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Cubic wins Italian Army follow-on option contract for Home Station Training

SAN DIEGO, Calif.: Cubic Defense Applications has announced it was awarded a follow-on option subcontract, through its strategic partner in Italy, STE S.p.A., worth more than $6.5 million to enhance full spectrum training capacity for the Italian Army. The contract provides a home station training resource consisting of Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) and Counter Improvised Explosive Devices (CIED) kits to be provided to the Italian Army’s combat regiments.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Contracts and Procurement; Posted On Wednesday, 07 January 2015 22:35

‘Evening with Stuart Pearce’ raises over £10,000 for military charity

A team of Nottingham Forest soccer legends and World Champion boxer Carl Froch delivered a knockout evening to raise funds for a war veterans charity.

The glittering ‘An Evening with Stuart Pearce’ event raised around £10,000 for Blesma, The Limbless Veterans, the club’s charity of the season.

: Bryony Stevens; International Security, Safety & Strategic Defence; Posted On Wednesday, 07 January 2015 22:28

Sony CEO sees no major financial impact - but what of the long term implications?

In light of the news that Sony’s CEO Kazuo Hirai has stated he doesn’t expect there to be any major financial impact on the entertainment company after the recent cyber attack, Russ Spitler, VP of product strategy from AlienVault, has given the following comment:

: Carolina Brealey; Talking Point; Posted On Wednesday, 07 January 2015 22:24

TorrentLocker cracked: Europe in the sight of bitcoin requesting ransomware

London: ESET research team from Canada has analyzed a widespread case of ransomware generally known as TorrentLocker, which started spreading in early 2014. The latest variant of the malware has infected at least 40-thousand systems in the last few months targeting primary European countries. ESET’s security research team prepared an extensive white paper, presenting all the findings of the investigation and analysis of the malware behavior together with blog post are now available on WeLiveSecurity.com.