Homeland Security Newswire
DHS has issued its 2025 threat assessment, focusing on the most direct, pressing threats to the U.S. homeland during the next year. The assessment is organized around DHS missions that most closely align or apply to these threats—public safety, border and immigration, critical infrastructure, and economic security.
DHS, threat assessment, 2025 | Homeland Security Newswire
Oct 12, 2024 · The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Intelligence Enterprise Homeland Threat Assessment reflects insights from across DHS, the Intelligence Community, and other critical homeland security agencies.The assessment focuses on the most direct, pressing threats to the U.S. homeland during the next year.. It is organized into four sections. This assessment is organized around DHS missions that ...
Terrorism, 7 October 202, Hamas, Israel. | Homeland Security …
Published 7 October 2024. Share |. The turbulent year since Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel draws to a close, marked by a sharp escalation in conflict between Israel and Iran and its proxies. Four CFR experts assess the changes since the attacks. One year after Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel, Elliott Abrams examines the extraordinary ...
AI, DHS S&T - Homeland Security Newswire
2 days ago · Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can potentially provide the homeland unprecedented opportunity to enhance its cybersecurity posture.The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is exploring the possibilities of using new advances in this technology to quickly process large amounts of data and deploy models to detect threats, increase resilience and provide more supply ...
China, competition, technology, hegemony, cyberattacks, critical ...
Apr 20, 2024 · FBI Director Christopher Wray on 18 April warned national security and intelligence experts, as well as students, that risks the government of China poses to U.S. national and economic security are “upon us now”—and that U.S. critical infrastructure is a prime target. “The PRC [People’s Republic of China] has made it clear that it considers every sector that makes our society run as ...
China, hacking, critical infrastructure | Homeland Security Newswire
Jan 31, 2024 · A December 2023 court-authorized operation has disrupted a botnet of hundreds of U.S.-based small office/home office (SOHO) routers hijacked by People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored hackers.The hackers, known to the private sector as “Volt Typhoon,” used privately-owned SOHO routers infected with the “ KV Botnet” malware to conceal the PRC origin of further hacking ...
Ports, port security, cyberattacks, infrastructure | Homeland …
Feb 22, 2024 · The White House is moving forward with reforms aimed at shoring up cybersecurity at U.S. ports, some of which may already be in danger of falling under the sway of hackers linked to China.. President Joe Biden issued an executive order Wednesday assigning responsibility for cybersecurity at ports and other maritime facilities to the U.S. Coast Guard, with the goal of making sure minimum ...
Domestic terrorism, law enforcement, countering violent …
Nov 1, 2022 · By measures of law enforcement investigations, domestic terrorism is increasing. The FBI notched roughly 1,400 domestic terrorism investigations by the end of fiscal year 2020, up considerably from the 1,000 average during previous years. By the end of 2021, however, the number of investigations had nearly doubled to 2,700.
Terrorism, extremism, domestic terrorism - Homeland Security …
Jan 9, 2024 · We enter the new year with “blinking lights everywhere,” Austin Doctor writes. “From a U.S. homeland security perspective, the terrorism threat in 2023 can be summarized as diverse, diffuse, and active. In 2024, we are likely to continue to see signs of continuing shifts in the terrorism landscape—such as the threats posed by lone juvenile offenders, the malign use of democratized ...
Ports, infrastructure, cybersecurity | Homeland Security Newswire
Mar 8, 2024 · The Biden administration’s ambitious rebuilding of America’s infrastructure—thanks to the $1.2 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)—brings to mind visions of politicians cutting ribbons at the reopening of a repaired bridge, or celebrating newly paved highways or transit systems.All those are crucial investments for safety, competitiveness, jobs, …