Homeland Security News - Dr. Tom Seymour

Week in Review
U.S. illegal immigrant population declines
The population of illegal immigrants in the United States has declined by 7 percent from an estimated 11.6 million to 10.8 million for the year ending January 2009, compared to the previous year; about 37 percent are believed to have entered the country in the last decade; 44 percent entered the United States during the 1990s and 19 percent during the 1980s
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Revolutionary water treatment system may make coping with disaster easier
Researchers develop a revolutionary waste-water treatment device which uses little energy, is transportable, scalable, simple to set-up, simple to operate, comes on-line in record time, and can be monitored remotely; new system cleans influent wastewater within twenty-four hours after set-up to discharge levels that exceed the standards established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for municipal wastewater
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TSA’s proposal for tougher general-aviation security to be scaled back
TSA wanted to apply tougher security rules to the 15,000 or so private planes — aka “general aviation” — but operators and owners of such planes, and also DHS IG, said the risk such planes posed to U.S. security was not great; TSA is now planning to scale down general aviation security measures
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Analysis

Robust homeland security market in 2010
The homeland security market has grown by 12 percent in the last year, and the trend will continue in 2010; homeland security budgets in the government and public sectors around the world continue to grow despite economic downturn, budget cuts, and belt tightening; in the United States, the proposed 2011 DHS budget will see an increase of nearly 3 percent, and the homeland security portion of the Department of Defense s budget will see an increase as well; the 2010 business outlook for homeland security products and services remains strong, buoyed by the increased security threats; organization of mass events like the Olympics and commonwealth games; infrastructure modernization programs in different countries; protection of critical infrastructure; and Border protection
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Utilities to bolster smart grid cybersecurity
Annual spending on cybersecurity by electric utilities will triple by 2015, driven by investment in equipment protection and configuration management; between 2010 and 2015, Utility companies will invest more than $21 billion on cybersecurity
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Aging infrastructure poses economic, security risks
The World Bank says global infrastructure investment needs will be $35 trillion over the next twenty years; in the United States, a leading engineers group estimates that $2.2 trillion is needed over the next five years; the group gave U.S. critical infrastructure a D grade in 2009
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New method of sensing concrete corrosion
Researchers develop a novel sensor system to monitor the early signs of concrete corrosion, which could reduce expensive, long-term maintenance costs; the sensors measure the key parameters related to concrete corrosion — pH, chloride, and humidity — in highly alkaline environments
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NAS: selling vast federal helium reserves is a mistake
Helium is used in airships, space rockets, nuclear missiles, IT hardware, enormous magnetic particle cannon dimension portals, MRI brain probes, and deep-diving breathing gases; U.S. annual helium use amounts to 650 million cubic feet; in the U.S. federal helium reserve in Texas, though., more than 35 billion cubic feet are stored; Congress wants this vast amount sold by 2015, scientists say it is a bad idea
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U.K. police looking for PC crime breathalyser
U.K. e-crime cops turn to technology to boost frontline forensics; the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) is looking for digital triage tools that would give frontline police with little training in digital forensics the ability to search for anything from text in e-mails relating to stolen goods to illegal images
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New technologies unveiled to protect U.K. 75 million mobile phone users from crime
U.K. e-commerce, or contatcless, mobile transactions, will account for £151 billion by 2013. the U.K. government s Design Council unveils three solutions aiming to make mobile phones and, hence, e-commerce safer
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Oak Ridge develops powerful intrusion detection systems
The attack analysis program uses machine learning to increase effectiveness; ORCA effectively sits on top of off-the-shelf intrusion detection systems, and its correlation engine processes information and learns as cyberevents arrive; the correlation engine supplements or replaces the preset rules used by most intrusion detection systems to detect attacks or other malicious events
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