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SP's MAI August 16-31, 2011 - Internal Security Updates

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / REPORT
  Security situation in Indian cities bleak: G.K. Pillai, former Home Secretary

  Security in Indian cities is bleak. And the future is even bleaker as the situation will only deteriorate in years to come, said G.K. PIllai

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  Making runways safer

  Airplanes undergo significant stresses during takeoff and landing, and parts often become detached, putting subsequent runway users at risk.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Convicted for hurling grenade at Bush

  On May 10, 2005, while President George W. Bush was delivering a speech in Tbilsi, Georgia, a live Soviet-made RGD-5 hand grenade was thrown...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Priest’s escape from Tower of London

  John Gerard was a 16th century Jesuit priest who is remembered as the only person to ever escape from the notorious Tower of London.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  US cash stolen in Iraq War?

  US auditors are now confirming that the $6.6 billion in cash the US lost in the wake of the invasion of Iraq may have been stolen.

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  Safe and Secure Indian Cities: FICCI Ernst Young Report

  There are five building blocks to secure a city’s safety – governance, planning, technology, resources and citizen awareness.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  999 incidents of Naxal violence this year

  During the current year (up to July 26), India witnessed 999 incidents of Naxal violence in which there were 333 deaths (241 civilians and 92 security forces).

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Special cell to deal with terror financing

  The Government of India has constituted a separate cell for combating of funding of terrorists (CFT Cell) in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

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  European system for tracking terrorist financing

  Responding to the call from the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, the Commission adopted a communication outlining the options for establishing a European terrorist finance tracking system (TFTS).

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  Aviation security measures ‘confusing’: RUSI

  A report of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has underlined the importance of harmonised and rigorously enforced baseline standards on international aviation security to be implemented by various governments.

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  DRS Consolidated Controls to supply controls to nuclear industry

  DRS Defense Solutions announced that its business unit, DRS Consolidated Controls, Inc. (DRS-CCI) has been recertified as a supplier of safety-related instrumentation and controls equipment to nuclear power plants.

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  Microsoft security research awards worth $2,50,000

  Microsoft Corporation’s Trustworthy Computing Group has announced the BlueHat Prize competition to reward security researchers with more than $2,50,000 in cash and prizes for developing innovative, new computer security protection technology.

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  McAfee releases online banking safety guide

  Acting on recent data that reveals many consumers still aren’t protected by even basic anti-virus software when banking online, McAfee has released an educational guide for banking safely on computers, tablets or mobile devices.

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  ENISA maps good practice in Europe

  The European Union Agency ENISA has launched online an updated edition of its “Country Reports” on network and information security (NIS) in the member states and other European countries.

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  South Korea to start cyber defence programme

  The South Korean military and Korea University have signed an agreement to set up a cyber defence programme aimed specifically at training students in cyber warfare to combat virtual threats from North Korea.

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  Raytheon to support insider threat research programme

  The company said that subscriber information had been Raytheon Company has been selected to support an insider threat research programme led by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Palestinians infiltrate air force base

  In 2008, a serious security breach occurred at the Nevatim Air Force Base, when four Palestinians succeeded in entering the base without anyone noticing.