Morning Security Brief: Small Plane Terrorism, Terrorism Arrests in U.K., DHS Loses Computers, Bomb-Sniffing Dog, & More

♦ Joseph Stack's terrorist attack last week against an IRS building in Austin, Texas, has revived the debate over regulating small private airplanes, reports USA Today. The paper reports the TSA will review the damage of Stack's attack to determine whether new security measures are necessary. "To me, it's just a risk you're going to have to accept," aviation-security consultant Rich Roth said. "There's nothing we could really do short of saying you guys can't fly planes."

♦ Terrorism-related arrests in the United Kingdom were up in 2009 over the previous year, reports BBC.com. In the period ending Sept. 2009, 201 individuals were arrested on suspicion of terrorism. During the previous year, U.K. authorities arrested 178 people. Police say the numbers show their ability to disrupt terrorist plots while civil libertarians argue the number of charges actually filed shows the terrorist threat has been overblown.

♦ Two Department of Homeland Security agencies lost nearly 1,000 computers in fiscal year 2008, reports FoxNews.com. The losses by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) totaled $13.3 million.

♦ In light of the Killer Whale tragedy at SeaWorld on Wednesday, the Telegraph's Peter Wedderburn notes animals ability to save human lives too. Case in point: a black labrador named Treo. This week the dog "received the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross for preventing the deaths of soldiers in Afghanistan by sniffing out roadside bombs," Wedderburn writes.

♦ Newark Liberty International Airport will fit its security cameras with alarms to notify security personnel if the cameras malfunction, reports the Associated Press. The upgrade comes after a man slipped past a security checkpoint and closed the terminal, resulting in flight delays that reverberated around the country. After the incident, officials discovered that the cameras were not storing images for days.