From The Hill: In the wake of the recent cyber attack on OPM, one component of DHS has stood out as a leader in cybersecurity, but it is not NPPD. Instead, it is the U.S. Coast Guard, which under the leadership of the Commandant Admiral Paul F. Zukunft released a complex cyber strategy outlining a […]
From NextGov: The National Archives and Records Administration recently detected unauthorized activity on three desktops indicative of the same hack that extracted sensitive details on millions of current and former federal employees, government officials said Monday. The revelation suggests the breadth of one of the most damaging cyber assaults known is wider than officials have […]
From Federal News Radio: During World War II, lots of GIs got “Dear John Letters” from their back home sweethearts. At least in the movies. Later, when dumped by a boyfriend, women were urged to see the 2009 masterpiece “He’s Just Not That Into You”. Jerry Seinfeld ended relationships using the “It’s not you, its […]
From HSToday: The “Terror Threat Snapshot” is a new, regular monthly product of the House Committee on Homeland Security that will track “the escalating and grave threat environment facing the United States, said committee chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas). McCaul said the Terror Threat Snapshot will be kept up to date on the committee’s website, and […]
From Business Insider: US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter recently told a Washington committee that the military was falling far short of its training goals in Iraq…The training failures highlight a massive contradiction that is crippling Obama’s strategy to combat Sunni extremist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. While the president insists that Sunnis […]
From The Boston Herald: Cyber warfare is the United States’ “No. 1 threat,” according to leading national security experts who are blasting the government for failing to protect the records of millions of federal employees at the hands of suspected Chinese hackers — and charging that the U.S. needs to respond more vigorously…U.S. and Chinese […]
From The Daily Beast: Fear and concern over ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks on U.S. soil has been turned up a notch in the last couple months, thanks to ISIS’ thriving social media campaign. A State Department report released Friday, officially lists ISIS as the world’s leading terror organization, citing not only the rapid advance and particular […]
From The Daily Beast: The head of al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen, which U.S. officials say poses the greatest terrorist threat to America, has been killed in a U.S. drone strike, according to Yemeni media reports and statements from the terrorist organization’s members. If Nasir al-Wuhayshi was killed—a claim that U.S. officials are so far […]
From The Hill: The leader of the House Homeland Security Committee is pushing back against the Obama administration’s plan to admit thousands of Syrian refugees into the U.S. at a faster rate. “We are increasingly concerned by the decision to accelerate the resettlement of thousands of Syrian refugees here in the United States despite the […]
From The Associated Press: As many as 390,000 current and former Homeland Security Department employees, contractors and job applicants may have had their private data compromised in a newly disclosed computer hack discovered last year. DHS spokesman S.Y. Lee said internal notices about the data breach discovered in September at KeyPoint Government Solutions Inc. were […]
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