Homeland Security Seeks the "Black Hats"

Wow, Homeland Security seems to have teamed up with Jeff Moss founder of the DefCon and Black Hat Security Conferences, as he was appointed to the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) on Friday.

According to, InformationWeek, "The HSAC is composed of individuals with extensive security and policy experience from state and local government, the private sector, and academia".

Wow, Homeland Security is going for the best in the country it appears, wow for DefCon and Black Hat for their perseverance

DHS Chief Tries Reassuring Congress

Department of Homeland Security Chief, Scott Charbo, reassure the U.S. Congress that hackers have infiltrated the Nations US-VISIT which is the computer system handling all the information of people entering the United States, according to an article by PrivacyDigest. The information is vital to track those entering the country plus it also contains information on watchlists and Visa programs. Although he maintains the Nation's US-VISIT computer system is stealthy and has not been breached a computer worm/malware was found in the system.

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