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  • Remote Guarding Alliance formed

    Guard services represent a $40 billion - $50 billion market worldwide; eight industry leaders join to form the Remote Guarding Alliance, aiming to establish accepted standards and promote remote guarding advantages to potential customers

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  • FBI investigates Unisys's responsibility for DHS security breaches

    Chinese cyber-attackers compromised DHS computers during the summer and fall of 2006; these computers were supposed to be secured by Unisys in 2002 $1 billion contract; FBI investigates breaches and alleged cover-up

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  • UC Berkeley to examine new methods of screening for nuclear materials

    The Academic Research Initiative, a new DHS-NSF project, give a UC Berekeley scientists $1.4 million to develop new methods for screening for nuclear materials

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  • Shut-down Japanese nuclear plant hit by fire

    In July Japan’s largest nuclear power plant was damaged, and radiation was leaked, as a result of 6.8 earthquake; yesterday, parts of the shut-down plant caught fire

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  • $600 million contract for encasing Chornobyl with new protective shelter

    Two decades after the worst nuclear accident in history, Ukraine signs a $600 million contract to encase the Chernobyl reactor’s remnants in a new protective steel tomb

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  • U.K. government issues telecom, mail security guidance

    From the most sophitcated wireless communication to the old-fashioned, humble mail: Organizations are vulnerable to disruption and mischief, and the U.K. government wants to help

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  • CommerceGuard Installs Container Security Network in Northern California

    State of the art container security system to help better protect cargo, homeland at Port of Oakland

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  • Network security to move toward "complete packet inspection"

    The new approach will embed security in a pervasive manner throughout the entire network to provide the situational awareness necessary to respond instantly to threats or problems and contain the damage before it spreads into the entire network

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  • Elephant trap for truck-bombs

    A truck bomb killed 241 soliders in Beirut in 1983, and they continue to reap their grim harvest in Iraq and Afghanistan; a designer suggests an elephant-trap design as proetction

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  • DHS searches for safer bridges

    DHS, Army Corps of Engineers look for ways to make bridges more terror-resistant; advances in steel and reinforced concrete to be explored

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  • New safety rule changes landscape for chemical industry -- and others

    DHS’s new Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards are broadly applicable to American industry

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  • Magal in $8 million contract to provide perimeter protection

    Magal’s Perimitrax buried cable intrusion detection system will be deployed around several public facilities in an unnamed country in west Asia

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  • Making disaster preparedness more effective

    Emergency and preparedness experts emphasize that a key to effective response is avoiding duplication of efforts among different agencies and levels of government

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  • Attacks on Mexico's oil, natural gas infrastructure increase

    Mexico has a 30,000-mile network of energy pipelines; the network is exceedingly vulnerable to attacks; a shadowy terrorist group takes advantage, injuring the country’s economy

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  • Growing worries, debates about likelihhod, effects of strategic cyber attack

    The spring cyber attacks on Estonia offer an illustration of what strategic cyber warfare may look like; experts debate capabilities, motives for such an attack

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More headlines

  • What Should the Government Do in 2023 to Fill its Cyber Workforce Shortage?
  • CISA’s Wales says industry engagement on incident reporting rule will be robust, meet expectations
  • Securing the U.S. Electricity Grid from Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity Profile for the Hybrid Satellite Networks (HSN) Cybersecurity: Draft Annotated Outline
  • $3 billion for coastal and climate resilience funding
  • DHS Awards $9.8M for Small Businesses to Develop Security Technology Prototypes
  • Flood sensors give Montgomery Co. new way to track water levels remotely
  • 100 day cybersecurity resilience plan for water and wastewater sector
  • Water, schools, among major concerns for Utah earthquake commission
  • MyShake early warning app ready for Seattle earthquake alerts
  • Nuclear reactor restarts, but Japan’s energy policy in flux
  • Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery
  • Kansas getting $500K in law enforcement grants
  • Bill widens Sacramento police, sheriff’s contract security opportunities
  • DHS awards $97 million in port security grants
  • DHS awarding $1.3 billion in 2012 preparedness grants
  • Cellphone firms share location data with law enforcement, not users
  • Residents of Murrieta, California, will have to subscribe for emergency services
  • Ohio’s Homeland Security funding drops sharply
  • Ports of L.A., Long Beach get Homeland Security grants
  • Homeland security gets involved with Indiana water conservation
  • LAPD embraces “predictive policing”
  • New GPS rival is hack-proof
  • German internal security service head quits over botched investigation
  • Americans favor Obama to defend against space aliens: poll
  • U.S. Coast Guard creates “protest-free zone” in Alaska oil drilling zone
  • Congress passes measure to enhance Israel security ties
  • Wickr enables encrypted, self-destructing iPhone messages
  • NASA explains Why clocks got an extra second on 30 June
  • Cybercrime disclosures rare despite new SEC rule
  • First nuclear reactor to go back online since Japan disaster met with protests
  • Israeli security fence architect: Why the barrier had to be built
  • DHS allocates nearly $10 million to Jewish nonprofits
  • Turkey deploys troops, tanks to Syrian border
  • Israel fears terror attacks on Syrian border
  • Ontario’s emergency response protocols under review after Elliot Lake disaster
  • Colorado wildfires to raise insurance rates in future years
  • Colorado fires threaten IT businesses
  • Improve your disaster recovery preparedness for hurricane season
  • London 2012 business continuity plans must include protecting information from new risks

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The long view

  • Concerns About Extremists Targeting U.S. Power Stations

    Attacks on four power stations in Washington State over the weekend added to concerns of a possible nationwide campaign by far-right extremists to stir fears and spark civil conflict. Violent extremists “have developed credible, specific plans to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020, identifying the electric grid as a particularly attractive target given its interdependency with other infrastructure sectors,” the DHS said in a January.

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