A senior Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center official is seeing the quantity and sophistication of digital attacks increase, a trend that he suggests may be attributable to the emergence of new AI capabilities that can aid hackers.
Terry Kalka, director of the DOD-Defense Industrial Base Collaborative Information Sharing Environment (DCISE), noted that malicious cyber actors can now use AI to do a lot of their work.
“I don’t think we’ve gotten to a point where we get a report and we go ‘ah, that was an AI attack there.
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A U.S. F-35 jet made an emergency landing in the Middle East after being hit by suspected Iranian fire during a mission over Iran.
The jet landed safely and the pilot is stable, but the incident is under investigation.
This would mark the first time Iran has successfully hit a U.S. aircraft—specifically a 5th-generation stealth jet—since the war began.
Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for US Central Command, confirmed the emergency landing.
Troops seeking religious waivers for beards will now have to prove to senior military service officials that they have sincerely held beliefs that require they grow their facial hair. The new military-wide policy imposes new requirements for both submitting and approving requests for such waivers, and adds new steps for a troop’s direct commanders and supervisors to weigh in on the requests.
The new memo also adds a requirement of a sworn statement of religious faith, with a warning that a false claim could result in “disciplinary action” under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Designed in 2002, the Heckler & Koch XM8 was a lightweight assault rifle that aimed to replace the original M4 carbine in U.S. Army service. Based on Germany’s G36 rifle, the XM8’s futuristic appearance and extensive use of polymer made it popular in video games of the time. But the Army canceled the program and opted to stick with an improved M4A1 carbine.
Now, the XM8 is back on the military’s books, as the carbine version of the M7, courtesy of SIG Sauer.
The war against Iran has spread to neighboring Iraq, where a top U.S. general says American Apache attack helicopters are battling Iranian proxies.
“In Iraq, AH-64s [Apache helicopters] have been striking against Iranian-aligned militia groups to make sure that we suppress any threat in Iraq against us, forces or U.S. interests,” Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters on Thursday.
Speaking at a Pentagon news conference, Caine did not elaborate on how many combat missions Apache helicopters have flown in Iraq since U.S.
An Illinois soldier was awarded a Purple Heart on her very last day in the Army, receiving the award more than a decade after suffering injuries from a car bomb in Afghanistan.
Sgt. 1st Class Christina Larson was a combat medic with the 911th Forward Surgical Team in 2015 at Kabul’s main airport, then known as Hamid Karzai International. A car bomb attack against the base that January leveled buildings and blew in the windows to Larson’s barracks room, where she was in bed when the explosion went off.