From Wired: With recent news stories involving serious attacks on Sony and its PlayStation Network, Microsoft’s Xbox Live network, alongside other high profile attacks on the Tor project and North Korea’s Websites, has cyber-terrorism become a very real and dangerous reality for enterprises to battle alongside other threats?
From HSToday: Figures released by Pew Research Center just days before President Obama’s State of the Union address show the US public has placed fighting terrorism above all other policy concerns including economic issues, for the first time in five years. As views of the economy improve and terrorist threats persist, the public’s policy priorities […]
From The Daily Caller: The new border bills drafted by Republican leaders require the actual removal of at least 66 miles of weak border fencing between laborers in Mexico and employers in the United States. The border bills also only require for the construction of 27 miles of effective double-layer fencing along the 2,000-mile border.
From The Washington Post: Shiite insurgents overran Yemen’s presidential palace and shelled the president’s nearby residence Tuesday in an escalating offensive striking at the heart of the Western-allied government. The coup-style strikes by the Houthi rebel faction — believed backed by Iran — posed the most serious challenge yet to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, […]
From CBS News: A video released online Tuesday by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shows two purported Japanese hostages on their knees, as a man wielding a large knife says they will be executed unless the group receives $200 million in ransom in the next 72 hours…The militant in the video, who […]
From The Hill: The House Homeland Security Committee will mark up legislation this week to enhance border security as the GOP debates how to respond to President Obama’s immigration action…The measure, authored by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), House Homeland Security Committee chairman, would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to prevent all unlawful entries […]
From AIN Online: The customs preclearance facility the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency established last January at Abu Dhabi International Airport prohibited 450 people from boarding flights to the United States in its first year of operation. Some of those people were suspected terrorists, said Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who wants to […]
From NPR: Republican lawmakers of the House and Senate emerged from a rare joint retreat in Hershey, Pa., a town known best for its chocolate, with little to show for it. Unlike last year’s House retreat where lawmakers unveiled their principles for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration overhauls, there was little grand takeaway.
From the LA Times: A week after the worst terrorist attacks in France in decades, European counter-terrorism officials conducted sweeping raids that netted at least 29 people, searching numerous sites starting late Thursday in Belgium and continuing Friday in France and Germany. Federal prosecutors in Belgium said they had prevented another “large-scale” attack, telling reporters […]
From CNN International: Two terror suspects killed in a shootout in eastern Belgium this week were among more than a dozen people rounded up in across-the-country raids designed to stop a group’s allegedly imminent attack — a plot to kill Belgian police in streets and stations — the nation’s federal prosecutor said Friday. The alleged […]
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