Coastal challengesMitigating Coastal Flooding, Erosion and Storm Damage Published 28 December 2020 Sea level rise and wave-induced flooding during increasingly frequent storm events threaten sustainability of the more than 1,700 Department of Defense (DoD) managed military installations in coastal areas worldwide. Current DoD coastal protection measures, including bulkhead and coastal seawalls, may reflect wave energy,

Our picksGoing on Cyber Offense | Data Theft Risk Posed by Chinese Technology | Floating Cities Published 28 December 2020 ·  With Hacking, the United States Needs to Stop Playing the Victim ·  SolarWinds Hackers ‘Impacting’ State, Local Governments, US Cyber Agency Says ·  Dominion Voting Systems May Sue President Trump Personally for Spreading Election Fraud Disinformation · 

The Russia connectionRevelations of Cyberattacks on U.S. Likely Just “Tip of the Iceberg” Published 25 December 2020 Russian government hackers have infiltrated the computer networks of some of the nation’s biggest corporations, leading defense contractors, and top U.S. government agencies, including those in national security branches, in what security analysts believe is a “very significant”

CybersecurityAssessing President Trump’s Legacy of Cyber Confusion By Brandon Valeriano Published 25 December 2020 After Chris Krebs, the head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), was fired by President Trump for releasing a statement claiming, “the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history,” Donald Trump’s campaign lawyer, Joe diGenova countered

Face masksFace Masks Change the Way We Process Faces Published 25 December 2020 Ever want to walk over to say hello to someone but you’re not sure the person behind the mask is in fact someone you know? Researchers say you’re not alone. Ever want to walk over to say hello to someone but you’re not

TerrorismTerrorist Groups Using COVID-19 to Reinforce Power and Influence: INTERPOL Published 23 December 2020 A new report issued by INTERPOL assesses the impact of COVID-19 on global terrorism, trends and potential risks related to attacks on vulnerable targets and bioterrorism is the focus of. As COVID-19 cases subside in some regions and surge in others,

Editor’s note Published 24 December 2020 You may have noticed that the Homeland Security News Wire has not arrived in your in-box regularly in the past seven days. The reason: Our email distributor has made changes to their system, and some of these changes, about which we had not been given a heads-up, could not

TerrorismArgentina: 1994 AMIA Jewish Center Bombing Still Shrouded in Mystery By Andreas Kobloch Published 23 December 2020 It has been 26 years since the bloody attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association in Buenos Aires which left 85 people dead. So far, nobody has been convicted of the truck bombing — but that could soon change.

TerrorismTerrorist Groups Using COVID-19 to Reinforce Power and Influence: INTERPOL Published 23 December 2020 A new report issued by INTERPOL assesses the impact of COVID-19 on global terrorism, trends and potential risks related to attacks on vulnerable targets and bioterrorism is the focus of. As COVID-19 cases subside in some regions and surge in others,

Election securityElection security It’s Official: The Election Was Secure Published 23 December 2020 Election officials and election security experts have long been clear: voter fraud is extraordinarily rare and the U.S. system has strong checks in place to protect the integrity of our voting process. “These are the facts,” says the Brennan Center for Justice.