U.S. enforcement and intelligence officials said Wednesday that the no-fly list barring passengers with suspected terror ties from boarding planes has already increased in size since the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253, and was likely to get much larger. Security procedures have been stepped up since the attempted bombing of Delta Flight 253 [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and ...

Colorado's 9News reports federal prosecutors have charged a former Transportation Security Administration employee with attempting to sabotage terror watch list computers. According to the report, Douglas Duchak, 46, of Colorado Springs, faces two charges of attempting to damage protected TSA computers. Duchak pleaded not guilty and was released from custody. The suspect allegedly tried to send a virus [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security ...

McAfee Labs today published its March Spam Report. This month authors Adam Wosotowsky and Elan Winkler discuss a possible charity scam in France that takes advantage of sympathy for the victims of the Haitian earthquake, examine a ham campaign regarding events in Haiti, and look at another fraudulent attempt to connect lonely women with victims' [...]

Microsoft only issued two security bulletins and an advisory, but the Microsoft Tuesday release was far from uneventful and boring.

Most of us are familiar with how high profile news events are used for malware distribution. We’ve seen it many times such as with Tiger Woods’ scandal and the earthquake in Haiti. Now the recent earthquake in Chile is used to prey upon unsuspecting folks interested in what’s going on with the post-quake and tsunami. [...]

While many are disappointed American turncoat Adam Gadahn was not the al-Qaeda operative arrested in Pakistan, as erroneously reported on Monday, there is still good cause to celebrate: Al Qaeda is on the run. And it is a fitting irony that Gadahn’s latest propaganda video, released last Sunday, serves as an indicator al-Qaeda’s time in Pakistan [...]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 alleged mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings is believed to have been killed in a shoot-out with Indonesian police on the outskirts of Jakarta today. Dulmatin, nicknamed the Genius, was an explosives expert who was believed to have set off one of the Bali bombs with a mobile phone, as well as helping 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. ...

The RSA Conference in San Francisco, CA just concluded and it was overflowing with the latest security information, insights and news. There's been a lot of buzz about this security event and we've compiled a few of those links for you. Studies and research NSS Labs Study on social attack aversion NSS Labs released its latest [...]

Some of you have been waiting for this and here it is, finally! The official site for ShmooCon just post the slides and video of the various sessions. Here are a few picks from this bunch. Each video file is about 100mb. Happy downloading! Becoming Jack Flack: Real Life Cloak Dagger A talk about how to [...]