NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- With four months of 2010 left, much of Tennessee has already seen a year's worth of rain, including the devastation of the first weekend in May. What more proof is needed to persuade all residents to think seriously about protecting their homes and valuables with flood insurance?
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International Passenger Jets Still Carry Unscreened CargoFrom the New York Times – To prevent attacks like the Lockerbie bombing, caused by a suitcase containing a bomb loaded onto a plane without the passenger who checked it also on being on board, airlines are supposed to remove the bags of any passengers who check luggage onto flights they do not board.In an [...] This story comes to us via Homeland
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Securing the global supply chain is daunting task
The global supply chain consists of 140 million shipping containers; the United States has 12,000 miles of coastline, making it hard to funnel cargo through a limited number of entrances; currently, security officials inspect only 6 percent of all cargo coming into the United States; one security experts says: "If you double that, we still have a long way to go-- If you triple that, we still have a long way to go".
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New Florida museum is glass-covered hurricane-proof fortress
Infrastructure
The new Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg is designed to withstand category 5 hurricanes; the roof is 12-inch thick solid concrete; the walls are even thicker, at eighteen inches; the glass, which makes up big sections of the outside of the museum, can hold up to a category 3 hurricane; if that glass breaks, letting rain, wind, and debris into the facility, the art will still be safe: storm doors will shield the galleries on the third floor, and the vault, which is on the second floor (all of the art is placed on the second and third floors, above the 30-foot storm surge of a category 5 storm)
The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg will soon have a new home which is part tourist attraction and part Fort Knox. Glass covers a lot of the new building, but it is hurricane proof. How does that work? Salvador Dali’s art is celebrated for its surrealism, but the threat of its destruction by a hurricane is as real as it gets. “The building is a fortress,” architect Yann Weymouth proudly declared, holding his hard hat under his arm as construction workers hammered and drilled in the next room.
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Pentagon describes 2008 attack as a "network administrator's worst fear"
Cybersecurity
The Pentagon admits that a 2008 cyber attack on the Pentagon's computers was a "network administrator's worst fear"; a USB device was
plugged into a military laptop located on an undisclosed base in the Middle East, causing a malicious code to link highly sensitive machines to networks controlled by an unnamed foreign intelligence agency
The Pentagon has described what it calls the “most significant breach of US military computers ever,” in which a flash drive in 2008 was used to infect large numbers of computers, including those used by the Central Command overseeing combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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