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Asia-Pacific Defense Spends on Homeland Security, 2016 to 2025 | Homeland Security Degrees
Asia-Pacific Defense Spends on Homeland Security, 2016 to 2025 | Homeland Security Degrees
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Strategic Defense Intelligence in its report “Asia-Pacific Defense Spends on Homeland Security, 2016 to 2025” has considered Homeland security (HLS) to include protection of a Asia-Pacific’s civilians and critical infrastructure from natural or man-made ……
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Posted on December 19th, 2016
To Russia with love: Trump’s precarious path on hacking and intelligence | Homeland Security Degrees
To Russia with love: Trump’s precarious path on hacking and intelligence | Homeland Security Degrees
https://homelandsecurityedus.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/to-russia-with-love-trumps-precarious-path-on-hacking-and-intelligence/
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Posted on December 18th, 2016
DNSChanger Exploit kit targets Home routers in malvertising campaign | Homeland Security Degrees
DNSChanger Exploit kit targets Home routers in malvertising campaign | Homeland Security Degrees
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Security experts observed malvertising campaign leveraging the DNSChanger malware to compromise multiple models of home routers.
The Christmas season can be the busiest time of the year for online shopping in many countries. Researchers at Proofpoint have recently announced the discovery of a new and improved version of the DNSChanger Exploit Kit.
“Since the end of October, we have seen an improved version of the “DNSChanger EK” [1] used in ongoing malvertising campaigns. DNSChanger attacks internet routers via potential victims’ web browsers; the EK does not rely on browser or device vulnerabilities but rather vulnerabilities in the victims’ home or …
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Posted on December 18th, 2016
FBI agrees with CIA: Russia’s cyberattacks campaign aimed to help Trump win election | Homeland Security Degrees
FBI agrees with CIA: Russia’s cyberattacks campaign aimed to help Trump win election | Homeland Security Degrees
https://homelandsecurityedus.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/fbi-agrees-with-cia-russias-cyberattacks-campaign-aimed-to-help-trump-win-election/
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Posted on December 18th, 2016
Houston’s New Police Chief: Body Cameras Should Start Recording Automatically After Police Leave Vehicles | Homeland Security Degrees
Houston’s New Police Chief: Body Cameras Should Start Recording Automatically After Police Leave Vehicles | Homeland Security Degrees
https://homelandsecurityedus.wordpress.com/2016/12/17/houstons-new-police-chief-body-cameras-should-start-recording-automatically-after-police-leave-vehicles/
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Remarks by Rice University President David Leebron, 61st U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker, and Secretary John Kerry at the Baker Institute for Public Policy on April 26, 2016. A transcript is available at
http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2016/04/256618.htm.
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Posted on December 17th, 2016
Analysis: The Evolving Islamic State | Homeland Security Degrees
Analysis: The Evolving Islamic State | Homeland Security Degrees
https://homelandsecurityedus.wordpress.com/2016/12/17/analysis-the-evolving-islamic-state/
As Iraqi Special Forces and their American and international allies drawn from across the world pick their way carefully through the myriad of streets and settlements that make up Mosul, one thing is……
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Islam is the third-largest faith in the United States, after Christianity and Judaism. It is followed by 0.6% of the population. More: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&tag=mg03-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=f363941b2cdb9c58466af910af44d42c&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=books&keywords=islam
American Muslims come from various backgrounds, and are one of the most racially diverse religious groups in the United States according to a 2009 Gallup poll. Native-born American Muslims are mainly African Americans who make up about a quarter of the total Muslim population. Many of these have converted to Islam during the last seventy years. Conversion to Islam in large urban areas has also contributed to its growth over the years.
While an estimated 20–30 percent of the slaves brought to colonial America from Africa arrived as Muslims, Islam was stringently suppressed on plantations. Prior to the late 19th century, most documented non-enslaved Muslims in North America were merchants, travelers, and sailors.
From the 1880s to 1914, several thousand Muslims immigrated to the United States from the former territories of the Ottoman Empire and the former Mughal Empire. The Muslim population of the U.S. increased dramatically in the 20th century, with much of the growth driven by a comparatively high birth rate and immigrant communities of mainly Arab and South Asian descent. About 72% of American Muslims are immigrants or “second generation”.
In 2005, more people from Islamic countries became legal permanent United States residents — nearly 96,000 — than in any year in the previous two decades. In 2009, more than 115,000 Muslims became legal residents of the United States.
One of the largest Islamic organizations is the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) which says that 27% of mosques in U.S. are associated with it. ISNA is an association of immigrant Muslim organizations and individuals that provides a common platform for presenting Islam. It is composed mostly of immigrants. Its membership may have recently exceeded ASM, as many independent mosques throughout the United States are choosing to affiliate with it. ISNA’s annual convention is the largest gathering of Muslims in the United States.
