emergency efforts to respond to a ransomware attack that destabilized municipal operations last month. Attackers, who infected the city’s systems...
Apr 28, 2018 | Facebook, Government, Online, Privacy, Radio Show, Security, Social Networking
Facebook moves 1.5bn users out of reach of new European privacy law Facebook has moved more than 1.5 billion users out of reach of European privacy law, despite a promise from Mark Zuckerberg to apply the “spirit” of the legislation globally. In a tweak to its terms...