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Source: Crime and Justice News, March 8, 2007. "The U.S. is trying to mount a high-tech effort to combat a labyrinth of tunnels built by Mexican drug ... growing concern for United States' national security,' says the Homeland Security Department's Science and Technology directorate, in a proposal for development of a tunnel-detection project. Homeland ... nab smugglers. Many of the more than 40 tunnels found under the U.S.-Mexican border since Sept. 11, 2001, are what 'gopher holes' - small, shallow, ...

... security data. Among the many duties of the 180,000-member Department of Homeland Security is detecting and fighting cyber threats and the agency gets major federal funding to do it. In fact, last year its National Cyber Security Division received an extra $25 million-in addition to its annual budget of $79 million--to ... and judicial corruption and promoting a return to ethics and morality in our nation's public life. To view the Judicial Watch Internet site click here (www.judicialwatch.org ...

... machine learning and you might get close to cool enough for these guys. That's why the Advanced Research Project Agency (HSARPA) wants to build a system that fuses information ... or deceitful acts will show various behavioral or physiological abnormalities. Though these signs can, at times, be detected by trained observers, they often go undetected and even ... Bowl goers, DHS has seen the future of security: it's a world where you get to keep your shoes on through security if you think pure thoughts ...

... nuclear security and the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism and the G-8 Global Partnership. · The Security Council's authority and vital role in addressing the threat to international peace and security posed by the spread of ... the international financial system as well as efforts to strengthen export controls on proliferation-related materials and stronger detection, deterrence and disruption of illicit trafficking in such materials. Key nuclear agreements, including START follow-on ...

... the breach, the organization is required to notify affected individuals as soon as is reasonably possible after detection of a breach,' the proposal states." "The document confirms there will no financial penalties if ... Act (...) " "During the 110th Congress, three data security bills - S. 239 (Feinstein), S. 495 (Leahy), and S. 1178 (Inouye) - were reported favorably ... bills were also introduced, including S. 806 (Pryor), S. 1202 (Sessions), S. 1260 (Carper), S. 1558 (Coleman), H.R. 516 (Davis), ...

... your computer into a host computer and source all their activities through your machine, insulating them from police detection. So when the authorities come a knocking, and eventually they will, you will look like the culprit. What agencies and users are starting to do is incorporate some of the changes recommended by a panel - Panel Offers Ways to Bolster Cyberspace Security. One security system is similar to a USB device that gives out scrambled codes every time the user seeks to log in ...

... backed by the plan. A receptionist there caught on, the authorities said, and called the police, who arrested him. In the world of computer security, that's known as social engineering. Hackers have recognized for a long time that it is far easier to trick someone into giving up their password than to "hack" it via wizardry. Dreier was apparently so good at it that even where detected by the boss no one questioned what he was up to until they got an explicit warning of fraud.

... the consumers received exactly what they expected and were not confused. In the new book "Gray Markets: Prevention, Detection and Litigation" by David Sugden, the author claims that such a market causes estimated losses of $40 billion in ... that all the defendants were aware of the problem of diversion of drugs and had failed to take appropriate steps to secure the distribution chain. The US District Court found that the wholesale distributor was in the best position to control movement of drugs ...

... to have a pat-down search instead, unless other primary screening methods identify the person as a potential security risk. Key Provisions (from a Privacy Perspective) of the Amendment The key sections of this Amendment are: (2) PROHIBITION ON USE FOR ... explosives, ceramic knives, and other objects that traditional metal detection cannot detect. That ought to be enough for us to understand this. "If you look at the privacy questions, let's be clear: the person who actually is there, the employee ...

... the total scope of each program -- what it covered, what it didn't, and how it implemented its particular features. Not every security product is going to intercept the same range of threats or handle really outlandish behaviors (like null byte obfuscation), ... pieces of in-the-wild malware (which is on the lower end of the scale of tested products). On the plus side, OneCare's detection system was pretty scrupulous: when I performed an on-demand scan of a known-bad item, OneCare took the time to ...