From HSToday: You are undoubtedly familiar with the FBI’s “most-wanted” list of fugitives who include terrorists, murderers, drug traffickers, kidnappers and people who’ve committed crimes against children, bank robbers and white collar criminals. What you may not know is that the FBI also publishes a “cyber most-wanted” list of cyber criminals. Who tops the cyber-most […]
From The Daily Caller: A Department of Homeland Security agent testified Thursday that she nearly lost custody of her 1-year-old adopted daughter and was told that she could not own a personal firearm after she voiced concerns about a little known federal program that grants green cards to foreign investors. Taylor Johnson, a senior special […]
From Bloomberg: Investigators found 73 people were cleared by the Transportation Security Administration to work in sensitive jobs at U.S. airports despite possible links to terrorism in their backgrounds, according to a government report made public on Monday. The lapse was partly due to the TSA not having access to all names on the federal […]
From HSToday: A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter that was forced to make an emergency landing after reportedly being struck by at least three bullets believed fired from an automatic weapon by narco-traffickers in Mexico during a counterdrug operation near Laredo, Texas isn’t the first time CBP choppers have been attacked and forced to […]
From NextGov: More than two years ago, an inspector general audit discovered radio silence between the many components of the Department of Homeland Security. Today, little has changed. In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the department spent $430 million on radios to facilitate communication between each of its components should a future […]
From The Daily Beast: Last week, the United Nations envoy to Libya, Bernardino León, warned at another round of peace talks endeavoring to reach a deal between Libya’s two rival regimes that the country is “really at the limit” and is on the verge of becoming a failed state…And while the Libyans squabble and clash, […]
From The Hill: House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said on Sunday that evidence points toward Chinese involvement in a federal data breach earlier this year…The White House revealed on Thursday that hackers had exposed the private data of 4 million current and former federal employees last April. McCaul said on Sunday that the […]
From The Washington Post: The Transportation Security Administration offers a simple bargain: It demands our shoes, belts, wallets, time and, in some cases, dignity in return for it making air travel safer. But there’s reason to wonder whether the TSA is keeping up its end of the bargain. ABC News disclosed that undercover government investigators […]
From Bloomberg: Congress voted to stop the National Security Agency from collecting bulk records on Americans’ phone calls almost two years after Edward Snowden began revealing details of classified U.S. government spy programs. The Senate voted 67-32 Tuesday to limit NSA spying while reviving three other anti-terrorism surveillance programs that expired Monday. The House passed […]
From Government Executive: In the hot seat before a Senate panel probing the recent data breach of the Internal Revenue Service, Commissioner John Koskinen on Tuesday said the recent theft of personal identifying information of more than 100,000 taxpayers was not related to his agency’s budget crunch. “I don’t want everyone to think every problem […]
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