Category: DHS

DHS, vendors unveil open source intrusion detection engine

DHS, vendors unveil open source intrusion detection engine

The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF), a group funded by the U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and several security vendors, this week released an open source engine built to detect and prevent network...

Virus Attacks Siemens Plant-Control Systems

Virus Attacks Siemens Plant-Control Systems

Computer hackers have designed a virus that targets industrial control systems built by German engineering giant Siemens AG, activating a kind of malicious software that analysts say represents a growing corporate-espionage threat. The virus,...

EADS is keen to make defense acquisitions in the U.S.

EADS is keen to make defense acquisitions in the U.S.

EADS is keen to make “reasonable” acquisitions in the field of defense security and services in the U.S. over the next few years, Chief Executive Louis Gallois said over the weekend. The U.S. has...

Smuggling Attempt Thwarted on Calif. Coast

A collaborative effort between the Border Patrol and the Oceanside Harbor, Calif., police department prevented a maritime smuggling attempt early Friday morning as 22 foreign nationals who illegally entered the country at sea were...

FAA Pressed To Allow Drone Flights in non Segregated Air Space

FAA Pressed To Allow Drone Flights in non Segregated Air Space

  Unmanned aircraft have proved their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the pressure’s on to allow them in the skies over the United States. The Federal Aviation...

Border Patrol at 19,000 Feet Along Texas Border

Border Patrol at 19,000 Feet Along Texas Border

A Predator UAV climbed into the early morning Arizona sky June 1 and headed east to conduct the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s first surveillance flight along the U.S.-Mexican border in Texas. Cruising at...

3,000 Laptops Stolen From Mil Contractor

Thieves allegedly took an estimated 3,000 laptop computers from the Florida warehouse of a military contractor, police said. The thieves arrived by car at iGov Technologies in Tampa, a contractor for the top secret...

Turkish minister reveals purchase of 27 attack helicopters

Turkish minister reveals purchase of 27 attack helicopters

Today’s Zaman (Turkey) Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül has said that, in addition to an earlier decision to buy nine Italian AgustaWestland-made A129 attack helicopters, Turkey has also decided to lease nine A129s to meet...