The second largest is the community under the leadership of W.Deen Mohammed or the American Society of Muslims with 19% of mosques, mostly African-Americans having an affiliation with it. It was the successor organization to the Nation of Islam, once better-known as the Black Muslims. The association recognizes the leadership of Warith Deen Mohammed. This group evolved from the Black separatist Nation of Islam (1930–1975). The majority of its members are African Americans. This has been a 23-year process of religious reorientation and organizational decentralization, in the course of which the group was known by other names, such as the American Muslim Mission, W.Deen Mohammed guided its members to the practice of mainstream Islam such as salat or fasting, and teaching the basic creed of Islam the shahadah.
The third largest group is the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA). ICNA describes itself as a non-ethnic, open to all, independent, North America-wide, grass-roots organization. It is composed mostly of immigrants and the children of immigrants. It is growing as various independent mosques throughout the United States join and also may be larger than ASM at the present moment. Its youth division is Young Muslims. Why Islam? is a community outreach project of ICNA; it seeks to provide accurate information about Islam while debunking popular stereotypes and common misconceptions through various services and outreach activities.
The Islamic Supreme Council of America (ISCA) is a small organization representing Sufi teachings, which, according to adherents, is the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. The ISCA’s stated aims include providing practical solutions for American Muslims, based on the traditional Islamic legal rulings of an international advisory board, many of whom are recognized as the highest ranking Islamic scholars in the world. ISCA strives to integrate traditional scholarship in resolving contemporary issues affecting the maintenance of Islamic beliefs in a modern, secular society. It has been linked to neoconservative thought.
The Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA) is a leading Muslim organization in the United States. According to its website, among the goals of IANA is to “unify and coordinate the efforts of the different dawah oriented organizations in North America and guide or direct the Muslims of this land to adhere to the proper Islamic methodology.” In order to achieve its goals, IANA uses a number of means and methods including conventions, general meetings, dawah-oriented institutions and academies, etc.
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Posted on December 17th, 2016
Trump meets with Obama’s homeland security secretary | Homeland Security Degrees
Trump meets with Obama’s homeland security secretary | Homeland Security Degrees
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(CNN)While advisers to Donald Trump and President Barack Obama spar over Russia, the President-elect met with the outgoing homeland security chief Friday. The sit-down with Secretary Jeh Johnson was announced Friday morning by Trump’s spokesman Jason ……
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According to CBS News on Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump will nominate retired Marine General John Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security. CBS added, citing multiple sources that Kelly, who is the former head of the U.S. Southern Command, has accepted the offer. He would be the third general the president-elect has chosen for a high-level position in his administration. Before leaving his post as the head U.S. Southern Command until earlier this year, Kelly commanded American forces numerous times in Iraq, and spent a year as the top Marine in that country.
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Posted on December 16th, 2016
Hassan assigned to Homeland Security, Health committees | Homeland Security Degrees
Hassan assigned to Homeland Security, Health committees | Homeland Security Degrees
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U.S. Sen.-elect Maggie Hassan, D-NH, said Thursday her committee assignments include Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees. Additional Senate committee assignments will be announced soon and ……
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Posted on December 16th, 2016
Four Years After Newtown School Shootings, Sandy Hook Promise Looks to Future | Homeland Security Degrees
Four Years After Newtown School Shootings, Sandy Hook Promise Looks to Future | Homeland Security Degrees
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US President Barack Obama has marked the anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shootings by urging Americans to push for tighter gun control.
He said the United States had to “do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on guns so easily”.
Twenty children and six school workers were killed at the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, a year ago.
On Friday, two students were shot and wounded by another student at a school in Colorado.
The gunman later died, apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
‘Troubled minds’
Mr Obama and his wife Michelle observed a moment of silence at the White House and lit candles in memory of those who died.
In his weekly radio address, Mr Obama urged Americans to do more to restrict gun ownership and improve mental healthcare – or, as he put it, “heal troubled minds”.
“We have to do everything we can to protect our children from harm and make them feel loved, and valued, and cared for,” he said.
President Obama called for stricter gun laws following the tragedy, but Congress has rejected every one.
In the town itself, some of the bereaved held small ceremonies but the media were asked to stay away.
The community needs time to be alone and to reflect on our past year in personal ways, without a camera or a microphone,” First Selectman Pat Llodra told a news conference this week.
The bells at St Rose of Lima church in Newtown rang 26 times – once for each of gunman Adam Lanza’s victims at the school.
He was 20 years old when he killed his mother in their Newtown home and drove to Sandy Hook to carry out the massacre. He killed himself as police arrived.
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Posted on December 15th, 2016
Chemical and Explosives Detectors – Autonomous Vehicles Compatible Kit | Homeland Security Degrees
Chemical and Explosives Detectors – Autonomous Vehicles Compatible Kit | Homeland Security Degrees
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Some of the most dangerous threats encountered by the military, law enforcement, first res…
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Posted on December 15th, 2016