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According to Greenpeace, the giant holding tanks and railroad cars full of hazardous materials at industrial plants near Houston, Texas, are ripe for disaster — be it by terrorist attack
The first week of this month highlights the ongoing airport security incidents that can often close terminals and lead to arrests. The discovery of a suspicious package at Miami International
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today that Predator Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) flights will begin out of Corpus Christi, Texas, beginning on Wednesday, Sept.1. With
For perimeter monitoring, outdoor video surveillance provides information not available with other technologies. There is greater use outdoors, thanks in part to the growing application of megapixel cameras. But there
Federal, state and local agencies last week responded to a simulated attempt by extremists to seize radioactive cobalt from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for use in a radiological
A research team at North Carolina State University has used a building ventilation duct to at least triple the normal distance that radio waves emitted from passive RFID tags can
To better secure unclassified information stored in the computer networks of government contractors, the Defense Department is asking whether the National Security Agency should begin to monitor select corporate dot.com
Heartland Payment Systems, which last year suffered the largest ever data breach involving payment card data, is downplaying reports out of Austin, Texas linking the payment processor to a data
Rapid advances in bioscience are raising alarms among terrorism experts that amateur scientists will soon be able to gin up deadly pathogens for nefarious uses. Fears of bioterror have been
A 27-year-old suspect who concealed an embezzlement scheme in Kalamazoo for five years totaling $950,000 was sentenced to serve 41 months in prison for thievery. The woman who headed the