AlertsUSA Homeland Security Weekly Update

In this week’s update, we examine the FBI and U.S. Coast Guard boardings of two foreign-flagged energy tankers bound for Texas after their networks showed signs of compromise by foreign hackers. We cover what investigators have and have not confirmed, and why a digital intrusion at sea is now a port-security and energy-security problem. We also review the State Department’s upda...

In this week’s update, we examine Al-Qaeda’s new 52-minute commemorative video marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, including the appearance of a man the group identifies as Hamza bin Laden and the unresolved question of whether he is still alive. We cover the video’s propaganda formula, plus public warnings from former intelligence and military figures abou...

AlertsUSA Homeland Security Weekly Update - Aug 29, 2026 In this week’s update, we look at President Trump’s national emergency declaration to protect the high-voltage electric grid—the bulk-power system that feeds military bases, hospitals, water systems, communications, and the financial system. We cover what the new Executive Order actually does, including limits on foreign-...

In this week’s update, we look at the FBI’s disruption of an ISIS-inspired bomb plot by a 35-year-old Albany woman targeting the New York State Capitol. We also cover her rapid online radicalization and formal pledge of allegiance to ISIS, the persistent threat from ISIS ideology and propaganda despite the loss of territorial control, ISIS-Khorasan’s continued operation of train...