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The White House is seeking to hire its first chief information security officer (CISO).

East St. Louis, Illinois and Camden, New Jersey rank first and second in an annual ranking of the country's most dangerous cities.
 

New York City will be awarded $176 million in federal funding to build a new flood protection system around Lower Manhattan.
 

U.S. military installations are no longer allowing visitors to gain base access using official ID cards from five states -- Illinois, New Mexico, Missouri, Washington and Minnesota -- because those cards don’t comply with federal standards.

Fliers who don't have the latest driver's licenses will have a two-year reprieve before their IDs are rejected at airport security checkpoints.

More than 181,000 consumer drones have been registered since the Federal Aviation Administration rolled out a mandatory registration program two weeks ago.
 

The Department of Homeland Security is accepting applications from graduate and undergraduate students for its Cyber Student Volunteer Initiative. 

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson activated the National Terrorism Advisory System for the first time today.
 

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy wants to ban people on federal terrorism watch lists from buying firearms in the state. 

DHS will unveil a new national alert system in the coming days to reflect the "new phase" of the terror threat.