Posts Tagged ‘dhs’

Your glass half empty, glass half full I’d say you’ve got some catching up to do Your glass half empty, glass half full I’d say you’ve got some catching up to do Best to impress, you win Everything you do Makes me wanna run from Give Me What I Want by Kids In Glass Houses [...]

Did you catch this post from the Homeland Security Blogwatch? [emphasis is mine] Some e-mails purporting to be from the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence division were fake and contained malicious software. The e-mails actually originated from Internet addresses in Latvia and Russia, according to a three-page alert from the Homeland Security Department’s counterintelligence unit. These [...]

In recent days the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been getting spanked pretty hard for being unprepared for cyberthreats. Since that mule has been pretty well beat to death, I’m not going to chime in on that. Instead, in the immortal words of the great philosopher sage Monty Python “And now for something [...]

9/11 seven years on

Posted: September 11, 2008 in general, professional, security
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Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released it’s annual report Fact Sheet: U.S. Department of Homeland Security 9/11 Anniversary Progress and Priorities which begins with the following introduction (emphasis mine): Since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made significant progress in protecting the nation from dangerous people and goods, protecting the nation’s [...]

It’s apropos that I’m starting this blog while enjoying the security theater accompanying the Democratic National Convention here in Denver. Specifically I’m watching the blackhawk helicopters patrolling our  friendly skies. I enjoy watching them so I’m not complaining. The point is that while it seems so obvious, preventing a terrorist attack is hardly an important [...]