Counter Terror

Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram has declared its allegiance to Islamic State. In a video posted online, Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, in an...

With funding shrinking in many sectors of law enforcement, agencies are searching for new ways to operate affordably while maintaining quality standards. Police departments’...

This iHLS Special Edition video is about Espionage Satellites, which pick up electromagnetic signals that characterize electronic weapon systems, take images of army movements, of moving sea...

The White House is planning a summit in October to consider domestic extremism. The planned summit will include Muslim faith-based organizations, mental health providers,...

A memo written by the U.S. Airways Pilot Association described a possible "dry-run" for a future terrorist attack that occurred on Flight 1880 on...

iHLS Israel Homeland Security In this weekly report (28 October 2014): Ebola possibly weaponized Safe City projects US next generation bunker-buster bombs New Hovermast unveiled Euclid antenna pedestals

The secret hacking tactics of Canada’s intelligence agency Canada’s electronic surveillance agency has secretly developed an arsenal of cyber weapons capable of stealing data and...

The Islamic State group and other militant organizations have been creating precedents in terms of discussing cyber activities almost from the start. Most cyber...

AT&T announced it was introducing a pilot system to its Customer Service Relations (CSR) for recording customers' calls as well as analyzing content and...

Federal Judge Katherine Forrest last week ruled that the Iranian companies which own the 650 Fifth Avenue building in Manhattan must forfeit the property...

  Soldiers have been sent on to Britain’s streets to help the police following the Manchester terrorist attack which killed at least 22 people including...

US President Obama took his time to announce the war against ISIS, but better late than never. President Obama delivered a special broadcast to the...

Al Qaeda engineers have been working on designing a sophisticated bomb powerful enough to bring down passenger planes, designed to avoid detection. John Pistole, head...

Articles and issues featured in this episode: Protecting the Electric Grid Money Laundering and Terror American UAVs Soar Again Advanced Israeli UAV Unveiled Hackers Will Access the Biometric Database Bystanders...

Homeland Security officials are planning to create a military-like chain of command to police the Southwest U.S. border, in what could be the department's...

Homemade deadly viruses? Scientists are warning that decades of public research on the sequencing of virus DNA are now posing unforeseen threats, as synthesis technologies...

A succession of “performance, organizational, technical” and other failures by the Secret Service enabled an intruder to climb a fence and enter the White...

 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...

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...

A new use for a bomb-detecting technology: identifying the dangerous opioid fentanyl from a distance using a laser beam to protect soldiers and law...

Unmanned systems 2014 - The Nigerian government has asked the U.S. to provide it with drones, to aid in the search efforts for the...

Usually, people claiming their governments are spying on them are considered merely paranoids or conspiracy-lovers. But in the last several years, it has become...