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US govt to get early warning of Net attacks
News A centralised early warning system for Internet security alerts should be working by this autumn, an official from the US Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday afternoon. Gewis is intended to act as a kind of central hub that monitors...
[August 1, 2003, 10:40]
US considers jailing hackers for life
News A last-minute addition to a proposal for a Department of Homeland Security would punish malicious computer hackers with life in prison. By inserting CSEA into the Homeland Security bill, the measure's backers are hoping for a second chance before...
[November 14, 2002, 15:16]
US privacy advocates sue over national IDs
News A privacy group said Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the US' federal Office of Homeland Security in an attempt to gain access to information about a proposed national identification system.
[April 3, 2002, 9:34]
Bush security drive could include privacy czar
News President Bush's proposed Department of Homeland Security is likely to get its own privacy czar. A draft of the legislation seen by CNET News.com states that the Secretary of Homeland Security must appoint a privacy officer to ensure that new...
[July 11, 2002, 10:08]
US head of cybersecurity quits to spend more time with his family
News The top cybersecurity official in the United States has resigned, a little more than a year after joining the Department of Homeland Security, the agency said on Friday. Amit Yoran, director of the National Cyber Security Division of the Department...
[October 4, 2004, 11:45]
No spat here says US cybersecurity investigator
Blog In an earlier post, I flagged up the fact that the head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just happens to be at the same IT security show in London as someone who appeared to have made negative comments about his...
[October 29, 2008, 18:17]
Coverity reveals common open-source code flaws
News A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open-source security, while outlining some common errors. Coverity, a commercial code-analysis company spun out of Stanford University, has been running its Scan...
[May 20, 2008, 17:35]
Experts: US cybersecurity needs fresh ideas
News The US Department of Homeland Security is too reactionary in terms of cybersecurity threats, and needs to develop stronger incentives for the private sector to take preventative measures against cyberthreats, policy experts said on Wednesday.
[December 4, 2008, 11:35]
US on hunt for 1,000 cybersecurity experts
News The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that it had been given the authority to hire the staff on Thursday, at the start of US National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. As part of its efforts to improve its response, the US government set up...
[October 5, 2009, 16:42]
Obama urged to appoint cybersecurity chief
News The US Department of Homeland Security has failed to ensure the nation's cybersecurity, because the threat of cyberattacks is too vast for any one agency to tackle and must be addressed by a new White House office, as well as revised laws and...
[December 10, 2008, 8:35]
US names cybersecurity head
News Inside the vast homeland-security bureaucracy, Yoran will lead a relatively small group: the National Cyber Security Division, which had only 60 employees when Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge created it in June.
[September 16, 2003, 9:05]
Bush beefs up cybercrime spending
News The record budget request for the 2005 fiscal year, which begins on 1 October, 2004, asks Congress to ignore a widening deficit of $521bn and to increase defence spending by 7 percent and homeland security spending by 10 percent.
[February 3, 2004, 9:10]
US unveils terrorism readiness Web site
News The campaign was launched in response to the Department of Homeland Security's growing, perceived threat of terrorism in the United States. While this department and organisations around the country work hard every day to prevent terrorist attacks...
[February 20, 2003, 12:40]
International cyberattack drill tests nations' responses
News The exercise, which began on 10 March, 2008, was designed to test the readiness of the US, the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand to respond to information systems attacks, and was co-ordinated by the US Department of Homeland Security.
[April 10, 2008, 11:22]
Finger Scan Pro
Downloads Fourteen customizable security themes allow you to imitate organizations such as the FBI, Homeland Security, the CIA, MI6, and more! Included Themes:ClassicFederal Bureau of InvestigationCentral Intelligence AgencyNational Security AgencyNational...
[January 4, 2010, 7:16]
New! Travel Safely in Foreign Countries
Downloads Having to find relevant information in paper handbooks during a crisis is difficult and time-consuming.The Terrorism Survival Bundle puts this information at your fingertips, in an easy-to-read, easy to search format.Stephenson Strategies, a...
[August 5, 2006, 8:00]
Bush unveils final cybersecurity plan
News The Department of Homeland Security to recommend that ISPs adopt a "code of good conduct" A single Department of Homeland Security contact for the federal government and industry to report incidents The document released Friday has been reorganised...
[February 17, 2003, 8:19]
US to create 'risk assessments' of air passengers
News The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has implemented a data-mining scheme for all passengers travelling to the US, including travellers from the European Union. Homeland Security needs to delay the deployment of this system and allow for an...
[December 5, 2006, 11:45]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Protecting Our Southern Border Against the Terrorist Threat
White Papers Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Customs and Border Protection have taken a number of steps to increase security across our borders during the "period of increased...
[January 14, 2009, 4:30]
US Government failing on cybersecurity
News The US Department of Homeland Security earned failing marks in an annual computer security report card released on Thursday by a congressional oversight committee. The Department of Homeland Security has proven itself a particular magnet for...
[March 17, 2006, 9:40]
