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The chair of a House subcommittee, and the chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce introduced H.R. 5820, the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act of 2010. “The introduction of
U.S. policy makers have missed a golden opportunity to make authentication technologies mandatory for intellectual property (IP) anti-counterfeiting strategies, says the International Authentication Association (IAA). Although the newly published U.S.
Investigators secretly detonated a working replica of the car bomb used in the failed Times Square terror attack, creating a large explosion that destroyed other vehicles and scattered flaming debris,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today (July 22) marked the sixth anniversary of the issuance of the 9/11 Commission Report by releasing a 2010 progress report outlining
A Senator from Virginia is calling on the U.S. President to develop plans to safeguard offshore platforms from attack by terrorists. While the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of
Many people in the Dallas area have expressed concern about a massive construction project inside city hall. Designed to improve security at the landmark, the price tag tops $300,000. Dallas
Protecting riders on mass transit systems from terrorist attacks will be as high a priority as ensuring safe air travel, the new head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) promised.
Two bills that seek to reduce the risk of a terrorist attack on U.S. chemical facilities and water treatment plants were delivered to the Senate June 15. A Democratic Senator
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how
Shimming is the newest con designed to skim a person’s credit card number, PIN and other info when one swipes a card through a reader like an ATM machine. The