Security guards are dangerously unqualified
Despite playing a more important role in the wake of 9/11, the security guard industry remains plagued by inadequate training and standards in many...
Breakthrough in Fingerprints Use
The new technique needs to be extensively tested on real crimes scenes, before it can be used in prosecutions.
Dutch forensic experts claimed to have...
Dangerous and False Palestinian “Unity”
By Prof. Efraim Inbar
As long as the military branch of Hamas remains independent, there is no Palestinian unity. Under the current accord, instead of...
Yemeni Immigrant Planned to Kill U.S. Soldiers
Lone wolf or part of an organization?
A New York business owner from Yemen plotted vengeance attacks against members of the U.S. military for American...
New: Gestures may Replace Passwords for Mobiles
As more people use smart phones or tablets to pay bills, make purchases, store personal information, and even control access to their houses, the...
Egozi’s Fury
Some would say the UN can sink no lower, but apparently it's trying, hard. Ban Ki-moon, the useless organization's Secretary General, slammed Israel over...
India, Israel Strengthen HLS Cooperation
India and Israel will increase the cooperation on homeland security issues. Confronted with "challenging neighborhoods," India and Israel are intensifying cooperation on Homeland Security...
Rise of the Turkish Drones
Turkey plans to become a world leading UAS manufacturer.
In an April 29 speech, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “We have reached that...
iHLS TV – Amnon Sofrin, on Offshore Security
Interview with Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Amnon Sofrin, HLS Projects Manager at Elta (IAI), on Israel's offshore security challenges.
Network Security: DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge
This problem is getting more serious - the inadequacy of current network security systems, which require expert programmers to identify and repair system weaknesses...
DHS Revises Use of Deadly Force Along Borders
On 30 May DHS released new guidelines detailing when the use of force by Border Patrol officials is authorized. The lack of explicit scenarios...
The Homeland Security Market 2013-2023
The homeland security market is expected to record sustained growth throughout the forecast period 2013-2023. This according to a new Visiongain report.
The range and...
Changing the Rules of the C2 Application Business Market
By Avi Yariv
Command and Control systems are the brain and heart of most of the modern complex systems worldwide. The ability to Monitor (watch),...
Swiss Army Selects Israeli Drone
Unmanned systems 2014 - Elbit systems will supply the new generation of UAS to the Swiss armed forces that have so far operated UAS...
Fast Draw – Crowds Assault Border Police
The images published this morning on several websites are shameful and frustrating. Two police officers serving with the Israeli border police are shown arresting...
Passenger Hit Crew Member, El-Al Flight Diverted
An El-Al 737 flight en route to Munich from Ben-Gurion Airport was forced to make an emergency landing in Sofia, Bulgaria on Thursday morning...
The First Airplane: 110 Years Anniversary
The Wright Brothers: Bicycle repairmen from Dayton, Ohio, who built a flying “machine” and sent it soaring along with its “operator”. The first airplane...
Executive Cyber Intelligence Bi-Weekly Report by INSS-CSFI
June 1, 2014
ISRAEL
Physical cyber infrastructure failure
While the Israeli government heavily invests in cyber security, the physical side of Israel cyber systems have been neglected....
NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
The U.S National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for...
U.S. DoD Concerned Over Climate Change
Department of Defense (DoD) officials consider climate change a key factor in protecting national security around the globe, according to deputy assistant secretary of...
Al-Qaeda’s Terrorist Classes: An ICT Review
Al-Qaeda's official jihadist media institution, Al-Fajr, which is responsible for the distribution of official publications written by Al-Qaeda affiliates around the world, launched a...
The New Robotic Truck
Unmanned systems 2014 - Oshkosh the truck company is going robotic with its TerraMax Unmanned Ground Vehicle.
The company has made a major step towards...
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The Importance of AI Implementations for Data Fusion and Uncertainty Management...
Written by Or Shalom
Effective defense against threats such small, low-speed unmanned aerial systems (LSS - Low, Slow, Small), requires a multidimensional approach. Modern detection...
