Haulage companies in Pakistan have stopped delivering to foreign troops in Afghanistan after a major deterioration in security along the key supply route, an association official said Monday.
Northrop Grumman Corporation christened today the sixth submarine of the Virginia class, New Mexico (SSN 779), at the company's Shipbuilding sector in Newport News, Va.
The new Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the U.S. and Iraq provides Washington with the date that its last soldier must step off Iraqi soil - Dec. 13, 2011. It was not that long ago that the Bush administration refused to attach a timeline to operations in Iraq, setting off heated debate in Washington.
Preliminary to the delivery of the first serial SAMP/T system to the French Air Force, incorporating the new operational software version taking into account the results of the techno-operational evaluation performed from spring 2007 to summer 2008 by the French Air Force and the Italian Army
SIMMAD, the Integrated Maintenance Organisation for French MoD aircraft, recently awarded Dassault Aviation a 10-year contract to provide maintenance for all of the equipment within its work-scope for the 120 Rafale aircraft ordered to date by the French Air Force and Navy.
Local and provincial councils in Friesland fear the arrival of the Joint Strike Fighter airplane will mean the end of a number of villages and housing areas. The JSF fighter planes will be based at an air force base in Leeuwarden.
Russia plans to lease to India several nuclear-powered submarines of the type on which 20 people were killed last month in a gas leak, ITAR-TASS quoted a top official as saying on Monday.
Defence has awarded a 12 year contract to General Electric International Incorporated (GEII) to provide all support for the engines powering the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) F/A-18A/B Hornet and soon to be acquired F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft.
Recently, I was consulting on the development of cyber strategies that would lead the way in developing guidance on this rapidly emerging threat.
The objective of this work was to articulate new cyber concepts, doctrine, strategies and technology solutions. While using scenario-based intelligence analysis and trans-disciplinary intelligence engineering to advance current corpus of knowledge to apply toward the development of cyber attack strategies that manage this emerging risk and several interesting observations were made. A review intelligence surrounding the cyber attackers Modus Operandi (MO) lead to an interesting question
The question was: What liability should hardware and software vendors bare for vulnerabilities in their products
Our discussions brought up the legal aspect of this issue in the context of product liability. Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers and others who make products available to the public are held responsible for the harm those products cause.
The claims most commonly associated with product liability are that of negligence, strict liability and breach of warranty. A product's liability claim is usually based on one or more of the following causes of action.
A software vulnerability would clearly fall under the product defect cause of action
In the mid year report by IBM X-Force it stated that the overall number of vulnerabilities continued to rise as did the overall percentage of high risk vulnerabilities. Approximately 3500 software vulnerabilities were announced in the first six months of 2008 and on track to exceed the total number reported in 2007.
Given our critical infrastructure, our national security and our economy is dependent on generally available hardware and software.
Take the poll below to tell us what you think: Should hardware and software vendors be held accountable for flaws in their products that are exploited and used to gain access to and exploit the system?
[EDITOR: First answer should read software AND hardware...]
Old missile site poisoning Cheyenne's water supply
Why the F/A-18 failed (update: readers advise that this article "sucks")
Afghan national air force growing, growing, growing
Oh good grief...
What makes piracy work?
--John Noonan