Modernization
5 steps to critical infrastructure collaboration
Two experts explain how to put homeland security front-and-center in today's connected world.
Cybersecurity
Hackers swipe traveler photos from CBP subcontractor
Customs and Border Protection acknowledged that images of travelers and license plates collected under its authority were stolen in a breach of a subcontractor's network.
Emerging Tech
Lawmakers Question Integrity of FBI’s Facial Recognition Program
The bureau for years ignored concerns about the accuracy and transparency of its facial recognition efforts, and the House Oversight Committee isn’t happy about it.
Cybersecurity
Why attribution is a means to an end
Law enforcement officials insist that accurately placing the blame on countries or groups who engage in destructive cyberattacks is a critical prelude to imposing more meaningful consequences.
Cybersecurity
Can the IC police foreign disinformation on social media?
The latest Intelligence Authorization bill includes $30 million for a new research center where social media companies, researchers and journalists work together to study and expose online disinformation campaigns.
Emerging Tech
Democrats, Republicans Both Want to Regulate Facial Recognition
If left unchecked, lawmakers worry the tech will infringe on Americans’ privacy and civil liberties, and perpetuate racial and gender discrimination in the criminal justice system.
Emerging Tech
ICE Seeks Tech To Track Electronic Devices—Even Through Time
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is soliciting for a cloud-based system that can geolocate devices using multiple sources, including apps.
Modernization
5G supply chain order worries industry, experts
Industry groups and experts want to know how rules arising from a Trump administration executive order issued will keep insecure gear out of the U.S. telecommunications supply chain.
Modernization
One City’s Journey to Filing Complaints About Police Online
Austin, Texas, debuted an anonymous online feedback form that eases the process for residents to describe interactions they have with police officers
Emerging Tech
NIST Is Staging An Armed Robbery To Improve Video Surveillance
Before researchers can test the latest video analytics, they need a variety of footage from different angles, conditions and recording quality.
Cybersecurity
DOJ charges former intel contractor with drone leaks
Daniel Everette Hale, a former Leidos contractor, is charged with passing a series of classified documents related to U.S. drone warfare and counterterrorism policy to a reporter.
Modernization
Oracle protests JEDI exclusion
Now that it's officially out of the running for the Pentagon's $10 billion warfighter cloud award, Oracle has updated its ongoing lawsuit against the procurement and its requirements.
Artificial Intelligence
Here Come AI-Enabled Cameras Meant to Sense Crime Before It Occurs
The future of video surveillance is about detecting not just faces, but behaviors.
Cybersecurity
Threats known and unknown loom in 2020 elections
It remains to be seen whether election officials and federal agencies will be facing the same type of threats targeting election infrastructure and online discourse as they experienced in 2016 -- or if they should expect the unexpected.
Cybersecurity
FBI needs better data on cyber crime victims
Data used by the FBI's Cyber Division to advise victims of cyber intrusions is unreliable, according to a Justice Department audit.
Emerging Tech
A DNA Company Wants You to Help Catch Criminals
Family Tree DNA was criticized for secretly working with the FBI. Now it’s explicitly asking potential customers to help law enforcement.
Cybersecurity
CBP announces social media tracking program
Under a new initiative, certain Customs and Border Protection personnel are trolling public-facing social media for threats against agency facilities and officials.
Digital Government
Federal Taskforce Busts 61 Connected to Darknet Opioid Sales
Law enforcement officials seized more than $7 million and nearly 300 kilograms of drugs during the two-month operation.
Modernization
Helping Police Divert Mental Health Patients From ERs
A start-up wants to use a mobile app to allow clinicians and case workers to do remote patient evaluations when law enforcement officers respond to mental health calls.
Digital Government