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OCT 25
Skype Security Flaw Potential Terrorist Threat, NYU Professor Says
Fox News reports a flagrant security flaw in the massively popular Skype video chat service may be putting Internet users worldwide at risk.The serious security breach in the Internet video chat program, which boasts over 500 million users around the globe, means that any evil computer nerd could easily hunt down users’ whereabouts, according to [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security
OCT 24
US teen charged in ‘Jihad Jane’ terror plot
A high school honors student helped the American terror suspect dubbed “Jihad Jane” plot to kill a Swedish artist and used the Internet to raise money and recruits for overseas terrorists, federal prosecutors charged in an indictment Thursday. Mohammad Hassan Khalid, a legal immigrant from Pakistan, had been the rare juvenile in federal custody until [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Secur
TSA agents discover land mine packed inside bag
It was a unique discovery to say the least. Transportation Security Administration baggage checkers last week discovered four land mines tucked inside of a passenger’s checked bag at Salt Lake City International Airport. Airport officials said someone doing militar Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror [...]This story comes to us via Homela
OCT 23
U.S. Warns Imminent Terrorist Attack On Kenya Is Possible
The U.S. Embassy is warning that an imminent terrorist attack in Kenya is possible.The warning said likely targets include places that foreigners congregate, including shopping malls and night clubs. The embassy issued the warning from what it called credible information. The U.S. did not specify who might carry out such an attack, but the warning [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security
OCT 22
Car bomb explodes during military pursuit in Monterrey Mexico
More violence in Mexico’s war on drug cartels: A car exploded in Monterrey, Mexico in an area that’s seen a spike in violence. No one was injured, but the explosion caused extensive property damage.Investigators say a military convoy was chasing a suspicious vehicle and a small car exploded as the convoy passed. Police in Monterrey [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terr
OCT 20
Muammar Qaddafi Dead
Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi is dead, Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril has confirmed.”We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Muammar Qaddafi has been killed,” Jibril told a news conference in the capital Tripoli. Qaddafi died of wounds suffered during his capture near his hometown of Sirte on Thursday, Reuters and Sky News [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - Nation
OCT 19
5 Foreign Nationals In Custody After Attempted Break-In at Texas Courthouse
DEVELOPING Fox News: FBI questions 5 foreign nationals who were found with travel papers, photos of buildings The FBI and local police said Wednesday they were trying to figure out why five French-Moroccan nationals tried to break into a Texas courthouse in the middle of the night. At least five foreign nationals are in custody [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror A
OCT 18
Stuxnet Clone Found Possibly Preparing Power Plant Attacks
Security researchers have detected a new Trojan, scarily similar to the infamous Stuxnet worm, which could disrupt computers controlling power plants, oil refineries and other critical infrastructure networks. The Trojan, dubbed “Duqu” by the security firm Symantec, appears, based on its code, to have been written by the same authors as the Stuxnet worm, which [...]This story comes to us via Homel
Drill checks anti-terror preparedness
Emergency Haj forces Monday carried out a drill where they surrounded “terrorists” inside the Grand Mosque and forced them to surrender without any pilgrims getting hurt. Commander of the special emergency forces Maj. Gen. Ali Al-Ghamdi, director of Makkah Police Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Al-Hamza and commander of the Haj security forces Brig. Khaled Qirar attended [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
DHS – Anonymous Interested in Hacking Nation’s Infrastructure
The hacker collective known as Anonymous has expressed interest in hacking industrial systems that control critical infrastructures, such as gas and oil pipelines, chemical plants and water and sewage treatment facilities, according to a Department of Homeland Security bulletin. But DHS doubts the anarchic group has the necessary skills. At least for now. Anonymous efforts [...]This story comes to
TSA Expanding Chat-Downs Experiment to Detroit Today
U.S. Transportation Security Administration workers today will begin interviewing passengers entering Delta Air Lines Inc.’s terminal in Detroit in an expansion of its so-called behavior detection program, Greg Soule, a TSA spokesman, said. Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport joins Boston’s Logan International as a test site for the program, in which TSA employees briefly talk [...]This stor
OCT 17
Yemen – U.S. strike kills al Qaeda media chief
American drone strikes in southern Yemen have killed nine al Qaeda-linked militants, including the media chief for the group’s Yemeni branch and the son of a prominent U.S.-born cleric slain in a similar attack last month, government officials and tribal elders said Saturday. In the capital, meanwhile, forces loyal to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh [...]This story comes to us via Homeland
OCT 11
Feds Crack Iranian Terror Plot To Hit U.S. Targets
Authorities foiled a plot that was directed by factions of the Iranian government to bomb the Israeli and Saudi Arabian embassies in Washington and a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday at a press conference. A criminal complaint was unsealed in federal court in New [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Te
OCT 10
Homeland Security moves forward with pre-crime detection
An internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public voluntarily, CNET has learned. If this sounds a bit like the Tom Cruise movie called “Minority Report,” or the CBS drama “Person [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National T
Hard Questions About Terror
City officials finally showed some backbone regarding the NYPD.For first time since 9/11, some elected officials had the courage to grill Police Commissioner Ray Kelly about his secretive anti-terrorism policies after documents surfaced, showing widespread and possibly illegal spying by the NYPD’s Intelligence Division on the city’s Muslims. Surprise, surprise, those officials did not include [...
OCT 08
Polish police arrest 2 in IKEA bombings in Europe
Two Polish men have been arrested and charged with a string of bomb attacks at IKEA stores across Europe and trying to extort millions from the Swedish furniture giant, authorities said Saturday. The arrests shed light on a mysterious spate of bombings that had prompted the evacuation of spooked shoppers and forced the retailer known [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Te
TSA Launches Program For Fast-Track Airport Screenings
Some frequent fliers can now move through airport security without having to take off their shoes or remove their computers, liquids and gels from carryon bags. It’s part of a pilot program that the Transportation Security Administration launched today at airports in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit and Miami. The initial trial is being rolled out to [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - Na
Intelligence Will Have to Use ‘Lone Wolf’ Provision
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told Congress on Thursday that two controversial provisions in the 2001 anti-terrorism law known as the Patriot Act will be especially important for adapting to the threat of domestic radicalization and the challenges of a wireless communications world. Both Mueller and Matthew G. Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism [...]This story comes to us via Ho
Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Secu
Could an electromagnetic pulse send us back to the Dark Ages?
Could an electromagnetic pulse send us back to the Dark Ages? The electromagnetic pulse. It’s the big, bad boogeyman of the electronic age where we depend on a constant stream of communication and connection. Everything stops – instantly. EMPs are often used in pop culture (particularly any time Magneto wants to take over the planet) [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Te
FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service
The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov. The federal government is embarking on a multiyear, $1 billion dollar overhaul of the FBI’s existing fingerprint database to more quickly and accurately identify suspects, partly [...]This story comes to us
OCT 05
Terror Scare on Delta Flight 235 from Amsterdam to Detroit
On the day the “Underwear Bomber” trial began it’s jury selection process, police say an unruly passenger on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit went on a verbal rampage and claimed he was a terrorist. Play the video to view a full report by Fox 2′s Taryn Asher at Metro Airport.Three hours into flight 235 [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Al
OCT 03
Biden Brother Hospitalized for Exposure to Suspicious Powder
The younger brother of Vice President Joe Biden was hospitalized Saturday after opening a package that contained a suspicious white powder at his Boynton Beach, Fla., home. Frank Biden, 57, told the The Palm Beach Post that upon opening a manila envelope, which was addressed to him and postmarked from India, his skin came into [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Al
Terror suspect accused of trying to hit FBI agent
A federal judge in Michigan has ordered a man suspected of supporting terrorist groups held on allegations he tried to crash into the car of an FBI agent who was following him as part of heightened security for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Reed S. Berry, 26, of St. Joseph was under [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is
Coloradan Zazi’s coded e-mail started agencies plan to stop N.Y. subway attack
Jim Davis was in his backyard drinking a beer and grilling burgers for a Labor Day barbecue when his cellphone rang. On the line was Steve Olson, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Denver office national security branch. Olson told his boss that authorities monitoring the e-mail of a key al-Qaeda operative [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert.
Judge Frees Five Algerians Suspected Of Financing Al Qaeda
Five Algerians suspected of financing Al Qaeda’s North African branch have been freed by a judge who said there was no significant evidence against them.The judge ordered the men to stay in Spain, report to judicial authorities twice a month and declare any change of address. The men are being investigated on suspicion of providing [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terr
OCT 02
Homeland Security Warns That Hackers May Be Motivated By Wall Street Protests
The “Occupy Wall Street” protests have been a way to fuel people’s anger at Wall Street, and the Department of Homeland Security is concerned such high-profile events may inspire hackers to once again target big financial institutions. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - Nation
New Fast and Furious docs released by White House
Late Friday, the White House turned over new documents in the Congressional investigation into the ATF “Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal.The documents show extensive communications between then-ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office Bill Newell – who led Fast and Furious – and then-White House National Security Staffer Kevin O’Reilly. Emails indicate the [...]This story comes to us
OCT 01
Worldwide Travel Alert Issued After Killing Of American Terrorist
The State Department on Saturday put U.S. citizens across the globe on alert for potential retaliation after the killings of U.S. born-cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and another American Al Qaeda propagandist in a U.S. airstrike Friday. “The death of Awlaki, in the near term, could provide motivation for anti-American attacks worldwide from individuals or groups seeking [...]This story comes to us via Hom
FBI agent’s ‘mental poker game’ against al Qaeda
The FBI interrogator who bluffed al Qaeda detainees into giving up significant intelligence began his career in an unusual way. Ali Soufan’s fraternity brothers bet him that the agency would never hire a guy like him. A Lebanese-born American studying international relations at a Pennsylvania college, Soufan had just returned to his frat house after [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Securi
Samir Khan – killed with Awlaki – was skilled propagandist
Before he was the Yemen-based editor of the English-language online magazine for Al Qaeda’s branch in the Arabian peninsula, Samir Khan was a radical young Muslim blogger in North Carolina.Khan, 25, a skilled propagandist, wrote virulently pro-Al Qaeda blog posts while a student at a community college in Charlotte. As a teenager, he posted blogs [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security -
SEP 30
Al Qaeda’s Anwar al-Awlaki killed in Yemen
The same U.S. military counterterrorism unit that got Osama bin Laden used a drone and jet strike in Yemen on Friday to kill the U.S.-born cleric suspected of inspiring or helping plan numerous attacks on the United States, including the Christmas 2009 attempt to blow up a jetliner, U.S. and Yemeni officials said. Anwar al-Awlaki, [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terro
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