The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade held a joint hearing on Wednesday that examined the recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) on Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices.
On Oct. 21, hackers infiltrated... Read More »
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Champlain Border Patrol Station, Swanton Sector, in New York, arrested two Albanian nationals on Nov. 13 who entered the country illegally after their visa requests were denied.
The Swanton Border Patrol Sector Tactical Communications Center advised... Read More »
U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Gary Peters (D-MI) expressed their concerns regarding recent changes to the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) station in northeast lower Michigan.
The agent at the Alpena County CBP station is retiring and CBP does not plan to hire a new agent for the... Read More »
According to a recent clinical trial conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the experimental Ebola virus disease (EVD) treatment ZMapp was found to be safe and well-tolerated amongst participants.
NIH said that while the treatment appeared to be effective for participants, the... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently issued a guide for Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity to equip stakeholders with the knowledge to make risk-based decisions as they design, manufacture and use internet-connected devices and systems.
DHS issued the set of strategic... Read More »
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is hosting an event this week in Virginia to bring together international government officials and nuclear industry experts to discuss radiological, nuclear and cyber security priorities.
The project was initially launched to define the Nuclear Security Summit... Read More »
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said in a November terror threat snapshot that the growing threat of ISIS’ messaging continues to resonate in America, while the terror group targets the West at an alarming rate.
So far this year, 34 people... Read More »
A team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently published a study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases on the impact big data, such as electronic health records and social media, could have on identifying emerging disease threats or potential outbreaks.
Traditional... Read More »
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) recently released new guidelines for preventing and combating an emerging parasitic infection called leishmaniasis.
The leishmania parasite is found in approximately 90 percent of... Read More »
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently began recruiting military veterans under veterans’ recruitment appointment (RA) announcements for multiple CBP positions at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport complex.
The announcements began on... Read More »
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ (OPCW) executive council on Friday voted to adopt a decision that condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic.
OPCW called on all parties identified in OPCW-United Nations Joint... Read More »
Daniel Espejo Amos, a former officer with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison on Friday for taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes.
Amos was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald on charges stemming from a... Read More »
The MITRE Corporation recently elected former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Cathy E. Minehan to its board of trustees.
Rogers previously served as a U.S. House member from Michigan’s eighth congressional district for a total of seven terms. In the House, he worked as a member of the Energy... Read More »
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently began recruiting military veterans under veterans’ recruitment appointment (RA) announcements for multiple CBP positions at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport complex.
The announcements began on... Read More »
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) recently awarded $596,533 to Collaborations Pharmaceuticals Inc. (CPI) to develop a partnership with the Texas Biomedical Research Institute to repurpose an antimalarial for use against the Ebola virus disease.
Since the beginning... Read More »
