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....
Passenger Adjustment Period
Aug 10, 2006
U.S. airline travelers adjust to new rules after alleged terrorist plot foiled....
Front-Line Targets
By Paul Rothman
On an otherwise quiet Tuesday evening in July, the Indian financial capital of Mumbai is rocked by seven explosions on crowded commuter trains and in train stations. At least 464 people are injured — 174 are killed....
What's Wrong With Transportation Security?
By Michael Fickes
R. William Johnstone takes a different view of what went wrong with aviation security on 9/11. Instead of blaming intelligence failures that did not “connect the dots” in the months before the attack, Johnstone fingers failures of the security system in place that day. “That's my opinion,” he says. “It isn't necessarily a majority opinion.”...
Man finds port security hitch
Jul 27, 2006
Subways and buses remain vulnerable, House says
Jun 29, 2006
Al-Qaida plot against N.Y. subways uncovered
Jun 29, 2006
TSA unveils new air cargo security requirements
May 18, 2006
Background checks implemented for port workers
May 4, 2006
Senate study finds big gaps in cargo security
Apr 6, 2006
Customs fails dirty bomb test
Apr 6, 2006
Fast-Track Screening
Apr 1, 2006
The Registered Traveler Pilot Program, a 14-month U.S. government project undertaken in conjunction with UNISYS and SITA, came to a close at the end of...
Bomb parts easily slip past airports' security
Mar 22, 2006
RFID On The Go
By Jacqueline Emigh
TO HELP EASE convoy management and security during military operations, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has teamed up with Savi Technology, Sunnyvale,...
The Private Sector Tackles Public Access Control
By Michael Fickes
Who in that long line at the airport should not be allowed to get on the plane? Looking for that person has cost all of us countless hours since the Sept....
Actionable Intelligence
BY ERIN SEMPLE
In September of 2004, the Harbor Police for the Port of San Diego embarked on a data sharing initiative. The port installed Crossflo Systems' DataExchange...
