Tight security produces seven flight security incidents in one day
Aug 29, 2006
Amid new anxiety about air travel and tough new regulations covering what passengers may bring on planes, seven U.S. flights were involved in security incidents on Friday of last week. In one case, a stick of dynamite was found to have been aboard a flight.
The rash of events, safety consultants and others say, reflect heightened emotions and appropriately tightened security in the wake of an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners thwarted this month by British authorities....
Agents fake their way through border checkpoints
Aug 24, 2006
Random bag searches outside subways upheld
Aug 24, 2006
A federal appeals court has ruled that random police searches of passengers' bags and backpacks outside New York subway entrances are legal....
New TSA unit focuses on suspicious behavior
Aug 24, 2006
The Transportation Security Administration is experimenting with a new squad whose members do not look for bombs, guns or knives. Instead, the assignment is to find anyone acting suspicious....
Debate in U.S., Britain over airline passenger profiling
Aug 24, 2006
Homeland security officials in both the U.S. and in Britain are calling for expanded government monitoring and airline passenger profiling. House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King, (R-N.Y.), even suggests pulling those of Middle Eastern descent out of airport lines for additional questioning....
'Clean bombs' may be the new focus of explosives detection
Aug 24, 2006
Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee, says the type of bombs that the alleged London terror group intended to use to crash planes into the Atlantic probably would have slipped through airport detection devices armed even with the latest technology....
DHS seeks help with single sign-on solution
Aug 10, 2006
DHS urges computer users to install Windows patch ASAP
Aug 10, 2006
In a rare alert, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has urged Windows users to plug a potential worm hole in the Microsoft operating system, CNet reports.
DHS issued a news release this week recommending that people apply Microsoft's MS06-040 patch as quickly as possible. The software maker released the "critical" fix as part of its monthly patch cycle....
Passenger Adjustment Period
Aug 10, 2006
U.S. airline travelers adjust to new rules after alleged terrorist plot foiled....
Man finds port security hitch
Jul 27, 2006
Banned lighters may be flying high again
Jul 27, 2006
Nuclear cargo scans coming to American borders
Jul 27, 2006
