Gov. John Bel Edwards (La.) and Maj. Gen. Glenn Curtis of the La. National Guard announced plans to establish a major cybersecurity center on the Water Campus south of downtown Baton Rouge.
The number of calls to an FBI tip line designed to prevent and investigate mass shootings and other attacks rose by 70 percent in the week after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, FBI officials said.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced that Alfie, a four-year-old yellow lab and explosive detection K9 who works at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX), was voted the winner of TSA’s “cutest K9” contest.
FEMA announced $10 million in competitive awards for its Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) to eight local governments to assist in developing innovative regional solutions to issues related to catastrophic incidents.
The Oregon School District Board, Wis. is asking the Village of Oregon to reconsider the school resource officer agreement for the new school year, as it allows the police chief to direct the housing of an AR-15 style assault riffle in the high school for safety.
Eighty percent of surveyed small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) rank IT security as a top business priority, with 29 percent spending less than $1,000 on IT security annually, according to a new Untangle 2019 "SMB IT Security Report".