Category: Security

The United States is sending one of the Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFAB) to Colombia to teach, advise, and assist Colombian counternarcotics forces as the country once again has seen a rise in the cultivation of illegal narcotics.  What makes this deployment so noteworthy is that the SFABs will be working for the first time […]

We’ve been drawing more attention to digital security and privacy as of late, largely due to our upcoming digital security guide, which will become available in about a week. The inspiration for the guide was born from the need for a basic repository of easy-to-implement digital security hygiene practices that end-users (all of us with […]

Several interconnected conflicts are raging in several countries in the Sahel region of Africa. And yet for much of the world, this hasn’t registered as either noteworthy or very important. But it is, and not just to the countries involved. Just in 2019 alone, over 4,000 people were killed in terror attacks in the Sahel.  […]

The Sahel remains a hot spot, particularly in Mali where violence continues unabated. Malian troops and jihadist militants have been clashing as militant attacks on civilians and small towns persist.  In a recent raid, Malian troops killed about 30 militants. Mali’s armed forces posted on Twitter that they had killed “about 30 terrorists” near the […]

Staff Sgt. Alexa Ammerman 60th Security Forces Squadron military working dog handler, carries the guidon on the final lap of the 24-hour ruck march at the Duck Pond on Travis Air Force Base, Calif. Members of the 60th Security Forces Squadron and the 821st Contingency Response Group ran behind her to conclude the memorial run […]

Call me paranoid privacy conscious, but I don’t relish the thought of being present in too many government databases. This is especially so given the exorbitant levels of nation-state cyber activity and historically poor U.S. government data protection track records (I am looking at you, OPM). Alas, extensive public services ensure that I am forever […]

Recent news coming from air travel security experts involves convenient USB charging stations spread around airports. While your first thought might be that you never use the USB charging station because a crowd of people always beats you to it, there’s a legitimate security risk associated with using them: “juice jacking.” Truthfully, this type of […]

Each time the latest data breach news is made public, there’s generally widespread disdain toward the company responsible for not doing more to protect affected data. What people often overlook is they shouldn’t have trusted that company with their information in the first place. You know, details on social media like where you work, what […]

A recent release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, the Treasury Department, and the Department of State details the scope of the North Korean hacking threat for public consumption. The advisory, released as a comprehensive resource on all things DPRK cyber, highlights the threats posed by malicious cyber activities and offers […]

There is a saying in emergency management that all disasters are local. While the saying is pithy, it embodies the approach used, by emergency management officials in the United States, to manage emergencies and disasters. When an incident takes place, individuals, communities, and local governments respond to the event. When these local entities become overwhelmed, […]

Marijuana causes man’s erection to last as long as 12 hours I’m put soundly in mind of TV advertisements for Viagra and Cialis and the sort. At the end of the commercial, a couple of medical caveats were injected, one admonishing those with hypertension to not use the drug, and the other one to the […]

The Pentagon’s decision to replace elements of an infantry brigade of the 101st Airborne with elements of the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) has long been in the works.  This will accomplish two tasks: Firstly, it will provide better continuity in training missions with a unit designed to train foreign troops, thereby freeing up […]