Feb 09, 2010 -

♦ Fifty-thousand Californians are worrying about identity theft after the California Department of Health Care Services mailed letters to residents with their Social Security numbers listed on the outside of the envelope.

♦ The deputy chief of an al Qaeda-inspired group in Yemen calls for attacks against Saudi Arabia and the United States.

♦ USA Today takes a look at the unprecedented cross-border security partnership between the United States and Canada to protect next week's fast approaching Winter Olympics.

♦ The Department of Homeland Security drafted threat assessments on law-abiding protesters on both sides of the abortion debate in Wisconsin last year.

♦ Another scare at Detroit Metro Airport closed a portion of a terminal yesterday, after a man without a ticket and baggage walked through security without being screened.

NOTE: Security Management offices are closed again today due to the weekend blizzard and another approaching storm.

Feb 08, 2010 -

♦ Public safety records reveal there were no safety problems at the Connecticut power plant where an explosion occurred yesterday, reports The New York Times.

♦ A historic blizzard shutters the federal government on Monday while the rest of the Mid-Atlantic states dig out.

♦ The U.S. military is still trying to determine whether it can trust some Islamists and not others after the Fort Hood massacre.

♦ The Justice Department's specialized unit to interrogate high-value terrorism suspects is up and running.

♦ The TSA wants to scale back its controversial Large Aircraft Security Program due to industry backlash.

Feb 05, 2010 -In anticipation of a major winter storm expected to dump up to 2 feet of snow on the Washington, D.C., area, our office is closing early. Security Management will return Monday.

Feb 05, 2010 -

♦ Federal air marshals tell CNN that they are assigned "short-haul flights" rather than international high-risk flights to make the Federal Air Marshal Service look more productive on paper.

♦ The 23-year-old jihadist that tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas has told federal investigators that a radical American cleric in Yemen, also linked to the Fort Hood shooting rampage, directed him to conduct the attack.

♦ If you're one of the 45 million Americans still using Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 6, it's time to upgrade to version 8.

♦ During the down economy, Frost & Sullivan says there's one market that has seen muscular growth: homeland security.

♦ Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told lawmakers that more and more American Muslims are radicalizing but that their attention is directed overseas.

Feb 04, 2010 -COMMENT: The United States must learn to stop and think—rather than react—after an attack if it wants to defeat jihadist terrorists.

Feb 04, 2010 -In Bogota, Colombia, Miguel Caballero has found a fashion niche that may make him the choice tailor to VIPs around the world.

Feb 04, 2010 -

♦ Mayor Michael Bloomberg presses Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for more money to defend New York City from nuclear terrorism.

♦ A Pakistani newspaper calls the United States use of aerial drones over Pakistani soil terrorism.

♦ The National Security Agency will partner with Google to investigate a recent cyberattack that the company alleges originated in China.

♦ TIME magazine wants to know: Where was the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) when the Underwear Bomber was arrested on Christmas?

♦ A cyberattack could deliver a crippling blow to the United States, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the House Intelligence Committee yesterday.

 

Feb 03, 2010 -The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must pay closer attention to whether passengers are comfortable with future screening technologies before they are deployed to airports, a lawmaker said today.

Feb 03, 2010 -

♦ Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday that another terrorist attack is "certain" within the next three to six months. The other heads of the major U.S. intelligence agencies concurred.

♦TSA is investigating an incident at San Diego International Airport where a man impersonating a federal officer kidnapped a woman, led her through TSA security, and then put her on-board a flight to the Philippines.

♦ Signal magazine examines how the DC Police Department is leveraging information technology to protect the nation's capital from terrorism.

♦ Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano tells a radio station that DHS wants to prevent someone from bringing an IED to the Super Bowl.

♦ Should anonymity on the Internet be banned? Two IT security experts, Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum, debate.

Feb 02, 2010 -In its proposed 2011 budget for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Obama Administration has requested nearly $1 billion to secure the nation's airports from terrorism-related threats on the heels of Christmas Day's botched attack by a young jihadist from Nigeria.