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Mozilla resists US agency takedown request

...The US Department of Homeland Security has asked Mozilla to remove a Firefox add... Read more

6 May, 2011 by Ben Woods

Copyright enforcement organisation found torrenting

IP addresses assigned to a major intellectual property body and the US Department of Homeland Security have been linked to torrents for downloading pirated... Read more

19 December, 2011

US security agency hunts international cybercrime ring

...according to reports. On Monday, technology news site ComputerWorld reported that the US Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigations unit... Read more

5 January, 2011 by Liau Yun Qing

US judge hears challenge to laptop seizures

Civil liberties groups have challenged powers that allow the US Department of Homeland Security to seize travellers' laptops at the border, even... Read more

11 July, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Scada implicated in hack on water utility

...months before it was identified as a cyber attack," he wrote. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sought to downplay the security concerns generated... Read more

19 November, 2011

EU and US team up for cybersecurity exercise

...agencies including the European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) and the US Department of Homeland Security. "We have two scenarios to look at what... Read more

3 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Hague lists cyber 'rules of the road'

...internet road rules has become popular among policy makers. In 2010, former US Department of Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff advocated a cyber 'cold war... Read more

1 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

It's 1 am - do you know where your data is?

If you're using a US-owned or hosted cloud service provider, then there's no way of knowing. That's because the US's... Read more

13 July, 2011

US Homeland Security postpones Real ID deadline

...in states objecting in some form. Credit: American Civil Liberties Union The US Department of Homeland Security on Saturday postponed the effective date of the... Read more

7 March, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Cyberthreats among top threats to UK, gov't says

...systems are under persistent cyberattack. Michael Chertoff, the former secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the US... Read more

18 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Chertoff advocates cyber Cold War

...to the Cold War-era principle of nuclear deterrence, according to former US Department of Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff. 'Rules of the road' for... Read more

14 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Report doubles amount of US government datacentres

...by Vivek Kundra and Richard Spires, the chief information officer for the US Department of Homeland Security, also includes a breakdown of datacentres by US... Read more

14 October, 2010
NTAS TerrorAlert 1.0

NTAS TerrorAlert 1.0

...provides a quick and easy way to view current alerts from the US Department of Homeland Security, National Terrorism Advisory System. View all current alerts... Read more

4 October, 2011
Homeland Security 1.3

Homeland Security 1.3

...provides Real Time access to Threat Level Alert Information provided by the US Department of Homeland Security. It will alert you to changes in threat... Read more

19 March, 2011

Open-source bug-hunting effort to grow

...flaws is expanding. The effort, supported by a research contract from the US Department of Homeland Security, is now scanning code of 150 open-source... Read more

28 March, 2007 by Joris Evers

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