U.S. Expands Airport Special Lanes Program
The TSA is expanding its PreCheck screening program to passengers on international airlines. Air Canada is the first international carrier to join the list...
The Future of Airport Security
The combination of terror threat, the shortcomings of existing technologies and governments’ willingness to spend, provide for a new fast growing Airport Security market...
Israeli Innovation Protects Airports Against Birds
An Israeli optical-radar system protects airport runways against birds and other foreign objects * The system is already operational in Israel's Ben Gurion Airport,...
New Scanner May End Aviation Liquid Restrictions
A new machine, capable of identifying the chemical composition of liquids sealed within non-metallic containers without opening them, has been developed by Cobalt Light...
Canada, Israel, U.S. to Conduct Joint Aviation Drill
Israel, the United States and Canada will conduct a joint aviation drill, the first of its kind, aimed at protecting civil aviation against aerial...
Miami’s Airport: How to Secure a Monster
How do you keep airport runways safe and clean? That's how it's done at Miami's huge airport.
The presence of unidentified objects, people, vehicles and...
The Stowaway Teen: Signs of Warning for Global Aviation
The latest incident, where a young teen managed to infiltrate an American airports and sneak aboard a plane, highlights the assessments made by Israeli...
Global Aviation is More Fragile than We Thought
The Icelandic volcano eruption of 2010 forced most European airports to shut down for days, affecting more than 100,000 passengers. True, that was an...
Experts Call for Strict Control on Sniper Rifles
Efforts are intensifying to keep the most deadly and powerful sniper rifles on the market out of the hands of terrorists to protect Illinois...
Report: Countries Neglect Passport Theft
Countries do not report stolen or lost passports to Interpol * “This is a threat to civilian aviation security”, according to U.S. DHS experts.
Many...
Canada Invests in Explosives Detection
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) contracted L-3 Security & Detection Systems to supply its high-speed eXaminer XLB explosives detection systems.
The total value...
App Exploit Could Allow Hackers Free Flights
A security student has discovered a method to fly for free across Europe by generating fake boarding documents designed for Apple’s Passbook app
A 18...
U.S. Robotic Submarine Joins Search for MH370
The Pentagon sent a Bluefin unmanned submarine to join the search for the flight recorders of the vanished Malaysian flight
The Pentagon sent its Bluefin...
The TSA Dilemma – Technology or Body Language
TSA has spent roughly $1 billion training thousands of “behavior detection officers” as part of the Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program....
iHLS TV – Offshore and Perimeter Security Edition
Articles and issues discussed in this episode:
Israel protects its offshore gas reservoirs
New security rules for U.S. electric utilities
Experts: Additional security for U.S. airports won't...
Missile Threats Against Civil Aviation
By Boaz Zalmanovicz
The nature of terror and guerilla warfare requires using mobile, easily concealable weapons; shoulder-launched missiles fit the description perfectly. More than 700,000...
Was the Malaysian Plane Hacked? Probably Not
The mysterious vanishing of the Malaysian flight raised a startling amount of rumors and theories of all kinds. While most are at least somewhat...
Big Brother in Britain: Police UAVs
The trend is clear- Police forces want UASs for performing their mission. Recently the Sussex police in England began to use a small UAS to...
New in Ben Gurion Airport: Automatic Exit Screening
The new HBS automatic security screening system checks the baggage of all exiting passengers
By iHLS NewsDesk
All the suitcases belonging to exiting passengers in the...
Malay Crash Leads to British Security Fears
The use of false passports by two passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which crashed a couple of days ago have highlighted the fact...
Malaysia Flight 370: Stolen Passports Threaten Aviation Security
Israeli experts: The growing use of stolen or forged passports is a danger to aviation security
They added that the only way to overcome this...
Israeli Experts Warn: Don’t Reduce Security on Planes
The Department of Homeland Security has reduced the number of Federal Air Marshals — plain-clothed officers whose job is to protect aircraft from terrorists...
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A New Quantum Breakthrough Could Change Signal Detection on the Battlefield
Modern military and civilian communications environments are becoming increasingly crowded. Drones, radios, sensors, satellites, electronic warfare systems, and wireless networks all compete for space...
