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Breach Exposes Data From Thousands of DHS Employees

2016-02-09 00:03:41| PC Magazine Security Product Guide

A pro-Palestinian group is reportedly behind the breach; DHS says there's 'no indication' sensitive data was stolen.

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DHS Official: I Was Ordered to Purge Records of Islamic Terror Ties

2016-02-07 03:51:37| Airlines - Topix.net

A veteran official with the Department of Homeland Security claims he and other staff were ordered to destroy records on a federal database that showed links between possible jihadists and Islamic terrorist groups. "After leaving my 15-year career at DHS, I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America's counter-terror strategy, our leaders' willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness - and, consequently, our vulnerability to devastating, mass-casualty attack," the former employee, Patrick Haney, wrote in an explosive column that was published late Friday on The Hill website.

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DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties

2016-02-05 21:30:35| Airlines - Topix.net

Amid the chaos of the 2009 holiday travel season, jihadists planned to slaughter 290 innocent travelers on a Christmas Day flight from the Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan. Twenty-three-year old Nigerian Muslim Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab intended to detonate Northwest Airlines Flight 253, but the explosives in his underwear malfunctioned and brave passengers subdued him until he could be arrested.

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US GAO finds DHS lagging behind in developing biometric exit technology for airports

2016-01-21 01:00:00| Airport Technology

US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the country has been facing long-standing challenges in developing a biometric exit system to ensure effective airport exit security.

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