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On Oct. 31, Metrojet Flight 9268 catastrophically broke apart over the Sinai Peninsula after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh about 20 minutes earlier and...

Facebook has released its biannual report on government data requests, indicating that total law enforcement requests are at their highest level ever at 41,214...

Think Big Data is some indecipherable discipline completely divorced from your everyday concerns? Or maybe you know that it does some good, but you’re...

The US Department of Homeland Security has found a new geospatial solution to enhance first responders’ incident management capabilities. The Department’s Science and Technology...

The Marine Corps is in the early phases of developing a large Group 5 unmanned aerial system (UAS) that would operate from a ship...

A new French law would impose penalties and fines on smartphone manufacturers who refuse to hand over encrypted information to law enforcement in terrorism...

An Israeli company has developed what it claims is the ultimate deception sensor. The system is already in use by many organizations in Israel...

The Optical Society (OPA) reports that scientists from The Langevin Institute, Paris, France, have constructed a new fingerprint imaging system that peers inside the...

FAA unveils 2 drone programs to gauge UAV use The U.S Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is testing the skies with more drones. It has allowed...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) announced that its Predator-series, including the MQ-1 Predator, MQ-9 Reaper, and MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAV’s, has achieved a...

Advanced marine electronics systems will be supplied to the US Coast Guard for enhancing situational awareness and navigation capabilities. FLIR Systems has been awarded...

The U.S. government is warning Lenovo users they must remove an adware (advertising-supported software) called ’Superfish’ from their digital platforms. The Department of Homeland Security...

Toronto Police confirmed the existence of a mysterious underground chamber near York University Monday, after a CBC report raised the specter of an attack...

Experts: ISIS's social media terrorist messaging far ahead of US government efforts to counter it. The U.S. government is a doing a feeble job of...

A Methuen Mass school will soon deploy an automated system to detect and track a gunman on campus. Methuen Mayor Stephen Zanni and other city...

A non-disclosure agreement that police departments around the country have been signing for years with the maker of a cell-phone spy tool explicitly prohibits...

An American federal air marshal was placed in quarantine in Houston, Texas yesterday after being attacked Sunday night at the Lagos airport in Nigeria....

  A new shield offers multi-hit protection from armor-piercing rifle bullets and is easily carried by a single armed shield operator. The shield is constructed...

Several shark-spotting surveillance drones will be used to improve beach patrols’ precision in Western Australia's South West. Fisheries minister, Joe Francis, claimed the $88,000...

Avi Yariv Different cities around the world face different security challenges. Those challenges are a outcome of many parameters: economy, poverty, the Culture, the attitude...

New evidence from the largest-yet series of experiments on use of body-worn cameras by police has revealed that rates of assault against police by...

Before 1970, the widely accepted solution for disposal of old munitions, typically called unexploded ordnance (UXO), was to dump them into rivers, lakes and...