Griffith - The Federal Emergency Management Agency is putting new safeguards in place to protect sensitive information stored on laptop computers after one containing personal information for about 50 Indiana flood victims was stolen from an inspector's car.
A Pennsylvania company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Obama's helicopter, Marine One, WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh reported.
Sensitive information about Marine One was reportedly found by Tiversa employees at an IP address in Tehran.
That scenario could change under legislation passed by the House Tuesday to reduce overclassification of threat information.
"Classifying information for the wrong reasons—to protect turf or to avoid embarrassment—is wrong," said Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., sponsor of the bill that passed on a voice vote. She said that in her eight years on the House Intelligence Committee, "I become incredibly frustrated with this practice—which the Bush administration elevated to an art form."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Tuesday approved creation of an office in the Justice Department to help university security forces train for and prevent violent incidents such as those that hit Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University in recent years.
The National Center for Campus Public Safety would issue grants to campus safety agencies, encourage research into improved college safety and conduct training.
LISBON - An armed intruder who entered the Columbiana County Courthouse to test the security system told fellow drill participants he had no place to go, thanks to the lockdown procedures.
"The drill served its purpose," Commissioner Penny Traina said Friday, although she admitted there were some minor issues to correct. "We would not have known what they were without the drill."
By contrast, 96% of airlines are complying with security requirements, according to a new report by the department. The report doesn't identify which rail and bus systems fell short.
The assessment comes as new Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says she plans to focus more on mass transit, possibly through "redeployment" of resources from other areas.
"We've done an awful lot in the aviation world," Napolitano said Monday. "We could pay more attention" to surface transportation security.
Some 25,000 police, military troops and law enforcement agents — including plainclothes officers roaming the crowds — will be on hand to handle the potentially 2 million people who could descend on the nation's capital Tuesday.
The Department of Homeland Security is looking to up its annual research around router communications security fourfold – from around $600,000 to about $2.5 million – in an attempt to stave off router hijackers and misconfiguration.
The effort, code-named BGPSEC, is focused on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which is considered by some experts as among the Internet’s weakest features, and adding digital signatures to routers, according to reports.
A Network World piece quotes Douglas Maughan, program manager for cybersecurity R&D in the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, as saying: "BGPSEC is going to take a couple of years to go through the process of development and prototypes and standardization. We're really talking ... four years out, if not longer, before we see deployment."
WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence analysts reviewing secret data and electronic intercepts have found no credible evidence of plans to disrupt the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said.
"Everybody has been very focused on this for months," he said in an interview Thursday.
The effective date of one section in a final rule that addresses railroad hazardous materials security, including operations at certain fixed-sites, has been extended to April 1, 2009, according to information published in the Federal Register December 19.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it was extending the rule so that affected parties would have more time to conduct training and implement procedures to come into compliance with the chain of custody and control requirements of the rule.
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