Smart Grid still not immune to cyber attacks – Homeland Security News Wire On Tuesday President Obama announced a $3.4 billion government funding aimed to spur a quicker adoption by states, localities, and companies of smart grid technology; this technology introduces important efficiencies and savings — but it also introduces new cyber vulnerabilities
Homeland Security Today – preparedness and security news – UPDATED – Radical Islamic Group Mosque Imam Killed in FBI Shootout Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the imam of Masjid Al Haqq, a Detroit mosque of the National Ummah, a 20-year-old radical Islamic group that “may have ties to charities linked to terrorism financing,” according to a 2009 […]
They say the first step in battling addiction is admitting you have a problem. Congress has yet to take that step in facing its problem with homeland security grant funding. On Tuesday, FEMA’s Deputy Administrator, Timothy Manning, testified in the House Homeland Security Committee on FEMA’s attempts to measure the effectiveness of the DHS grants program. The Committee’s main criticism concerned the lack of methodologies and metrics for measuring the program’s effectiveness.
In a letter to Congress today, a coalition of privacy advocates have called on Congress to investigate the DHS Privacy Office. The gravamen of their complaint is that the Privacy Office is insufficiently independent from the Department and isn’t protecting privacy. Proof of this, they say, lies in the Privacy Office’s approval of Privacy Impact Assessments for several programs (e.g. Whole Body Imaging) that allegedly erode privacy interests.
It used to be — not all that long ago — that only teens and the terminally hip used the social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
One of the important challenges of President Obama’s administration is to sell the continuation of our “overseas contingency operation” (or perhaps FATAVE) in Afghanistan to an increasingly disenchanted audience at home and abroad.
The FBI announced the arrests of two men Tuesday on terrorism-related charges stemming from a purported plot to attack the Danish newspaper that published a dozen controversial cartoons in 2005 depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad, including one in which he has a bomb nestled in the turban on his head.
The rail, ferries and tunnels in Hampton Roads are getting extra attention. On Tuesday morning, dozens of law enforcement agents greeted drivers at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. The substantial traffic stop included a driver’s license check as well as explosive and drug sniffing dogs.
Private contracting by DHS – averaging more than $12 billion annually – now forms a fundamental part of a new national security complex comprising corporations with major intelligence, military, and homeland security divisions.
Recently, Delta Airlines (formerly Northwest) settled a lawsuit filed by six imams who claimed they were profiled for their religion rather than suspicious behavior. They were subsequently removed from a flight and questioned by authorities. In July, a federal judge sent a strong message that the airline lacked probable cause to remove the imams from the flight by ruling that Delta could be held liable for civil damages. Delta settled with the Muslim clerics out of court.
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