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Cyber Security Awareness Month? That's $388 billion worth of awareness

eSoft, Inc. | Cyber Security Awareness – Cyber Crime Cyber Crime is this weeks’ topic for National Cyber Security Awareness Month. A recent study by Norton calculated the annual cost of global cybercrime at $114 billion dollars. Add in the time expense in dealing with cyber crime experiences and this amount surges to $388 billion […]

U.S. Isn’t Ready for Large Biological Attack

U.S. Isn’t Ready for Large Biological Attack, Officials Say – Businessweek The U.S. isn’t prepared to respond to a pandemic or large biological attack, federal officials said. “We’re not ready for a global catastrophe involving” a pathogen, Tara O’Toole, undersecretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, said today at a Senate […]

ICE removes most illegals in agency history

ICE removes most illegals in agency history – Washington Times U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed 396,906 illegal immigrants from the United Statesin fiscal 2011, the largest number in the agency’s history. Nearly 55 percent of them were identified as having been convicted of felonies or misdemeanors.

DHS – Anonymous Interested in Hacking Nation’s Infrastructure

DHS – Anonymous Interested in Hacking Nation’s Infrastructure : Homeland Security News The hacker collective known as Anonymous has expressed interest in hacking industrial systems that control critical infrastructures, such as gas and oil pipelines, chemical plants and water and sewage treatment facilities, according to a Department of Homeland Security bulletin. But DHS doubts the […]

A History of Violence – Does anyone still doubt Iran is a terrorist state?

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen and a commander in Iran’s Quds Force had been charged in New York for their alleged roles in a plot to murder the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir, represents a brazen escalation in Iran’s struggle for regional dominance. But Iran’s willingness to use brutal means to achieve its foreign-policy goals is nothing new: Since the creation of the Islamic Republic, U.S. intelligence agencies have repeatedly identified terrorism as one of the regime’s signature calling cards.

The Case for Forensic Polygraph Testing in Post-Adjudication Sexual Offender Examination and Management

By Ken Blackstone
In 1973, Judge John C. Beatty, Jr. was the first to order the use of the polygraph in the management of convicted sexual offenders. Today, the number of registered sex offenders in the U.S. and its territories exceeds half a million and they are all under some form of management. Scientifically based studies have concluded that the carefully administered, “forensic” polygraph exam, conducted properly and optimally by a qualified examiner, is 89 to 92 percent accurate. However, when any reduction from the disciplined rigors of forensic polygraph examination occurs, the reliability of the results can and must be called into question.

TSA expands testing of 'chat-down' program

TSA expands testing of ‘chat-down’ program – The Hill’s Transportation Report The Transportation Security Administration added a second airport to its behavior-detection interview program, dubbed “chat downs” by critics. TSA tested the program this summer at Boston’s Logan Airport, interviewing travelers as a means of assessing suspicious behavior by their reactions to certain questions.

Herman Cain Proposes Electrified Border Fence As Immigration Reform, Says He Was Joking

Herman Cain Proposes Electrified Border Fence As Immigration Reform, Says He Was Joking GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain came down hard on immigration Saturday on the campaign trail, telling crowds in Tennessee that part of his policy would be to build an electrified fence on the Mexican border that could potentially kill anyone trying to […]

The Occupation of Wall Street – Does This Sound Familiar?

Like a lot of Americans, I have been watching the Occupy Wall Street drama over the past couple of weeks. Many of these Wall Street folks look like well-intentioned people exercising their first amendment rights. Others look like the kinds of counterculture “revolutionary” people who the law enforcement community was forced to deal with back in the 60s and 70s. Let’s make no mistake about it – underneath some of this protest behavior there will be a small number of violent individuals looking for an opportunity or a reason to act out.

An Evolution in the National Security Threats from the Mexican Drug Cartels and Iran?

By Rob Strayer
The arrest of a dual Iranian-American citizen for soliciting a Mexican drug cartel member (who turned out to be a DEA informant) to commit a terrorist act on U.S. soil is notable for what it says about the drug cartels’ use of flagrant violence and the intentions of the government of Iran. This plot confirms long-held fears about transnational narco-trafficking enterprises – that their channels for moving drugs, money, and weapons across the U.S. and other borders could also be used to smuggle terrorists or weapons of mass destruction into the United States.