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A recent government report claimed that the Department of Homeland Security has made major strides to protect the power grid from a crippling attack, but that report runs counter to sworn testimony in front of Congress and to what experts ...

  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lacks the resources and personnel needed to protect America’s critical infrastructure from a cyberattack, the agency’s head has acknowledged. The department even lacks the funds to hire the top cybersecurity experts. “We are ...

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have begun issuing warnings to America’s power grid operators and other utilities about the serious threat of cyberattacks in the wake of a successful attack on the Ukrainian power grid last year. ...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pressuring a small town library to stop using a popular secure Internet browser. DHS asked local police and city officials to tell the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, New Hampshire, to stop ...

America’s energy grid is under constant attack by hackers and cyber criminals, with 79 incidents during fiscal year 2014 alone. The year before, there were 145. The data is from the US Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team, ...

A massive magnetic solar storm could knock out much of the US electrical grid and leave 130 million people in the dark, a report from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) concludes. The Federal Interagency Response Plan – Space Weather ...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is incapable of dealing with a major influenza pandemic or epidemic despite spending $47 million on preparations, the agency’s own inspector general concluded. An audit found that the department could not even keep ...

A Florida woman claims the Department of Homeland Security forced her to strip naked and then handcuffed her during a no-knock raid at dawn that turned up nothing and left them wondering the purpose behind the invasion. According to Kari ...

A Pennsylvania woman claims doctors took her seven-day-old healthy baby and called police and social workers simply because she gave birth at home. She also says that doctors at St. Joseph’s Hospital transferred her baby to another hospital without her ...

A national license plate recognition database apparently will soon become a reality in the United States, thanks to a Department of Homeland Security initiative. Once the system is activated, personal information will be shared with law enforcement and governmental agencies ...