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CBP Rolls Out Facial Recognition At Silicon Valley Airport – California, United States
Things move fast in Silicon Valley. Companies can boom or bust overnight, innovative technologies constantly disrupt markets, and technologists are now bringing the same speed to international terminals in the region’s biggest airport. Customs and Border Protection last week announced an initiative with Mineta San José International Airport to roll out facial recognition technology for all international travelers entering and leaving the country. The airport, which sits within 20 miles of Facebook and Google headquarters, becomes the first West Coast hub to commit to full biometric entry and exit. The facility began using biometric facial recognition to process all arriving international travelers on June 25 and this fall it will implement similar technology at seven gates to scan passengers before they leave the country. “As one of the nation’s main regions of innovation, Silicon Valley is at the forefront of transforming the travel experience through biometrics,” said CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan in a statement.
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DHS Holds Election Security Exercise With States To Prep For Midterms – United States
With less than three months until the midterm elections, the Department of Homeland Security held a three-day exercise this week that allowed state and local officials to practice warding off an array of cyber threats, from spear-phishing campaigns to denial-of-service attacks. The drills, which featured officials from 44 states, the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, among other federal agencies, “explored potential impacts to voter confidence, voting operations, and the integrity of elections,” according to a DHS statement. The Election Assistance Commission, the federal agency charged with distributing $380 million in election-security funding to states, also took part. DHS said private vendors participated in the exercise, but did not name them. The exercise covered several scenarios, according to DHS: spear phishing against election officials; social media manipulation related to political candidates; “disruption” of voter registration IT systems; denial-of-service attacks and “web defacements” affecting board of election websites and web applications; “the exploitation of state and county board of election networks;”’ and “malware infections impacting electronic voting machines and election management system software.”
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US, Mexico Announce New Strategies To Fight Drug Cartels – Mexico and The United States
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials unveiled some additional strategies in combating Mexican drug cartels Wednesday in Chicago alongside members of the Mexican government, military and federal police, who said one priority was to capture the leader of the increasingly powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel. A joint news conference with the officials side by side was a display of bilateral cooperation amid ongoing tensions over President Donald Trump’s trade and immigration policies, including over his vow to build a wall along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border. The new plans include putting greater emphasis on attacking cartels’ financial infrastructure and calling for a new enforcement group based in Chicago that will concentrate on international investigations of cartels. But they don’t include major departures from how both countries have gone after cartels for years.
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