Cyber terrorists have a number of ways to mount a major cyber attack on U.S. Internet infrastructure due to the general instability of its base, the director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) “With decades of IT infrastructure built to support changing technologies, there is little ability to baseline the entire infrastructure [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union today is asking the FBI field offices in 29 states and Washington, D.C. to turn over records related to the agency’s collection and use of race and ethnicity data in local communities. According to an FBI operations guide, FBI agents have the authority to collect information about and create maps [...]
Nearly 10 years after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks brought to light the dangers of fake IDs, federal undercover agents are still able to easily obtain genuine U.S. e-Passports using clearly fraudulent information that should have raised red flags at the State Department according to this ABC News report. Gregory Kutz, an investigator for [...]
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said Thursday in a statement that the Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez has closed to “review its security posture,”. The facility, on the border with Texas, will be closed Friday and will remain closed until the security review is completed, according to the embassy statement. No reason for the [...]
Was it a coincidence that agents reportedly found small trace amounts of explosives on the arm casts of two people in two different terminals at DFW airport? Lets hope so. NBC Dallas Ft. Worth reports sources within the TSA and DFW Airport Police said agents discovered the small traces of explosives on the arm casts [...]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent its highest-ranking official ever to speak at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas this week, and its Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute ended up fielding a few tough questions from skeptical computer security professionals in attendance. Read Full Article Related articles DHS Exec Takes Hard Questions on [...]
Continental Airlines is testing a new self-service boarding procedure at a gate at its hub in the Houston Intercontinental airport. It’s said to be the first experiment at what’s called “self-boarding” in the country. Similar to passengers on a subway, airline passengers will swipe their boarding passes at a kiosk reader at the gate. That [...]
A company that monitors the web in real time and says it uses that information to predict the future is receiving backing from the investment arms of the CIA and Google. Recorded Future (the company) scours tens of thousands of Internet websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to uncover relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents [...]
According to this article in the Washington Post, the Obama administration is looking to make it easier for the FBI to access records of an individual’s Internet activity without a court order if it is deemed the information is relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. The White House is looking to include just four [...]
Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qeada’s second in command is back, once again threatening more terror attacks against the US and the West. In an audio eulogy for Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, Zawahiri mentions the Times Square Attack and promises more to come. According to a transcript provided by the “MEMRI”, the Middle East Media Research Institute, based [...]
Israel and the US have collected a great deal of information about how Islamic terrorists operate. Much of this data will continue to be secret for quite a while, but new pieces of information are made public once in awhile. The latest revelation is in fact confirmation of several older items of information. Suicide bombers [...]
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John S. Pistole today launched two major enhancements to general aviation security – the general aviation component of DHS’s nationwide “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign, and a streamlined system for vetting passengers and crew on general aviation aircraft entering [...]
Six men were discovered bound in a car car near Chilpancingo, Guerrero Mexico next to a not that read “This will happen to all rapists, extortionists and kidnappers. Attentively, the New Cartel of the Sierra”. Although the killings in Mexico do not come as a surprise, Mexican authorities are investigating the possible emergence of a [...]
Shortly after his arrest, the man who allegedly threatened the creators of the TV “South Park” and then tried to join an al Qaeda-linked group in East Africa told FBI agents he wanted to help them in the fight against terrorism. Read Full Article Related articles Virginia Terror Suspect Wanted to Help FBI (liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com) Virginia [...]
If there is any doubt left that the violence in Mexico is spinning out of control, with corruption at too many levels to comnprehend… Fox News is reporting guards and officials at a prison in northern Mexico allegedly let inmates out, lent them guns and sent them off in official vehicles to carry out drug-related [...]
It appears that Mexican drug cartels may be upping the ante even more, adopting terror techniques not previously seen in the growing violence on the border. A Hezbollah-like car bomb explodes in a border town as a congresswoman asks Homeland Security about links between the terrorist group and Mexican drug cartels. This is more than [...]
A senior U.S. law enforcement official has told CNN that U.S. intelligence believes the principal author of the new online al Qaeda magazine is an American citizen who left for Yemen in October 2009. The magazine — called “Inspire” — appeared last week. Running to nearly 70 pages online, it included articles on bomb-making and [...]
When classes resume in the fall, the University of Maryland University College will be offering several courses in understanding terrorism, including “Counterterrorism” and “Terrorism, Antiterrorism and Homeland Security.” Utah Valley University in Orem is looking for an assistant professor of emergency services. Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., advertises that its environmental engineering majors will be [...]
The bedraggled immigrants were picking their way through the boulders and scrub when a group of heavily armed men descended on them just short of the California- Mexico border. They corralled them in a cave and pointed their guns on the 10 men and one woman. These lawless badlands in the hills east of Tijuana [...]
Fox News reports the failed bombing attempt over Detroit on Christmas Day may not have been the only attack that extremists planned for the 2009 holiday, with intelligence from overseas three weeks earlier indicating that a plot targeting New York City on the same day may have been in the works, according to an FBI [...]
