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CNN’s Brian Todd takes a look at Alina Kabaeva, the reputed girlfriend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as the EU has placed her on a sanctions list, two European diplomatic sources tell CNN.  

Mason’s CINA Center is seeking applications to develop a candidate pool for DHS internships covering an 8-10 week period during the summer of 2022. As a DHS Center of Excellence, CINA’s mission focuses on four primary areas: criminal network analysis; dynamic patterns of criminal activity; forensics; and criminal investigative processes. Areas of interest relative to CINA (Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis) include: –… Read More about CINA – DHS Internship Opportunity

Correct handling and interpretation of digital evidence is fundamental to the way crimes are investigated, prosecuted, and presented in court. Developments in technology happen rapidly, and professionals who rely on digital evidence need to be kept informed. The fast-paced growth in digital technologies and evolving laws governing search and seizure and privacy mean that DHS must develop… Read More about Best Practices in Handling Digital Evidence

Criminals and criminal organizations have long sought to launder their illicit financial gains in an effort to avoid detection and prosecution, and to make those funds available for legitimate uses. Cryptocurrency transfers have less transparency than fiat currency transfers, and as such have provided a new vehicle for such activity, whether the illicit funds are… Read More about Is there money laundering in crypto currency markets?

An abundance of data confirms a national opioid epidemic, but much of this data is analyzed and reported in retrospect. This project addresses that limitation for one aspect of the problem, specifically where are opioid hotspots currently emerging, and where are they likely to emerge in the future? The project developed an extensible Criminal Predictive… Read More about An Extensible Criminal Predictive Analytic Platform (CPAP) for Opioid Abuse Detection and Prediction

For the last two years, a team of Liberty University School of Business faculty and students, led by Dr. Daniel O’Malley, residential chair for Computer Science, has utilized a grant from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct research and develop a data-collection application in an effort to strengthen the United States’ fight against… Read More about Research in fight against opioid epidemic