From HSToday: The House Homeland Security Committee has released its Terror Threat Snapshot for November, and it paints an increasingly alarming picture. The November snapshot focuses on homegrown Islamist extremism, terror attack plots against the West, foreign fighters, foreign Jihadist networks and terrorists’ exploitation of Syrian refugee flows.
From Defense One: The White House last week issued a broad new action plan for closing persistent cybersecurity gaps that have plagued federal agencies for years…The “Cybersecurity Strategy and Implementation Plan for the Federal Civilian Government” presents a long-term framework for shoring up agencies’ online security — but presents a waterfall of new deadlines in […]
From The Hill: Lawmakers on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee pressed Transportation Security Administration officials on “alarming” airport security gaps that federal watchdogs have said have been exposed in recent internal tests…The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a new report this week that found “TSA has not consistently evaluated the overall effectiveness of […]
From HSToday: The UK government’s new one-nation Counter-Extremism Strategy launches today, October 19, to confront and defeat all forms of extremism. Parents concerned their 16 and 17 year old children are at risk of traveling abroad under the influence of extremists will be able to apply to have their passports removed, Prime Minister David Cameron […]
From The New York Post: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email scandal didn’t stop the head of the CIA from using his own personal AOL account to stash work-related documents, according to a stoner high school student who claims to have hacked into them. CIA Director John Brennan’s private account held sensitive files — including his 47-page […]
From The Stack: Concerns have been raised with respect to the potential threat of cyber attacks at United States ports which could release dangerous chemicals. The potential risk was raised by the Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich. Miller said that as a result of asserted security gaps left unfixed by the Department of Homeland Security, a […]
From The National Law Review: It appears that the Senate may celebrate the fact that October has been designated as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month by finally considering the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA/S. 754) on the Senate floor. The timing for the bill’s consideration is dependent on when the Senate finishes its debate of the […]
From The Wall Street Journal: The secretary of Homeland Security voiced confidence Monday in the man running the Secret Service, who is the focus of a newly reopened probe into the misuse of private information about a lawmaker who has criticized the agency. Secretary Jeh Johnson appeared with Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy to praise […]
From WRIC (Virginia ABC affiliate): With heavy rains expected Thursday and Friday and the threat of Hurricane Joaquin arriving this weekend, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has declared a state of emergency. The Executive Order, which operates retroactively to Tuesday, September 29, allows Virginia state and local emergency responders to begin to prepare for the effects […]
From HSToday: Khaled Batarfi, the senior commander of one of Al Qaeda’s most dangerous franchises, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), called on Muslims and jihadi groups to support the mujahideen in Palestine and making attacking the US a “top priority” in a video statement released Tuesday by Al Malahem, AQAP’s media arm.
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