What US Airlines with 737 MAX 8 Are Doing to Keep Passengers Safe

March 11, 2019 – In Breaking News – CNN Two US airlines fly the 737 MAX 8 -- the type of jet that crashed last year in Indonesia killing 189 people and...
A USB drive with hardware-based encryption is an excellent, non-complicated and simple solution to protect data from breaches, while also providing compliance with evolving governmental regulations.

Encryption Is Key in the World of BYOD USB Flash Drives

Guest Editorial by Richard Kanadjian, Encrypted USB Business Manager at Kingston Technology Today, government entities are filling their workplace environments with all sorts of interesting, novel perks in an attempt to keep staff...
DARPA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to augment its understanding of state-of-the-art technologies for 3D mapping and surveying. (Courtesy of Darpa)

DARPA Seeks Innovative Tools to Capture Underground Worlds in 3D

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is seeking information on state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies for advanced mapping and surveying in support of the agency’s 2018 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Award Winning Subterranean (SubT)...
Raven's Challenge is a series of interoperability exercises that are designed to give Military Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians and Public Safety Bomb technicians the opportunity to merge their resources and perform Counter-IED operations together in a realistic environment.

EOD Save the Date: ATF 2019 Raven’s Challenge Interoperability Exercise

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) National Center for Explosives Training and Research (NCETR), in collaboration with the U.S. Army Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA) G-38 –...
This is the Jet Ski used during the smuggling attempt, alongside a Border Patrol SAFE Boat. (Courtesy of CBP)

Failed Smuggling Attempt Evolves into Border Patrol Rescue

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to Buffalo Station observed three subjects, on what appeared to be a stranded jet ski, stuck in the ice near the southern portion of Beaver Island State...
The boss of the Gambino crime family was gunned down in front of his Staten Island home Wednesday night. Frank Cali, 53, was the nephew-in-law of John Gambino and the great-nephew of Bonanno mobsters Vito Bonventre and Giovanni Bonventre. (Courtesy of YouTube)

Gambino Crime Boss Frank Cali Shot Dead Outside Staten Island Home

March 13, 2019 - In Breaking News – Heavy Frank Cali, the reputed boss of the Gambino mafia crime family, has been shot and killed on Staten Island on the evening of March...
Brissett, 30, of the Bronx, New York, is charged with one count of using a firearm to commit murder during a crime of violence and a drug-trafficking crime, which carries a maximum penalty of death or life imprisonment, and one count of using arson to obstruct justice, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. (Courtesy of ICE)

Bronx Man Charged with Murder in Decade-Old Cold Case

A federal indictment was unsealed Wednesday charging Jamal Brissett, aka “Trigger” with murdering Leshaun Gordon, 19, in the Bronx, New York, on June 30, 2009, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration...
The CAIRA from Haines Security Solutions is designed to identify and quantify vulnerabilities and risks associated with applicable Critical Infrastructure (CI) systems being subjected to various natural and manmade threats. This information empowers decision makers in making informed decisions, setting priorities, and developing future plans, projects, and programs needed to remediate, mitigate, or accepting the risk, and identifies cost-effective solutions to mitigate risk and assists in the development of projects to correct noted deficiencies.

HEY BOSS, IT’S TIME FOR YOUR ‘SECURITY’ COLONSCOPY

Quantifying Asset Values, Threats, Vulnerabilities and Risks Guest Editorial by Doug Haines Every year or so, I get a medical check-up and every year the doc says, “Why don’t we schedule that colonoscopy...
Vigilant Solutions Face Search for Law Enforcement, was recognized in the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program with the Gold Award Win for Best Image Technologies Solution. Facial recognition software quickly compares one face with a lot of other faces to see if there is a potential match. That’s it. Cops do the same thing every day in a manual way, by knocking on doors with a photo, or having crime victims look through hundreds of mugshot photos; facial recognition just automates the process.

US Senators Introduce Commercial Face Recognition Bill

U.S. Senators Roy Blunt of Missouri, and Brian Schatz of Hawaii, both members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, have formally introduced the Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act...
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ASC Sounds Alarm of Relying Exclusively on Mobile Device Alerts

American Signal Corporation (ASC), a Milwaukee-based company that develops a variety of sirens and emergency alert systems, and Two-Time Winner in the 2018 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Program, is sounding the alarm...