SP's MAI Issue No. 12 | June 16-30, 2014 - Internal Security Updates
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INTERNAL SECURITY / VIEWPOINT
Cyber prowess
By Lt General (Retd) P.C. KatochUS and China will continue to be ‘friends’ and ‘cyber enemies’ at the same time and this will be the new exemplar of global relations...
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INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
England footballers passport details on TwitterIt has been reported in the media that the passport numbers of members of the England Football squad have been accidentally tweeted out...
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INTERNAL SECURITY
Home Minister reviews LWE situationThe Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh reviewed the security situation including left-wing extremism (LWE) in the state of Chhattisgarh.
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INTERNAL SECURITY
Security review of Jammu and KashmirSenior officers of the Department of Jammu and Kashmir Affairs briefed Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister, and Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State for Home, on different issues relating to the State of J&K.
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INTERNAL SECURITY
Modernisation of Central Armed Police ForcesRajnath Singh, Union Home Minister, and Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State, were briefed on the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and the modernisation of CAPFs and police forces in the country.
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INTERNAL SECURITY
Airport security reviewThe Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh held a meeting in New Delhi recently to review the security arrangements for airports in the country, especially in the light of the terrorist attack on Karachi airport...
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INTERNAL SECURITY
New Additional Secretary AppointedBraj Kishore Prasad, IAS, has joined as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Prasad is assigned the work of Foreigners Division, Police Modernisation, Freedom Fighters & Rehabilitation...
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INTERNAL SECURITY
Karachi airport attackedAround 10 gunmen attacked a security checkpost outside Pakistan’s Karachi airport recently. The terrorists were exchanging fire with troops, a day after a siege by the Taliban left 37 dead.
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INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
FIFA ignored 'high risk terror' warning with Qatar bidA security briefing ordered by FIFA less than a month before it awarded Qatar the 2022 World Cup found the Gulf state was a “high risk” target for terror attacks during the tournament...
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INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
Britain's nuclear stations breachedThe Scottish National Party has raised concerns over reports that security at Britain’s nuclear power stations is being breached eight times every month.
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INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
Hacking expert cracks government website in four minutesThe man who appeared before Congress recently to explain the security pitfalls of HealthCare.gov took to Fox News to explain just how easy it is to penetrate the website.
