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Archive for January, 2010

Online Security Alert: Beware, It’s Tax Season

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Oklahomans about to file their state taxes should be cautious when they visit the the tax commission’s Web site: it’s riddled with malicious code and is dangerous, warns a prominent security researcher.

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Congressman Asks DHS Secretary: "Where Are Your Visa Screeners?"

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), ranking member on the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Management, Investigations and Oversight, has a pretty good question for Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano: "Where are all the visa screeners we gave you money for?"

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Congressman Asks DHS Secretary: "Where Are Your Visa Screeners?"

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), ranking member on the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Management, Investigations and Oversight, has a pretty good question for Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano: "Where are all the visa screeners we gave you money for?"

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Morning Security Brief: SOTU and National Security, Bratton Goes Private, "F" in Preparedness, Mumbai Suspect Pleads Not Guilty

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

♦ National security gets short shrift in President Obama’s first State of the Union speech, The New York Times reports.

♦ Retired LAPD Police Chief William Bratton launches his new global investigations company.

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Morning Security Brief: SOTU and National Security, Bratton Goes Private, "F" in Preparedness, Mumbai Suspect Pleads Not Guilty

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

♦ National security gets short shrift in President Obama’s first State of the Union speech, The New York Times reports.

♦ Retired LAPD Police Chief William Bratton launches his new global investigations company.

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Morning Security Briefing: India Beefs Up Security, Yemen Collapsing, Terrorism’s Toll in Pakistan, al Qaeda Still Wants WMDs

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

♦ As the memory of Mumbai endures, India bolsters security for its 60th Republic Day.

♦ The BBC weighs how Western governments should respond to the terrorist threat emanating from a fragile Yemen.

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UK Bans "Football Hooligans" from 2010 World Cup in South Africa

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

In an effort to help secure this summer’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the British government will prohibit more than 3,000 known troublemakers from traveling to the tournament, according to the Guardian.

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Core Al Qaeda Still Desires WMDs, Harvard Report Claims

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Al Qaeda’s core leadership refuses to give up its nuclear ambitions and still craves to ignite a rising mushroom cloud over an American city, a retired CIA officer argues in a report released by Harvard today.

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Al Qaeda in Yemen Has Trained Female Suicide Bombers, Intel Warns

Monday, January 25th, 2010

U.S. intelligence officials warn that the same al Qaeda group that attacked a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day has also trained female suicide bombers to attack Western targets, ABC News reports.

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Radicalized Americans in Yemen and Somalia May Pose Threat to United States

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Approximately 72 American citizens, some ex-convicts, have disappeared into the ungoverned spaces of Somalia and Yemen and may pose a jihadist threat to the United States, according to a report released yesterday by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

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