The article points out the continuing need to have a unified command determined early on during the response to a terrorist attack or a natural disaster. Hurricane Katrina is just the latest example …
New TSA Surveillance Tactic Curtailed
The Washington Post highlighted the expanding tasks of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the wake of the unfortunate shooting of American Airlines passenger Rigoberto Alpizar (WAR …
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Biometric Readers Fooled With Fake Fingerprints
Biometrics, the science of using biological properties?fingerprints, retina scan and voice recognition?to identify individuals, are becoming the foundation of an extensive class of highly secure …
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Significant fraction of online domains falsely registered
The GAO?s study of falsified domain registration information is significant because it highlights the precarious balance between the need to preserve free speech on-line and the difficulties of …
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DHS to help defend networks against the newest threats
According to the Department of Homeland Security?s website, the Homeland Security Advanced Projects Agency (HSARPA) ?has an essential role in meeting the goals and objectives of the Department and the …
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Male passenger who threatened to blow up bomb at MIA shot and killed by federal marshal
In the days immediately following the shooting of Rigoberto Alpizar ?a bi-polar 44-year old resident of Maitland, Florida?critics and supporters of the two Federal Air Marshals (FAMs) aboard American …
Pakistani militants clash with bandits, 15 dead
The reports this week on banditry in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan shed light on a dimension of violence plaguing President Pervez Musharraf . The tribal regions of North and South …
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UN contemplates military operation for Darfur
There are many reasons for non-partisan observers to be suspicious of?even outright hostile toward?the Sudanese government even before one examines the humanitarian catastrophe in the western …
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Terror threat to ‘crowded areas’
Through December, the UK's MI5 and various police forces have been working to disrupt al-Qaeda cells operating in country. As a result, on December 2, Scotland Yard issued an alert to 51 chief …
Abductions for ransom soar in Haiti
As Haiti continues to fall deeper into an abyss of anarchy and chaos, the impoverished island-nation has surpassed the war-torn country of Colombia as the new kidnapping capital of the hemisphere?an …