DHS S&T Announces Winners of the $300K Biothreat Prize Competition

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) have announced the grand prize winner of its $300,000 Hidden Signals Challenge. The prize competition, issued in collaboration with the Office of...
Hacker-for-hire Karim Baratov, aka Kay, aka Karim Taloverov, aka Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov, 23, sentenced to 5 years for Yahoo security breach. (Courtesy of Instagram)

Hacker-For-Hire who Aided with Russians in Yahoo Breach Gets Jail

Karim Baratov, aka Kay, aka Karim Taloverov, aka Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov, 23, has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a fine, which encompasses all of his...

NY Man Sentenced to 16 Yrs in Child Sextortion Case (Learn More, Videos)

A man who solicited sexually explicit photos and videos from a minor and distributed them on the Internet was sentenced to 200 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised...

Enterprise Organizations Seek End-to-End Security Solutions

By Mohammed Murad, Vice President Global Sales and Business Development at LG Electronics USA, Iris ID Systems Any enterprise organization has to approach security on two fronts – physical and the logical. Until...
U.S.-CERT TA18-149A notes that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a joint “technical alert” urging network users and administrators to update patches and security software and to scan for suspicious email attachments, among other steps.

US-Cert Releases Alert re North Korean Malware HIDDEN COBRA

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued an alert on Tuesday that identifies two types of malware, Joanap & Brambul, as linked to the North Korean government. U.S.-CERT TA18-149A notes that...
A perimeter protected by a fence-mounted sensor. People and objects approaching the fence are tracked via a video analytic, enabling PTZ cameras to capture high resolution video of any intrusion attempt.

Senstar: Integrating Video Analytics & Perimeter Intrusion Detection to Deter

By Justin Schorn, Senstar VP of Product Management Adding a perimeter intrusion detection system (PIDS) to a site greatly increases its security and leverages the value of existing assets like security fences and...
The Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States is a Congressionally-mandated, bipartisan initiative to recommend a new approach for U.S. policy that targets the underlying causes of extremism and limits the ability of extremist groups to exploit fragile states.

USIP New Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States (Learn More, Videos)

The United States Institute of Peace convened the first meeting of a congressionally-mandated, bipartisan task force of leading defense, diplomacy and development experts to prevent terrorist threats from emerging in fragile states following the...

Disabled Vets Join Grand Canyon Wilderness Expedition (Multi-Video)

The 2018 No Barriers Warriors Grand Canyon Veteran Wilderness Expedition funded by Raytheon Company, is seeking disabled veterans in Alabama, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to consider applying. No Barriers USA, a nonprofit organization in Fort Collins, CO, organizes...
Howard County police are continuing the search for a man who was reported missing in Ellicott City during the flood Sunday. Eddison Alexander Hermond, 39, of Severn, was last seen in the area of La Palapa near Lot D on Main Street at approximately 5:20 p.m. searching for a missing cat. (Image courtesy of the Howard County Police Department)

‘Devastation’ Follows Ellicott City Flash Flooding, 1 Missing (Videos)

By John Bacon and Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Rescue personnel here were searching Monday for a man missing after rampaging waters roared like a river through the quaint, historic downtown, swallowing cars and flooding stores...
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MS-13 Member Wanted on Murder, Terror Charges Removed by ICE ERO

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed an MS-13 gang member from the United States Friday who is wanted in his home country on felony charges...