Tag: dhs
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DHS Cyber Bill Would Codify Executive Emergency Powers
The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 (PC-NNA … PC Nana?) is “designed to bring together the disjointed efforts of multiple federal agencies and departments to prevent cyber theft, intrusions, and attacks across the federal government and the private sector,” its chief author, Sen. Joe Lieberman, will say in prepared remarks today.
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Are Drones Coming to US Skies?
It likely is just a matter of time before unmanned aircraft, including the type being used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, are flying over America’s friendly skies.
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Police State Updates: Global Government Gone Wild
War on terror morphs into a diabolical assault on civil rights // Surveillance cameras installed at the Georgia Guidestones // Troops invade Chicago (for training) // TSA now handling watch list checks for all domestic flights
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police state updates: secret rooms, secret files
US postal service expands construction of secret rooms* homegrown terrorist threat to be part of national security strategy* document says number of attempted attacks on US is at all-time high* the toronto g20 police state crackdown* toronto gets ‘sound cannons’ for g20* canada: $1b on summit security well worth it* darpa cam spots the ‘non-cooperative’*…
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Police State Updates: Tattle On the Cattle
TSA agent steals cash from wheelchair-bound woman // New terror monitors: parking attendants // UC Berkeley asking incoming students for DNA // UK to kill national ID card program
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FEMA/DHS Running ‘National Level Exercise 2010’ May 17-18
The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will conduct National Level Exercise (NLE) 2010 on May 17-18. NLE 2010 will engage federal, state and local partners in a series of events and opportunities to demonstrate and assess federal emergency preparedness capabilities pertaining to a simulated terrorist attack scenario involving an improvised nuclear…
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Police States Updates: NYCCTV, ISIS & Psycho Pig Rampage
Bloomberg wants ‘Big Brother Britain’ for NYC // White House denies reports of spy planes over NYC // Homeland Security tests 360-degree video cam: ‘Imaging system for immersive surveillance’ – ISIS sees all // Obama administration exploits Miranda loophole // Police plan to pillage & terrify community during ‘Operation: Psycho Pig Rampage’
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Time Bomb In Times Square Sparks Homeland Lockdown
new york city police defuse car bomb in times square from reuters: Police have “rendered safe” a car bomb found inside a sport utility vehicle that triggered the evacuation of New York’s Times Square on Saturday night in an incident that the city’s mayor said early on Sunday could have turned into a very deadly…
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Ex-TSA Worker Sent Virus To Sabotage Terror Watchlist Computers
Federal prosecutors have charged a former Transportation Security Administration employee with attempting to sabotage terror watch list computers. Douglas Duchak, 46, of Colorado Springs, faces two charges of attempting to damage protected TSA computers.
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tsa accidentally reveals airport security secrets
download: transportation security admin: screening procedures – standard operating procedures, 1 may ’08 [1.9mb PDF] from kurt nimmo: Apparently the legal staff at the Transportation Security Administration are as clueless and inept as the guys who search you at the airport. The TSA released a manual for flight and other screening procedures and thought they…
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defcon 11/19: arms race, web games, cern & biometrics
raytheon to provide cybersecurity across dod networks* obama said to be close again to naming cybersecurity chief*place your bets: is cyber czar announcement really near?*US cyber defenses full of holes* senate panel: 80% of cyber attacks preventable*web security company warns of ‘cyber arms race’* icann attendees: america, surrender the root zone file!*nasa: the moon is…
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ultrasecret nsa has conspicuous role in new cybercenter
from newsweek: Congress and civil libertarians have always been twitchy about involving the ultrasecretive National Security Agency—masters of electronic spying—more deeply in domestic security matters. Revelations that George W. Bush authorized the NSA (Motto: Never Say Anything) in the wake of 9/11 to expand warrantless electronic eavesdropping on Americans caused heartburn for both intelligence officials…
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defcon 10/29: smart grid, nsa supercenters & surveillance
obama announces stimulus funding for the ‘smart grid’*obama invests $3.4b in US electricity grid*feds’ smart grid race leaves cybersecurity in the dust*flashback: corbett report: episode103 – the smart grid cometh*cyberattacks: espionage now, sabotage soon*nsa supercenters to store americans’ private data permanently*government to build $1.5b cybersecurity data center*dhs to announce cyber merger*scan of internet uncovers 1000s…