The world's five biggest AAA-rated states are all at risk of soaring debt costs and will have to implement austerity plans that threaten social cohesion, according to a report on sovereign debt by Moody's. The US rating agency said the US, the UK, Germany, France, and Spain are walking a tightrope as they try to [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. ...

Could parachute-wearing bears sniff out Osama bin Laden? That's one suggestion the Pentagon has received from someone who noted, quite correctly, that a bear's sense of smell is much more powerful than a bloodhound's. Overnight, Parachute some bears into areas [bin Laden] might be, the innovator wrote. Attempt to train bears to take off parachutes after landing, [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news ...

Osama bin Laden will never be captured alive, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers on Tuesday. The possibility of capturing him alive is infinitesimal, Holder said. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so that he is not captured by us. We know that. The possibility simply [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. ...

I recently took some time off which gave me the opportunity to clear my head and think about some of the big issues we’re facing with Internet security. I thought if I had to pick ...

The young Taliban detainee, shackled at the wrists, with his head covered with a black canvas bag, was chillingly clear about his lifeapos;s mission: The Taliban have only one objective: to continue killing the Americans. The tools this particular terrorist had adopted to accomplish that goal were not suicide bombs or sniper rifles, but laptop computers [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and ...

Technology drives just about everything we do, and not just at our jobs. From banks to hospitals to the systems that keep the juice flowing to our homes, we are almost entirely dependent on tech. More and more of these systems are interconnected, and many of them are vulnerable. We see it almost every day. But [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and ...

A former officer in the Pakistani military intelligence service with close ties to terrorist groups has denied that Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, was killed in a US air strike according to a report at The Long War Journal. Khalid Khawaja, a self-described humans rights activist with deep ties [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and ...

The Internet grew 20 percent uglier last year, with terrorists and racists increasingly turning to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter and targeting children, finds the 2010 Digital Hate Report. The Internet grew 20 percent uglier last year, with terrorists and racists increasingly turning to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. ...

Spencer Pratt is ready to jump into the fight against cyber-terrorism according to a report on FoxNews.com. In the report, Bill Beasley, president of American Defense Enterprises, a firearms training firm in Los Angeles, told FoxNews.com that he and Pratt are in the beginning stages of negotiations to start a cybersecurity venture. [...] Beasley said Pratt contacted him [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security ...

WKTV reports STD Carriers Disease Control and Prevention Services are looking for a cyber terrorist known as Mike Bascaino in the Poughkeepsie area. A man going by this name is believed to have accessed the computer systems of the International Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Carrier Registry over 100 times for the purpose of engaging in unauthorized [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and ...