DHS forgets to mention border WiFi spy tower bungle
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Eye of Sauron poked after dodgy debrief Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have been lambasted by Congressmen after apparently attempting to conceal technical problems and programme slippages.â¦
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DHS wants to build a portable lab to set up at events and transit hubs to test ways to detect terrorists using remote sensors and pyschological techniques.  Will your thoughts be clean enough to board the train? In 27B Stroke 6.
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The failure to appoint an assistant secretary for cybersecurity and incomplete planning are raising questions about how well prepared the Department of Homeland Security is for a cyberattack directed against the nation's critical infrastructure.
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The Department of Homeland Security is testing a data-mining program that would attempt to spot terrorists by combing vast amounts of information about average Americans, such as flight and hotel reservations. Similar to a Pentagon program killed by Congress in 2003 over concerns about civil liberties, the new program could take effect as soon as next year....
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The Department of Homeland Security has given up on one of its broadest anti-terrorism data-mining tools after investigators found it was tested with information about real people without the required privacy safeguards.
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Chertoff to Boeing: 'You don't own this border' The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has accepted into service its first section of SBInet virtual border fence, but it clearly isn't very happy with the state of the new technology.â¦
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Cell phone owners currently enjoy a kind of privacy through obscurity: Wireless numbers aren&#39;t listed with directory assistance.
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We advise skepticism The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ditching a controversial data-mining program, the Associated Press revealed today.â¦
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Authorities have disrupted planning by foreign terrorists for an attack on New York City tunnels, two law enforcement officials said Friday.
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Most court cases brought by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security involved immigration issues not claims of terrorism, according to a report issued Sunday by an independent research group. But a DHS spokesman dismissed the study, saying  that, by clamping down on all forms of immigration, the agency has made it difficult for terrorists to come to the United States.
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The DDOS attacks against Estonia didn't appear to be a coordinated attack by one entity within Russia
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(InfoWorld) - Fixing cybersecurity problems in the U.S. is a top priority at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said the agency's leader, but lawmakers didn't focus on the issue during a hearing in Congress Wednesday. Cybersecurity is a "very big issue" that DHS remains concerned about, said DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, testifying before the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee. Chertoff didn't go into details because much of the department's cybersecurity efforts are classified, he said. "I can assure you that we are working with other elements of the federal government and giving highest priority an enhanced strategy with respect to cybersecurity," he said. Cybersecurity threats have "enormous potential to do damage to the United States in years to come," Chertoff added. Chertoff testified before the committee in a hearing titled, "Holding the Department of Homeland Security Accountable for Security Gaps." But while cybersecurity problems continue inside and outside of the U.S. government, lawmakers focused on other issues during the hearing, including the hiring of border agents, training of bomb-sniffer dogs, and the scanning of airline cargo. Just this week, the U.S. Department of Defense acknowledged a successful attack on an unclassified e-mail system earlier this year. While not focusing on cybersecurity, committee chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, said DHS needs to improve in several areas. Thompson has criticized the department's cybersecurity efforts in the past, but cybersecurity issues were not on Thompson's list of top priorities for Chertoff in the remaining 16 months of U.S. President George Bush's administration. Instead, Thompson called on Chertoff to fill vacancies at DHS, to finish regulations for container security at ports, and to implement a biometric air passenger screening program. "We owe the American people security," Thompson said. "We owe them accountability. And most importantly, we owe them freedom from fear." Other than the short Chertoff statement on cybersecurity, the issue did not come up again in more than 90 minutes of questions from lawmakers. Representative Mike Rogers, an Alabama Republican, used part of his question time to complain to Chertoff that many bomb-sniffing dogs used by DHS came from overseas. Rogers urged Chertoff to find ways to breed bomb-sniffing and cadaver dogs in the U.S. "I'm concerned that we are increasingly relying on foreign imported dogs," he said.
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Inspectors find weak passwords, buffer overflows and mystery modems at the Department of Homeland Security.
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House committee demands answers from the agency after investigators turn up dozens of intrusions last year with ties to Chinese Web servers. An IT contractor says it wasn't at fault.
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They can run, and they can hide US network operators who can't locate their customers in the case of an emergency are facing fines of over $2m, having already been given 18-months grace to comply.â¦
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The case of a suspected agent raises questions about security at the U.S.-Canada border and what the alleged agent was after in the first place
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A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a surveillance provision of the USA Patriot Act which requires Internet providers to supply personal information about customers to the federal government, and bars them from disclosing that they received a special