US Army Network Warfare Battalion Activated

US Army Network Warfare Battalion Activated

The United States Army has activated it’s new Network Warfare Battalion, during a ceremony at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. The Battalion’s mission is mandated to provide support to the Army and the DoD.
According to Maj. Gen. David Lacquement, Commander, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, “This battalion formalizes and centralizes the Army’s mission to [...]

Indian DoT vs. RIM’s Blackberries: Further Commentary

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Google’s description: “A semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool, optimized for an accurate and sensitive detection, and automatic annotation, of potential problems and security-relevant design patterns based on the observation of existing, user-initiated traffic in complex web 2.0 environments.

Detects and prioritizes broad classes of security problems, such as dynamic cross-site trust model considerations, script inclusion issues, content serving problems, insufficient XSRF and XSS defenses, and much more.

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US Army Network Warfare Battalion Activated

The United States Army has activated it’s new Network Warfare Battalion, during a ceremony at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. The Battalion’s mission is mandated to provide support to the Army and the DoD.

According to Maj. Gen. David Lacquement, Commander, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, “This battalion formalizes and centralizes the Army’s mission to provide rapid, increasing support to forces worldwide and will lead the Army in providing a larger and more robust network warfare capability.”

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