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The Telegraph
The City of London police plans to launch a team of "cyber detectives," hired straight out of U.K. universities, amid growing fears around cyber attacks on the Square Mile. The police force, which has been operating in London's financial district since 1839, is in the process of designing a programme to recruit computer science graduates who can help in the fight against hacking crimes.
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Business Insider
Growing tensions with Russia have led NATO and its members to make a number of changes to their military posture on the ground in Europe, and now the U.S. is reactivating its Second Fleet to oversee the northern Atlantic Ocean and U.S. East Coast. The Second Fleet was deactivated in September 2011 after 65 years of service as part of a cost-saving and organizational-restructuring effort; many of its personnel and responsibilities were folded into U.S. Fleet Forces Command.
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NMLEA
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NMLEA
In case you missed it, you can view a recording of the webinar that we conducted with stakeholders from around the country. You can go to our Webinars and Podcast page at www.nmlea.org/webinars-and-podcasts.
Topics discussed in the webinar include:
What we know about the current environment
What could happen, that no one is telling you
What the federal government will want us to focus on
What factors contribute to successful applications
What makes good grant applications - and what makes bad ones
Why some applications continue to fail
Why you need to get that quote today
What's so important about the Post Award process
How do you manage the award, after the fact
Other Webinars and Podcasts available online at www.nmlea.org/webinars-and-podcasts:
No Safe Harbors: Charting a Smarter Course of Maritime Stakeholders through Cyber Risk Management
How Changes in Procurement and Products are Affecting Maritime Public Safety Agencies
Podcast 4/18: Innovation in Healthcare for Academy Members — and Every American
Podcast 3/18: Maritime Advanced Firearms Training — What Makes It Different?
GCN
Instead of making phone calls to share information with other ports, officials at most of Florida's 15 seaports will soon be able to communicate with one another via a shared platform that also gives them a common operating picture. The Florida Seaport Transportation and Economic Development Council awarded a $500,000 contract to ARES Security to provide CommandBridge, a platform that will enable the ports to share information with one another and with state and local government agencies.
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Marine Electronics & Communication
Shipowners operating fleets of vessels worldwide will be able to secure their communication networks with a new generation of encryption keys and distribution technology being developed by satellite operators. The European Space Agency and an SES-led consortium are developing a system that uses lasers with encryption for intrusion-resistant data exchange communications in space.
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The Boston Globe
The sky's not the limit for drones — why not use them deep beneath the surface of the ocean? Their ability to move along the sea floor allows drones to explore the watery depths in ways and places that are impossible for human divers. Call it blue tech, ocean IT, or the underwater Internet of Things, this final frontier is being explored for commercial and military applications using unmanned underwater vehicles.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The water temperature in the Allegheny River flowing green and fast past Aspinwall Riverfront Park was somewhere between 45 degrees and "too cold to be in the water" on a recent Friday morning. As a result, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District canceled its scheduled river rescue demonstration and instead focused its second annual “Water Safety Summit” on how a coalition of government, commercial and recreational entities are working to improve waterway safety.
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NJ.com
Local and federal officials celebrated the creation of the New Jersey Regional Fire Boat Task Force recently with a ceremonial blessing of the fleet on the Hudson River waterfront. The task force, a first-of-its-kind shared services agreement, was formed in September with the aim of improving safety and efficiency in the waterfront communities of Edgewater, Hoboken, Jersey City, Bayonne, Newark, Kearny, Carteret, Elizabeth, Perth Amboy, and Secaucus.
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Homeland Security Today
A 17-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of plotting a mass shooting at the Stonebriar Centre mall in Frisco, Texas. Matin Azizi-Yarand faces charges of making a terroristic threat and criminal solicitation of capital murder of a Texas peace officer, and if convicted he could face life in prison. Authorities allege he was part of a group that planned to carry out the attack in mid-May.
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ABC News
Hackers infiltrated a small Massachusetts city's school computers, then swiped the data only to return it for $10,000 in bitcoin. The Leominster Public Schools were broadsided when they learned of the extortion payment to regain possession of their pilfered data and email.
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