Counter Terror

Police departments in the world have been experimenting the use of facial recognition technologies during events with massive crowds in an attempt to prevent...

Robotic vehicles for security purposes adapted from civilian-use models are not rare. Now, Digital Concepts Engineering is launching the X-2 Unmanned Ground Vehicle fitted...

The weaponization of small and cheap consumer drones, including dropping improvised explosive devices, has urged conventional armies to look for new countermeasures and rapidly...

 The U.S. administration wants to get out of Afghanistan and is making mistakes in the process. This is the view of an American review...

US Visitor Surveillance System used for Emotional Healing Ostensibly, the motivation behind storing the fingerprints of almost all foreign visitors to the US is in...

The White House is taking steps to rein in commercial drone flights over U.S. airspace amid concerns that the tiny, flying machines will be...

A DHS Intelligence bulletin starkly warns it may not be possible to stop 3D-printed guns from being made – or from getting past security...

A top secret intelligence budget justification leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden depicts a U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) awash in unprecedented amounts of...

The U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) said recently that DHS may have wasted $1 billion on the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Screening of Passengers...

The Israeli Air Force struck terrorist targets in Gaza in retaliation for the rocket fired last night at the Israeli city of Ashkelon. The...

The New York police unit in charge of collecting intelligence among local Muslims was shut down. The New York Police Department shut down a special unit operating...

Articles and issues mentioned in this episode: Thousands of foreign fighters in Syria hold European passports New and improved sensors for drones Hackers attack Israeli networks New Israeli...

iHLS Israel Homeland Security In this weekly report (4 November 2014): The FBIs Next Gen system Airborne intelligence India's defense deal Gun violence in the US Bio-hazard protective gear

With the number of malware attacks rising sharply in 2013, and an estimated 15 million mobile devices worldwide infected at any one time, the...

After years of informally using social networking sites and Internet activity in general to find, monitor and sometimes manipulate terrorist suspects, U.S. SOCOM (Special...

Many defence experts are worried about the increasing prevalence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and their potential to be used for spying or terrorist...

Swiss police were pictured in Davos testing anti-drone jammers, which resemble massive machine guns, as part of security preparations for the World Economic Forum....

The terrorist attacks in London during the last months apparently brought about a greater awareness to the need to prepare the public for such...

The U.S. is tightening its bonds with Costa Rica. The Department of State has donated six virtual shooting ranges to the Costa Rican Ministry...

First responders must stay up-to-date on the latest tactics and techniques for improvised explosive devices (IED) response. How does the Department of Homeland Security...

A new study on North Africa and the Sahel reports that terrorist attacks in the region “increased an alarming 60 percent” in 2013, to...

The Department of Homeland Security’ Office of Biometric Identity Management is currently looking for off-the-shelf applications that can more effectively store, match and analyze...