Presence of neo-Nazis once again haunts US military

June 1st, 2009 APNEWSBREAK: US military tweetsKABUL — The U.S. military in Afghanistan is launching a Facebook page, a YouTube site and feeds on Twitter as part of a new communications effort to reach readers who get their information on the Internet rather than in newspapers, officials said Monday.

June 1st, 2009 US military Tweets to counter TalibanKABUL — The U.S. military in Afghanistan is launching a Facebook page, a YouTube site and feeds on Twitter as part of a new communications effort to reach readers who get their information on the Internet rather than in newspapers, officials said Monday.

March 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - China's military transformation has intensified in recent years as it acquires more advanced weaponry and technologies to conduct nuclear, space and cyber warfare, the Pentagon said. The Chinese military buildup poses troubling questions because Beijing has not clarified its intentions and does not publicly reveal all of its defence spending, the Pentagon annual report to US Congress said Wednesday.

June 23rd, 2009 Gates approves creation of new cyber command WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates has formally ordered the creation of a new military cyber command that will coordinate the Pentagon's efforts to defend its networks and conduct cyberwarfare. A memo signed by Gates on Tuesday asks that U.S.

May 21st, 2009 BEIJING - An acclaimed Internet scientist has said that there is no way hackers could access top-secret data by penetrating the firewalls of military on government networks. Former National Computer Network Emergency response team's Director Professor Fang Binxing said there is no scientific basis to blame either China's military or the government for hacking other nations' networks because most of them are "out of reach".

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - A US Defence Department report has said that China is developing "disruptive" technologies for nuclear, space and cyber warfare, resulting in the shifting of military balance in Asia which would have implications beyond the region. The Pentagon report criticises Beijing again for showing no transparency in reporting on its military spending and security policy, but welcomed the rise of a peaceful, stable and prosperous China.

April 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States will create a new military command to coordinate the defence of Pentagon computer networks and improve offensive capabilities in cyberwarfare, the Wall Street Journal has reported. The initiative will reshape the military's efforts to protect its networks from attacks by hackers, especially those from countries such as China and Russia, the influential daily said citing unnamed 'current and former officials familiar with the plans.' The new command will be unveiled within the next few weeks, it said citing Pentagon officials.

May 5th, 2009 Report: NKorea operating cyber warfare unitSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news report said Tuesday.

June 13th, 2009 NEW YORK - President Barack Obama's plan to create a new Pentagon cyber command to protect the US from cyber attacks is raising significant privacy and diplomatic concerns. Unveiling the new cyberdefense strategy, Obama had said: "The cybersecurity effort will not - I repeat, will not - include monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic." But senior Pentagon and military officials say that Obama's assurances may be difficult to guarantee in practice, particularly in trying to monitor the thousands of daily attacks on security systems in the United States, that have set off a race to develop better cyberweapons, New York Times reports.

October 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has suggested that the US must focus its efforts on defending its critical networks from cyber attack because it will be difficult to prevent cyber attacks on critical civilian and military computer networks by threatening to punish attackers. "Adversaries in future wars are likely to go after each other's information systems using computer hacking," said Martin C.

June 17th, 2009 BEIJING - China's lack of preparation against cyber terrorism has left the country "extremely vulnerable," to it, Chinese defence analysts have warned. "In the age of information, a nation's security would be at serious risk if its information systems were attacked, or the flow of information were interrupted," said Yu Xiaofeng, a specialist in non-traditional security at Zhejiang University.

May 20th, 2009 JAKARTA - At least 97 people were killed when an Indonesian military plane with more than 100 people on board crashed Wednesday into a residential neighbourhood in East Java province, the military said. Nineteen people were also injured when the Hercules C-130 crashed in Magetan district while on a regular flight to the country's easternmost province of Papua from the capital, Jakarta, hospital staff said.

October 2nd, 2009 Anne Frank museum launches YouTube channelAMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam has begun airing the only known video of the teenage diarist on a channel dedicated to her on YouTube. The channel also features clips of others, including her late father Otto and Nelson Mandela, talking about Anne, museum spokeswoman Annemarie Bekker said Friday.

May 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Computer hacking is becoming a growing threat and the US Department of Homeland Security sees it as a future battleground. To counter this new menace, the department has instructed the Air Force Office of Special Investigations to launch a cyber war against hackers seeking to disrupt and destroy vital U.S.

January 27th, 2009 BANGALORE - Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), promoted by angel investor Promod Haque, will invest Rs.200 million (Rs.20 crore) in infrastructure management services firm Appnomic Systems, it was announced here Wednesday. The venture fund will be invested to expand into the US market and build innovative product and service offerings, the Bangalore-based Appnomic said in a statement.