For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. State Department has responded to increasing violent crime in Mexico by expanding the list of places that Americans should avoid for their own safety. An updated travel advisory released this week warned U.S. citizens to avoid non-essential travel to 14 states in northern and [...]
The governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa has promised an extensive probe into what happened to a Canadian woman hospitalized after she was badly beaten at a posh Mexico resort. Sheila Nabb, 37, was vacationing with her husband Andrew, at the all-inclusive Hotel Riu Emerald Bay resort last week when she was found inside [...]
The U.S. Government agency that manages airport security shifts its strategic emphasis from stopping weapons to finding people. It’s a potential $4 billion market for private industry, based on what the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, currently spends on aviation security. “Businesses that are good at data analysis, behavior-pattern recognition, big data handling, data-visualization — [...]
Boston’s Logan International Airport will be the testing ground of a new technology of airport security, aimed at screening passenger behavior. The test will start next Tuesdat. During the new development, officers of the TSA Transportation Security Administration working at the Logan Airport will train screeners on having more conversations with passengers at the security [...]
The Transportation Security Administration TSA, for its acronym in English) on Tuesday tested a new “Scanner” body, at the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. The scanner has a lower cost than others. Critics have complained that the normal scanner systems that capture images of the whole body of people violate their privacy, but Dwayne [...]
Recently, and due to the drug war in Mexico two new developments are happening in the U.S. border region of Rio Grande Valley and the north of Mexico. The first new development at the border is that more and more elite Mexicans look to foreign investment in the rio Grande Valley as a way to [...]
A company vying to sell airport shoe scanners has finished its “trial” at Indianapolis International, collecting results from 3,000 travelers who volunteered to try its machine in the lobby. Morpho Detection says its data-collection experiment, which ended in late July, showed its scanner can process more than 300 customers an hour. Travelers still had to [...]
A civilian armored car is a security vehicle which made by replacing the windows of a standard vehicle (typically a limousine or SUV) with bulletproof glass and inserting layers of armor plate into the body panels. Unlike a military armored car, which has armor plate mounted on the outside of the vehicle, a civilian armoured [...]
In Your Hotel All hotel rooms abroad are bugged for audio and visual surveillance. This statement, of course, is NOT TRUE, but that is the premise under which you must operate to maintain an adequate level of security awareness while conducting business abroad. Many hotel rooms overseas are under surveillance. In those countries where the [...]
Driving Abroad Obtain an International Drivers Permit (IDP). This can be purchased through your AAA Club (or similar). Have your passport photos and a completed application. There will be a fee involved. Carry both your IDP and your local/state driver’s license with you at all times. Some countries have a minimum and maximum driving age. [...]
Joe Parry says: In Intelligence Infographics ” a good sketch is better than a long speech”.
EISIC, Dr. Nasrullah Memon and Computational Criminology: Early Warning Informatics System could predict Terrorist Threats
Sensor Urban Environments can prevent and fight robberies, terrorism attacks, natural catastrophes and other emergencies.
Athens Cyber Security Conference, Dr. Thuraisingham´s “Data Mining for Security”.
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