SP's MAI August 01-15, 2011 - Internal Security Updates
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INTERNAL SECURITY / VIEWPOINT
Indo-Pak dialogue: Empty rhetoric
By Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. PandeyThere was no acceptance of responsibility, sign of remorse or commitment from the Pakistani Foreign Minister about her country’s approach...
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INTERNAL SECURITY / VIEWPOINT
The bug of bugging
By Lt General (Retd) P.C. KatochTelephone tapping and eavesdropping on conversations in any case are minor compared to the ever expanding networks...
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INTERNAL SECURITY / REPORT
Children used as suicide bombers: UN ReportThe United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in its 2011 mid-year report on protection of civilians in armed conflict in Afghanistan...
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INTERNAL SECURITY / REPORT
Nuclear forces ‘leaner but meaner’: SIPRI reportThe Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has launched the findings of SIPRI Yearbook 2011
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INTERNAL SECURITY
SAARC has to be proactive in countering terrorism: Home MinisterThe Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram attending the fourth SAARC Interior/Home Ministers Meeting at Thimpu, Bhutan
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INTERNAL SECURITY
India, Pakistan Ministers meet at ThimpuThe Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram, and the Interior Minister of Pakistan Senator A. Rehman Malik met in Thimpu to solve some of the differences.
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INTERNAL SECURITY
Norway shocked by mass killingNorway’s worst massacre since World War II saw a lone man killing 76 people end July.
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INTERNAL SECURITY
New fingermarks detection technologySheffield Hallam University has indicated that the Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology is interested in the university’s research on fingermarks detection technology.
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INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
India and US sign cyber pactA memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cyber security has been signed between India and the US.
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INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
Michael Jackson’s ‘health files’ breachedThe UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center was asked to pay $95,000 as penalties for multiple breaches by two employees and two contract workers for ‘improperly accessing’ the health files of a deceased patient, reportedly that of Michael Jackson.
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INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
Fort Hood shooting reveals security lapsesThe November 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, the most populous US military installation in the world
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INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
Police impostors steal paintingsTwo men dressed as police officers knocked on the security entrance side door of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990. The security guards let them in thinking they were police only to learn that they were not.
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INTERNAL SECURITY
TSA enhancing passenger privacyAs part of its ongoing commitment to take smart steps to maintain high level security standards while also improving the passenger experience at checkpoints
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INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
Raytheon gets funding for MNP programmeRaytheon BBN Technologies has received an award worth $16 million in additional funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
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INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
NATO probes hackingNATO has said that it was investigating claims of Anonymous, the hacker group, that data had been compromised from alliance computers.
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INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
US, Russia cooperate on cybersecurityRussia and the US are working to reduce chances for a cybersecurity incident that could damage the countries’ relationship, according to Howard Schmidt, the White House cybersecurity adviser.
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INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
US military publisher sites hackedThe web servers of Gannett Government Media was hacked recently.
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INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
DoD faces challenges in its cyber activitiesThe US Department of Defense (DoD) is in the midst of a global cyberspace crisis as foreign nation states and other actors, such as hackers, criminals, terrorists and activists exploit DoD
