Category Global Risks & Future Threats

Remerging threat of Biological Weapons attack against Agricultural Targets and Agrobioterrorism, with advances in Gene editing, synthetic biology, and improved delivery systems

agriculturewarfare

Food and agriculture are key elements of the critical infrastructure of every country because they provide products that are essential for life. The United States is a country with a highly developed agricultural sector. Food and agriculture constitute a sixth…...

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Smart home devices have many security risks and threats to be exploited by hackers and Intelligence agencies for mass surveillance

IoTsurveiilance

The rise of the digital era has brought with it many wondrous changes to our daily lives, not least of which the fact that we now carry digital assistants with us everywhere we go in the form of smartphones, tablets,…...

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Driverless cars vulnerable to hacking and could be used to carry out suicide attacks, Researchers developing new security solutions

Car Bomb

Automotive industry is currently undergoing an electrification process. In a few years, every new vehicle sold will have some degree of autonomy built in. Carmakers from Google to Apple, Tesla to Volkswagen are trying to make drivers obsolete, handing control of…...

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Corona virus or COVID-19 widely impacted World’s economy, geopolitics, military to technology and industry

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More than 248 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 5 million have died, according to a Reuters tally.   From herpes and legionnaires’ disease in the 1970s, to AIDS, Ebola, the severe…...

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DARPA has strarted failing in its mission to prevent technological surprise to the US and what were the plausible reasons

darpabreakthrough

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an independent agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, with a mission to prevent technological surprise to the US, and also to create technological surprise for its enemies. DARPA operates through Program…...

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Militaries give thrust on new anti-coronavirus or COVID-19 tech innovations and technologies

covidmilitary

From herpes and legionnaires’ disease in the 1970s, to AIDS, Ebola, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and now Covid-19, contagious diseases continue to threaten and disrupt human populations. The COVID‑19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing…...

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COVID-19 Outbreak raises the threat of next pandemic, Synthetic Biologists race to develop  detection, vaccination to cure technologies

coronavirus

Since December 31, 2019, when the 2019-nCoV coronavirus was first reported from Wuhan, China, It has spread like wildfire to every corner of the globe, posing a serious threat for the foreseeable future. Millions have been infected, although a worse…...

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COVID-19 is enhancing Terrorism, Cyberattacks, and Bioterrorism threats in the world

Covidcyber

The head of the World Health Organization is warning that the COVID-19 pandemic is speeding up, and he criticized governments that have failed to establish reliable contact tracing to stop the spread of the coronavirus. According to the latest tally…...

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Threat of Battlefield air pollution affects soldiers and long term environment effects

airpollution

Atmospheric pollution is a growing problem, particularly in urban areas and in less developed countries.  With half the world has no access to clean fuels or technologies (e.g. stoves, lamps), the very air we breathe is growing dangerously polluted. More…...

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Growing threats to ICT supply chains, DOD implements Supply Chain Risk management (SCRM) in acquisition

SupplyChainRiskManagement

The rapid evolution of technology and outsourced manufacturing has created new opportunities, as well as new challenges and risks. Organizations today are under increased pressure to improve product designs as well as manufacturability and sustainability while reducing costs and development schedules.…...

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