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SP's MAI November 16-30, 2011 - Internal Security Updates

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  India urges UN to adopt anti-terror convention

  India recently said adoption of the comprehensive convention against international terrorism (CCIT) would provide a legal base for the fight against the global scourge

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  Shoe scanning device

  IDO Security recently exhibited MagShoe shoes-on scanning device at Israel’s Defence and Security Expo, ISDEF 2011.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  UH-72A with new mission equipment enters service

  EADS North America’s first UH-72A Lakota light utility helicopter (LUH) equipped with the security and support (S&S) battalion mission equipment package (MEP)...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  Need to develop robust aviation security

  The second meeting of the Security Advisory Council to Civil Aviation (SACCA) was held in Delhi recently under the chairmanship of the Secretary, Dr Nasim Zaidi.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
  DARPA increases investment in cyber research by 50 per cent

  DARPA Director, Regina E. Dugan, has reinforced that the advent of the Internet more than 40 years ago created both tremendous opportunities...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Keeping Mona Lisa ‘secure and smiling’

  The Mona Lisa painting which hangs in the Musée du Louvre in Paris has had many security scares. It was first stolen on August 21, 1911.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Escape from Alcatraz

  If there was ever an inmate who was destined to escape from Alcatraz, it was Frank Lee Morris.

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  IFSEC India to focus on homeland security

  IFSEC India 2011 returns to Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from December 8-10, 2011.

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  ManTech bags contract from DHS

  ManTech International has received a US Department of Homeland Security contract for continued information technology services in support of the Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technology (SAFETY) Act of 2002.

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  EU & US conduct readiness tests for cyber attacks

  The first test of trans-Atlantic responses to cyber incidents, including cyber attacks, took place in Brussels recently.

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  Singapore’s biggest manhunt

  According to Wikipedia, Mas Selamat bin Kastari, an Indonesian-born Singaporean, was for more than a year Singapore’s most-wanted fugitive after escaping from detention on February 27, 2008.