Federal lawmakers are using the purse strings to coax more states into adopting rules that require suspects who are arrested for various crimes — but not charged — to submit to DNA sampling for inclusion into a nationwide database. It doesn’t matter if the suspect was charged or even acquitted. Sponsored by Harry Teague (D-New Mexico), the measure provides $75 million to the nation’s financially broken states —... 

A proposed global intellectual-property treaty no longer nudges the international community to develop “three strikes” protocols to suspend internet connections of customers caught downloading copyrighted works, according to a draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement released Tuesday. The official draft of the proposed intellectual property accord was released after months of leaks and assertions by the Obama administration... 

A federal judge on Wednesday said the George W. Bush administration illegally eavesdropped on the telephone conversations of two American lawyers who represented a now-defunct Saudi charity. The lawyers alleged some of their 2004 telephone conversations to Saudi Arabia were siphoned to the National Security Agency without warrants. The allegations were initially based on a classified document the government accidentally mailed to the former Al-Haramain... 

BOSTON — Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years and a day, and fined $25,000 on Friday for his role in breaches into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and other companies. The sentence will run concurrently with a 20-year sentence he received on Thursday in two other cases involving hacks into TJX, Office Max, Dave & Busters restaurants and others, …  Read More →

The authorities do not need court warrants to view and download files traded on peer-to-peer networks, a federal appeals court says. Wednesday’s 3-0 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concerned a Nevada man convicted of possessing child pornography as part of an FBI investigation. Defendant Charles Borowy claimed the Fourth Amendment required court authorization to search and seize his LimeWire files in 2007. The San Francisco-based... 

Federal authorities are charging a Las Vegas man with marketing a so-called “cookie-stuffing” operation, enriching himself and others while defrauding eBay along the way. The felony conspiracy to commit wire fraud charge levied Tuesday against Christopher Kennedy, who faces a maximum 5-year prison term, centers around his website the authorities claim he owns called saucekit. The now-defunct site lets nefarious website owners purchase... 

A Yemen-based offshoot of al-Qaeda has called on Muslims in the region to wage holy war against the US and its allies. A purported audio statement by Said al-Shihri, deputy leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, warned “American and Crusader interests are everywhere”. “Attack them and eliminate as many enemies as you can,” Mr Shihri urged. Al-Qaeda This story comes to  Read More →

The 180th Air National Guard at Toledo Express Airport trained for a terrorist attack Thursday. They were part of a NORAD exercise where two armed F-16’s took flight to intercept a passenger jet possibly hijacked by terrorists. Michael Cornell, Director of Owens Community Colleg’s Center for Preparedness, says “It’s just another example of how well the This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert.... 

This story came out two weeks ago and we didn’t post it. At the time it appeared the two tons of missing ammonium nitrate was most likely just a clerical error. Apparently that may not be end of the story according to an article in CTV News. We’ve been unable to locate any additional information This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source for homeland... 

A Hemet man was arrested after a strange chain of events, in which he allegedly took a woman from her home, handcuffed her and put her on a plane to the Philippines while posing as a U.S. Marshal, authorities said. On January 15, Hemet Police said Gregory R. Denny, 37, allegedly went to a home on This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source for homeland security  Read More →

I a rare move, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered that Ahmed Ressam, a convicted terrorist arrested in December 1999 in Port Angeles with a car full of explosives, be sentenced again. And this time, the court has ordered that U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, who presided over Ressam's trial and his sentencing This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s  Read More →

A female homicide bomber walking among Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad detonated an explosives belt on Monday, killing at least 54 people and wounding more than 122, officials said. The bombing was the first major strike this year against pilgrims making their way to the southern city of Karbala to mark a Shiite holy day. It came This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted... 

US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano gave an unprecedented seal of approval to Super Bowl safety measures on Monday after a stadium tour and a detailed look at preparations for Sunday’s game. “I didn’t have any (advice) to give,” Napolitano said. “They looked well prepared for the game. It all looked fine to me.” With technological upgrades This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National... 

The use of social media to inform communities about emergencies has taken local public information officers by storm. Recent events have outlined social media’s popularity as survivors of Haiti’s earthquake turned to Twitter and other networks to update their statuses and verify the well-being of loved ones. Its popularity with citizens worldwide has led to This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National... 

UPDATE: Continental Airlines Inc (CAL.N) flight bound from New Jersey to Colombia was diverted to Florida on Friday because of security concerns about a passenger, but the person was cleared by the FBI and the flight resumed, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration said. Government officials say a flight was diverted to Jacksonville, Fla., because a This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror...