The Internet of Things continues to grow, offering new possibilities for organizations to communicate messages and automate processes. This can be especially helpful when dealing with safety issues.
- By Pat Scheckel
- Sep 01, 2019
The world is quickly urbanizing, and people are flocking from suburbs and rural areas to cities more than ever before.
The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to launch an education program on the potential of ransomware attacks targeting voter databases, some of which were compromised by Russian hackers in 2016.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 30, 2019
Law enforcement agencies who have partnered with Amazon-owned Ring can request videos from residents and interact with users on its app, Neighbors.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 30, 2019
Ismail Ajjawi, a Palestinian 17-year-old from Lebanon, said he was denied entry to the United States because a border agent found ‘people posting political points of view that oppose the U.S.’ on his social media feeds.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 29, 2019
With local alerts, Facebook pages can send notifications to residents about threats, including weather warnings and active shooter situations, and boost the posts in users’ news feeds.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 29, 2019
A ProPublica investigation found that the decision by insurers to pay hackers instead of encouraging victims to recover files by themselves is helping fuel a surge in ransomware.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 28, 2019
The leader of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, which works within DHS, is concerned primarily with risk management, Chinese threats to supply chains and election security.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 27, 2019
The announcement came as Toronto experiences a wave of gun violence, some of which has been blamed on gang turf wars.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 27, 2019
Two Nigerian citizens are accused of leading a massive fraud scheme that transferred at least $6 million in fraudulently-obtained funds, much of whom was taken from elderly people.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 26, 2019
In Jackson, Mississippi, the acting DHS secretary met with religious leaders and lawmakers to discuss ways that the department is acting to protect faith institutions targeted for violence.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 23, 2019
The Trump administration has granted a 90-day extension for American firms to find alternatives to the Chinese telecommunications corporation.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 21, 2019
Authorities in Ohio, Connecticut and Florida arrested three men who expressed interest in mass shootings, including one who targeted a Jewish community center.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 21, 2019
The state suspects that the attack, which took place Friday morning and targeted small local governments, was coordinated by “one single threat actor.”
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 20, 2019
After six officers suffered non-life threatening injuries, the city’s mayor is calling for tougher gun control policies to help law enforcement keep firearms out of the wrong hands.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 16, 2019
The department has used video footage from the 3,200-camera system in over 140 cases in the past year, calling the program “game changing.”
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 14, 2019
The proposed measure would require hospitals and other employers to implement workplace violence prevention programs.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 13, 2019
By April, the county police department will outfit nearly 700 officers with cameras. But the city’s department of 1,300 does not have a parallel program in the works.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 12, 2019
A Homeland Security agency and the FBI’s El Paso office are cautioning Americans to watch out for malicious "charity" emails and phone call scams.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 07, 2019
Communities are calling for legislative action, particularly after it was revealed that one shooting was motivated by white supremacist ideology.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 06, 2019
Experts believe Cisco’s payout to a whistleblower could set a precedent for future lawsuits against vendors who sell products with security vulnerabilities.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 06, 2019
The Gilroy, California police chief credited his department’s robust security operation with stopping the shooter in his tracks.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 30, 2019
The report comes as Senate Republicans move to block election security legislation, arguing that election officials have already fixed the security issues they experienced in 2016.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 29, 2019
The legislation, which would ban facial recognition entry systems, would be the first to address what technology landlords can impose on residents.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 26, 2019
California law enforcement is praising the use of drones and high-definition video surveillance to track suspects and strategize police responses.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 25, 2019
Security experts and lawmakers say that creating a “backdoor” to unlock devices and messages would make those products vulnerable to hackers.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 24, 2019
The city was never able to get the software, Rekognition, to consistently work with its video surveillance cameras over the course of 15 months.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 24, 2019
Following a rise in expressway violence, law enforcement will add about 35 cameras to look into shootings that are notoriously difficult to solve.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 23, 2019
Since a May breach, the city has added security personnel at several buildings and plans to increase employee awareness of how to report suspicious activity.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 22, 2019
The proposal includes a controversial measure that would exempt police footage from being accessed and released through public records laws.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 19, 2019
Lawmakers are concerned about the use of out-of-date software on voting systems across the United States, but no new legislation has been passed in both chambers.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 18, 2019
A state audit found that the personal information of over 1 million students and more than 200,000 teachers was at risk of identity theft.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 18, 2019
Both measures, which aim to improve the Small Business Administration and resources for business owners, were adopted with bipartisan support.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 17, 2019
While the penalty will have little effect on Facebook’s bottom line, the massive fine could be indicative of the commission’s willingness to punish companies for data security issues.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 16, 2019
The $10 billion JEDI project has been rife with controversy, but the Pentagon still hopes to seal the deal with one of the companies next month.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 15, 2019
A California-based company has been given the OK to offer its services to campaigns for a discounted rate — as long as that rate is the same for other clients.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 15, 2019
The agency said it screened over 11.9 million passengers and crew as well as over 8 million checked bags during the holiday travel period.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 12, 2019
The legislation would require the Department of Homeland Security to develop educational resources for business owners and train counselors on higher-level cybersecurity information.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 12, 2019
The airline, along with Mariott International, is facing harsher penalties for not properly protecting customers’ personal data prior to cyberattacks.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 10, 2019
If the Securing Energy Infrastructure Act is signed into law, it will create a working group tasked with isolating the energy grid from attacks using “manual procedures.”
