Law enforcement officers are ‘go-to targets’ for terrorists, bulletin warns

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption:  Jesse Morton Violent homegrown extremists see U.S. law enforcement officers as targets in the face of tougher security at more fortified locations, and extremists have access to publicly-available information to help them circumvent counter-terror tactics protecting those officers, according to the National…

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Law enforcement can become go-to targets for terrorists, bulletin warns

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption:  Jesse Morton Violent homegrown extremists see U.S. law enforcement officers as targets in the face of tougher security at more fortified locations and have access to publicly-available information to help them circumvent counter-terror tactics protecting officers, according to the National Counterterrorism Center…

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Are hackers the new terrorists?

Is the threat of a cyberattack at the magnitude of 9/11 on the horizon? Well, the members of Congress think so. Lawmakers continuously caution the US will suffer a cataclysmic cyberattack and claim it will be America’s twenty first century […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry… View full…

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FBI: terrorists may be eyeing cyber attacks on US

Story Comments 13 ‘); $(“#content-tool-box-”+tool_name).jqm({trigger:this,overlay:20}); } }); }); WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller says terrorists may seek to train their own recruits or hire outsiders with an eye toward pursuing cyber attacks on the United States. The FBI director says terrorists have not used the Internet to launch a…

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