72 DHS Employees Listed On Terror Watch List
At least 72 employees at the Department of Homeland Security are listed on the U.S. terrorist watch list, according to a Democratic lawmaker.
Rep. Stephen...
U.S. Bioterrorism Detection Program Deemed Unreliable
DHS’s BioWatch program aims to provide early indication of an aerosolized biological weapon attack. Until April 2014, DHS pursued a next-generation autonomous detection technology...
San Bernardino Shooter Was In Touch With International Terrorism Subject
Syed Rizwan Farook, the 28-year man who, with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed fourteen and injured twenty-one people in a San Bernardino social service...
US Flags More Than 500 For National Security Concerns
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data show that every day, hundreds of travelers going through airports, seaports, and land border crossings are flagged...
Study Reveals Increasing Number of ISIS Supporters in US
Authorities in the U.S. have arrested more than 50 people so far this year for activities related to the Islamic State of Iraq and...
Jewish Communities at Risk in Wake of Recent Paris Attacks
US Department of Homeland Security officials advised Jewish communities to initiate or review security maintenance in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in...
Syrian Refugees Attemp To Enter US
Eight Syrians have been detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents as they tried to enter the United States from Texas in the Laredo Sector.
The...
Who Is Tracking Your Phone?
It is now widely known that governments the world over eavesdrop on citizens’ electronic communication. Until last year, governmental spying was thought to be...
Pentagon’s Global Hawk Reaches “500-Sortie Milestone”
In a world first, the US Air Force’s EQ-4 Global Hawk drone has completed its 500th flight.
After nearly 13,000 flight hours, the Global Hawk...
US Plans Cyber War-Games Against Adversaries
Several high-profile, suspected government-backed cyber attacks on the US might have caused a bit of a shift in the American combat strategy. After countless...
Programming With The Enemy
In a cost-saving move, Pentagon contractors subcontracted their work to the Russians, a four-year probe concludes.
The probe was started in 2011 after John C...
Cold War Foes Sinking Deeper into Syrian Quagmire
Konstantin Bodragin
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has presented President Obama with a plan to put boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq. According...
TSA Lets Weapons Slip Through Screening 95% Of Cases
Since its creation almost 14 years ago, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has had one goal...
USA Fears The Enemy Within
The House Homeland Security Committee has released its Terror Threat Snapshot for November, and it paints an increasingly alarming picture.
The November snapshot focuses on homegrown...
US Air Force Contract Raises Questions And Protests
Northrop Grumman has won the contract to build the US Air Force’s next-generation Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B). Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Air...
Spying Fuels Chinese Jets’ Development
Long gone are the days when China was so far lagging behind the West in technological development that it was barely even in the...
US Worried Over Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables
Every time you use the internet - watching videos, sending e-mails, browsing the web - data is being sent and received through an intricate...
Boeing Develops EMP Weapon
You may have thought that Boeing is all about airplanes, but the company has a less known department called Boeing Phantom Works. This department...
US Defence Firm’s Secretive Agreement With Iran
Details emerged this week of a secretive deal between GTT Communications Inc, a firm closely associated with the American intelligence community, and the Government...
South Korea Remains Under US Protection Against North
North Korea is an "up-close, dangerous and continuing threat,” said U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter at a news conference with his South Korean counterpart,...
IS Oilfields Remain Operative Despite US, Russian Airstrikes
Oil sales — the extremists’ largest single source of continual income — are a key reason the Islamic State has been able to maintain...
The U.S Adapts The Israeli Layered Missile Defense System
The US has conducted a $230 million worth test of a layered missile defense system, which has the ability of Aegis and THAAD weapons...
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A File-Notification Loophole Exposes Activity Across Major Operating Systems
Operating systems constantly monitor files so applications can react when something changes. A program may need to know when a file is created, modified...
