♦ 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.
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 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.
♦ 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.
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.