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 09, 2019
In states where undocumented immigrants can obtain driver’s licenses, ICE has asked agencies to search for matches in their databases. Two have complied.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 09, 2019
Eight agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and Education Department, are using outdated systems that have few security updates and have failed to protect Americans’ personal data.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 05, 2019
The attack, which was discovered Monday, comes shortly after two Florida cities agreed to pay ransoms in order to recover their computer systems from hackers.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 03, 2019
The high-tech country’s decision to move highly sensitive databases to another country could be a model for other nations hoping to maintain their data security.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 03, 2019
The House of Representatives passed an election security bill 225-184 on Thursday of last week. The Securing America’s Federal Elections (SAFE) Act is designed to prohibit cyberinterference.
- By Kaitlyn DeHaven
- Jul 01, 2019
Hackers have found a sweet spot in encrypting and attacking municipal computer systems. Lake City is the latest to suffer from these attacks, and after two weeks of inaccessible services, have agreed to pay the $460,000 ransom to hackers.
- By Kaitlyn DeHaven
- Jun 27, 2019
Restaurants and stores that sell liquor are suffering from theft in Shreveport, Louisiana. In response, a city councilman is now pushing an amendment that requires restaurants and stores that sell liquor to obtain state-of-the-art surveillance systems before they acquire a liquor license.
- By Kaitlyn DeHaven
- Jun 27, 2019
The IoT Cybersecurity bill, which was introduced in March, passed through the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs last week and is now headed to the full Senate for a vote.
- By Kaitlyn DeHaven
- Jun 25, 2019
Police use new autonomous data machine with 360-degree HD video as an extra set of eyes for areas where police are not consistently present.
- By Kaitlyn DeHaven
- Jun 21, 2019
After three weeks of city data being encrypted in Riviera Beach, Florida, city officials have unanimously voted to pay the hefty ransom to regain access.
- By Kaitlyn DeHaven
- Jun 21, 2019
In March, the department announced that 350,000 clients had been affected by a data breach in January 2019. On Tuesday, they updated the number and announced that 645,000 clients had been affected.
- By Kaitlyn DeHaven
- Jun 20, 2019
According to the police, the suspect, a 22-year-old male has died after exchanging gunfire with federal officers. The suspect opened fire outside the Earle Cabell Federal Courthouse in Downtown Dallas.
- By Kaitlyn DeHaven
- Jun 18, 2019
In lieu of eight straight years of passenger growth, the Eugene Airport will be gaining a fourth explosive detection system (EDS) to increase airport security and efficiency.
- By Kaitlyn DeHaven
- Jun 12, 2019
A group of 14 Stanford scholars put together a report of recommendations for increased election security, addressing problems of cybersecurity, ballot security, and election transparency.
- By Kaitlyn DeHaven
- Jun 11, 2019
Florida officials use tactile security feature to increase security on drivers licenses and identification cards.
- By Kaitlyn DeHaven
- Jun 10, 2019
For decades, public alerting systems have served as a critical notification tool for sending alerts to citizens’ smartphones, landlines and through broadcast channels.
- By Troy Harper
- Jun 01, 2019
In recent years, however, King City has become known for a different reason; in both 2013 and 2015, the city’s homicide per capita rate for victims between 18 and 22 years of age was the highest in the state of California. The main reason for this is that the city had become a point of contention in a turf war between rival Latino gangs to the north and south of King City.
I suppose when the topic of government security comes up, we often think big, as in the federal government. Let’s back it down a little bit and think of King City, Calif.
- By Ralph C. Jensen
- Jun 01, 2019
Multi-tenant buildings come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from a few to dozens of stories tall. Tenants may include residents, professional service providers, commercial businesses, government agencies or retail shops.
- By Dana Pruiett
- Jun 01, 2019
Just a few months ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its special report on the impact of climate change.
- By Julian Weinberger
- Jun 01, 2019