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Daily Headline : Crime

Morning Security Brief: Taliban Attacks Kabul Hotel, Wildlife Protection Stripped from Border Areas, Paypal Bounty Program

06/22/2012 - The death toll from the Taliban’s attack on a Kabul hotel on Thursday reaches 20. The House passes a bill giving border security priority over protecting the environment. PayPal offers money to find bugs. And more.
Daily Headline : IT Security

Google's New Hacking Alert Raises Questions From Users

06/07/2012 - Google’s security blog left a lot of questions unanswered when it announced that the company would begin alerting some of its users when their computers or accounts were being targeted by state-sponsored attackers.
Daily Headline : International

Nigeria’s Security Challenges

06/01/2012 - Government corruption, gangs, and terrorism are among the challenges facing Nigeria and threatening its stability.
Legal Report: Legal Issues

Trespassing

05/29/2012 - A new law (P.L. 112-98) strengthens penalties for trespassing on certain federal properties. Current federal law prohibits unauthorized entry to any building or grounds where the President is visiting. However, there was no federal law specifically prohibiting unlawful entry to the White House and its grounds or the vice president’s residence and its grounds.
Daily Headline : Research & Studies

Report: Biometric Data Being Collected with 'Little to No Standards, Oversight, or Transparency'

05/23/2012 - The extensive collection and sharing of biometric information among government agencies is detrimental to both immigrant communities and U.S. citizens because of possible errors and a breakdown of privacy, says a joint white paper released by the Immigration Policy Center and Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Daily Headline : Drug Control

Most Men Arrested Test Positive for Drugs

05/18/2012 - In some areas, as high as 81 percent of adult males arrested test positive for drugs at the time of arrest, according to a drug abuse monitoring report released by the White House on Thursday.
Daily Headline : Terrorism

Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Train to Detect 'Mother of Satan'

05/14/2012 - Peroxide-based explosives are one of the newer threats domestically and abroad, said Cody Monday, an ATF dog trainer. ATF teams travel nationwide to train and certify law enforcement and military explosives detection dogs.
Daily Headline : Cybercrime

2011 Internet Crime Report Released

05/10/2012 - Internet users were scammed out of more than $485 million in 2011, according to the latest data released by the Internet Crime Complain Center on Thursday.
Daily Headline : IT Security

Morning Security Brief: Russia Foils Terrorist Attack, Cruise Line Biothreat Scare, Cybersecurity Goes Offensive, and More

05/10/2012 - Russia says it has foiled an attack planned on the city slated to host the 2014 Winter Games. A neurosurgeon is removed from a cruise ship after someone tweets that he’s planning a biological attack. Cybersecurity firms moving into offensive roles. And more.
Daily Headline : Privacy

Morning Security Brief: EU to Vote on Information Sharing, Gang Trademarks Logo, OSX Security, and More

04/19/2012 - EU Parliament votes today on a controversial information sharing deal with the U.S. Motorcycle Club uses trademark to weed out undercover officers. Macs users should use antivirus software now, commenter says. And more.
Daily Headline : Intelligence

Former CIA Officer Indicted for Leaking Classified Information

04/06/2012 - Former CIA officer and Huffington Post blogger John Kiriakou was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury for repeatedly providing journalists with classified information.
Daily Headline : Crime

Fraudulent Tax Returns Provide Gangs with a Low-Risk Source of Income

04/05/2012 - This year’s tax deadline is Tuesday April 17. Among the millions of documents headed to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) between now and then are an increasing number of returns from tax-savvy gang members who have learned to exploit the system.
Legal Report: Public-Private Partnerships

First Responders

03/23/2012 - A bill (S.B. 55) in the Kentucky legislature would permit jurisdictions in the state to enter into mutual-aid agreements with other states to share first-responder personnel in case of an emergency. The bill would also extend the same immunity to these first responders as is afforded to those from within Kentucky.
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