President Barack Obama yesterday declared that a failure to appropriately share intelligence information allowed a 23-year-old Nigerian jihadist to board an airliner from Amsterdam with explosives, which he tried to detonate on the flight’s approach to Detroit.
The Wall Street Journal stands by its report yesterday that the FBI is investigating a cybertheft last summer or earlier where hackers stole tens of millions of dollars electronically from Citibank.
The bank has vigorously denied such reports and in a statement assured its customers their money is safe.
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Seven months after calling cybersecurity critical to "public safety and national security," President Barack Obama today will name his pick for the nation’s first cybersecurity czar.
According to The New York Times, the position will go to veteran cybersecurity professional Howard A. Schmidt:
Amid fears that moving enemy combatants from prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a correctional facility in rural Illinois poses an unnecessary security risk, the Obama administration says funding issues will delay the transfer of detainees until at least early 2011, according to The New York Times.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pushed back a pending deadline for state compliance with the REAL ID Act to May of 2011, averting the chaos that would have erupted Jan. 1 if people carrying newer, noncompliant state-issued IDs were unable to use them for federal purposes, like boarding commercial airline flights.
The U.S. Supreme Court last week agreed to hear oral arguments in a case brought by police officers who claim that their employers illegally read their private text messages.
A federal appeals court has ruled that a U.S. citizen who was wrongly accused and held for two weeks under suspicion of terrorism may not pursue his lawsuit against the government.
In response to past incidents of improper intelligence collection efforts directed against legal U.S. groups, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reemphasized its commitment to civil liberties and privacy protections, including creating a possible connection between those policies and grant awards at the state and local level.
Documents obtained by two civil liberties organizations reveal that during the Bush administration the Department of Homeland Security improperly investigated and surveiled American Muslims who had no ties to criminal activity or terrorism. The information collected, however, was destroyed after internal processes uncovered the violations of intelligence oversight guidelines.
