The technique that's so useful for the Department of Homeland Security in detecting terrorist threats might be putting personal information at risk due to the lack of executive review and transparency of data mining systems.The U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) was appointed to assess policies for evalu... |
22 October 2011
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The Department of Homeland Security has released a report on Anonymous, advising US federal, state and local government departments and agencies, as well as their private sector partners, to review their defences.The unclassified report [pdf] put together by DHS' National Cybersecurity & Communications Integrati... |
3 August 2011
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security fears that attackers might use public knowledge about Stuxnet to create modified versions of the industrial sabotage malware to target critical infrastructure in the country.According to Wired, these concerns were expressed yesterday by Bobbie Stempfley, acting assistant secre... |
27 July 2011
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The Department of Homeland Security has unsuccessfully tried to get Mozilla to remove an extension called MafiaaFire Redirector from its official add-ons repository.The incident was revealed by Harvey Anderson, Mozilla's general counsel and vice president of business affairs, who said the DHS complained th... |
6 May 2011
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According to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), during President Obama's inauguration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established a special program to collect and analyze social networking data.Called the "Social Networking Monitoring Center" (SNMC), the division was taske... |
16 October 2010
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in the sixteen members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) yesterday. Amongst them is Jeff Moss, the founder of the Black Hat and DEFCON hacking conventions. Moss, who is known to his fellow hackers as "Dark Tangent," has a BA in Cri... |
6 June 2009
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released, on September 16, a report that outlines the problems found and recommendations made following an investigation into how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) handles its cybersecurity responsibilities. One particular subject concerned the security notifications... |
19 September 2008
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Flight security has become increasingly important worldwide, but the concerns of the United States regarding this matter really lead to practical solutions. All citizens from the countries that have joined the Visa Waiver Program would have to get the thumbs up from the Department of Homeland Security before embarkin... |
28 July 2008
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