Site Map - International

02/24/2010 - Expectations that are at odds with reality present challenges to contractors working in Afghanistan.

02/05/2010 - ♦ Federal air marshals tell CNN that they are assigned "short-haul flights" rather than international high-risk flights to make the Federal Air Marshal Service look more productive on paper. ♦ The 23-year-old jihadist that tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas has told federal investigators that a radical American cleric in Yemen, also linked to the Fort Hood shooting rampage, directed him to conduct the attack. ♦ If you're one of the 45 million Americans still using Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 6, it's time to upgrade to version 8. ♦ During the down economy, Frost & Sullivan says there's one market that has seen muscular growth: homeland security. ♦ Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told lawmakers that more and more American Muslims are radicalizing but that their attention is directed overseas.

02/04/2010 - ♦ Mayor Michael Bloomberg presses Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for more money to defend New York City from nuclear terrorism. ♦ A Pakistani newspaper calls the United States use of aerial drones over Pakistani soil terrorism. ♦ The National Security Agency will partner with Google to investigate a recent cyberattack that the company alleges originated in China. ♦ TIME magazine wants to know: Where was the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) when the Underwear Bomber was arrested on Christmas? ♦ A cyberattack could deliver a crippling blow to the United States, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the House Intelligence Committee yesterday.  

01/28/2010 - Rep. Gus Bilirakis has a good question for Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano: "Where are all the visa screeners we gave you money for?"

10/27/2009 - Information security experts are advising consumers on how to recognize popular ATM fraud schemes plaguing Europe.

10/26/2009 - The government body that regulates South Africa's private security industry is re-vetting everyone in their databases to weed out security professionals and companies that have a criminal record, reports the Independent Online.

10/23/2009 - Some London neighborhoods are set to look a little more like Northern Ireland as elite paramilitary police hit the streets of specific neighborhoods marked by high levels of gang-related violence, reports The Telegraph.

10/22/2009 - The Dutch government on Tuesday told representatives from U.S. security companies that it's open for business and offered a new initiative to help them succeed in the Dutch and European marketplace.

10/22/2009 - The Pakistani government has closed the country's schools to protect educational institutions after twin suicide bombings ripped through the International Islamic University (IIU) earlier this week.

10/09/2009 - A U.S. Customs and Border Protection official recently stressed the importance of international cooperation in reducing the threat from counterfeit and pirate merchandise.

07/27/2009 - The discovery that a self-radicalized man from Long Island, New York, traveled to Pakistan to fight with al Qaeda has raised concerns among counterterrorism officials that other self-radicalized militants could follow a similar path, reports the Los Angeles Times.

07/15/2009 - The State Department will rank the United States in the same way as it currently rates foreign countries in future reports on human trafficking, according to CNSNews.com.

03/24/2009 - Terrorism, piracy, corruption, and drug-fueled violence were the top overseas security threats to America’s private sector in 2008, according to the State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council.