…GILMA EXPECTED TO MAINTAIN HURRICANE STRENGTH WHILE IT NEARS THE CENTRAL PACIFIC BASIN…
As of 5:00 PM HST Sun Aug 25
the center of Gilma was located near 18.1, -135.1
with movement W at 9 mph.
The minimum central pressure was 972 mb
with maximum sustained winds of about 105 mph.
Month: August 2024
Hurricane Hone Public Advisory
…HONE WEAKENING BUT STILL A HURRICANE AS IT MOVES AWAY FROM THE BIG ISLAND…
As of 5:00 PM HST Sun Aug 25
the center of Hone was located near 19.1, -158.6
with movement W at 13 mph.
The minimum central pressure was 994 mb
with maximum sustained winds of about 75 mph.
Hurricane Hone Wind Speed Probabilities
Issued at 0300 UTC MON AUG 26 2024
Hurricane Hone Forecast Advisory
Issued at 0300 UTC MON AUG 26 2024
CBP’s Migrant App Faces Tech Glitches, Security Flaws: Report
CBP’s Migrant App Faces Tech Glitches, Security Flaws: Report
Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times,
The official app which allows illegal immigrants to schedule appointments with the agency at U.S. ports of entry is plagued with technical issues and security vulnerabilities, according to a new report by the Homeland Security watchdog.
The report into the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) phone appointment app known as CBP One was published on Aug. 19 and sent to Congress.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) report examined whether or not CBP adequately planned and implemented the phone app to process migrants who arrive at the southwest border seeking entry into the United States.
The OIG found that while CBP initially addressed weaknesses in the app after its implementation, the agency failed to formally assess and mitigate the “technological risks involved with expanding the application” to allow immigrants to schedule appointments to present themselves for processing at the Southwest Border.”
“We found that CBP did not initially consider critical factors such as the design of the CBP One Genuine Presence functionality, adequacy of supporting application infrastructure, sufficiency of language translations, and equity of appointment distribution,” the report states.
“As a result, noncitizens initially using the new feature experienced application crashes, received frequent error messages, faced language barriers, and may not have always had an equal opportunity to secure an appointment,” it continues.
CBP’s One phone app was created in 2020 to serve as a single portal for various CBP services.
However, it was expanded in January 2023 under President Joe Biden’s administration to allow immigrants seeking to enter the United States to submit information and schedule appointments before arriving at one of eight points of entry along the southwest border.
The expansion was part of the administration’s efforts to discourage illegal border crossings by providing legal pathways.
According to a July press release from CBP, the app has “increased CBP’s capacity to process immigrants more efficiently and orderly while cutting out unscrupulous smugglers who endanger and profit from vulnerable migrants.”
In July alone, the federal agency processed over 38,000 individuals with appointments at ports of entry through the app.
Since the app’s appointment-scheduling function was introduced in January 2023 through the end of July 2024, more than 765,000 individuals have “successfully scheduled appointments to present at ports of entry instead of risking their lives in the hands of smugglers,” CBP said.
Security Vulnerabilities, Identical Address Claims
However, the OIG said it found CBP may also be failing to use information submitted to the app by immigrants before they arrive at the border to improve pre-arrival vetting procedures.
While the agency uses biographic and biometric information submitted into the app in advance to determine whether arriving migrants have “derogatory records,” it “does not leverage the information to identify suspicious trends as part of its pre-arrival vetting procedures,” according to the report.
Elsewhere, the OIG said it had identified potentially unrelated immigrants who repeatedly claimed identical intended U.S. residences.
“CBP currently does not have a mechanism to routinely analyze CBP One data submitted across the eligible POEs [points of entry] for trends, which may be useful intelligence to help guide front-line CBP officers when interviewing noncitizens during appointment processing,” the report said.
Meanwhile, the OIG report found security vulnerabilities within the application and its supporting infrastructure operating systems.
“Without a process to ensure all corrective security patches are timely implemented and assets are properly configured, data on the app may be susceptible to exploitation or cyber-attacks,” the report found.
“This process is especially important as CBP continues to update the application,” it added.
In concluding its report, the OIG recommended that CBP develop and implement a formalized risk assessment process when developing, expanding, or modifying mobile applications.
It also recommended that it introduce a mechanism to analyze the app’s advanced information for trends and patterns of fraudulent behaviors by users and communicate those results to the eight ports of entry that process appointments booked through the app.
The OIG further recommended that CBP introduce a mechanism to routinely assess CBP applications and supporting infrastructure operating systems for vulnerabilities and ensure corrective actions are undertaken in a timely manner.
CBP concurred with all three recommendations and promised to take corrective actions, according to the report.
The Epoch Times has contacted CBP for comment.
Tyler Durden
Sun, 08/25/2024 – 22:10
Report: Trump Campaign to Ramp Up Strategy Ahead of Election
The Trump campaign is reportedly planning to ramp up its strategy in the 2024 presidential election and increase the former president’s events and debate skills, according to several sources.
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SpaceX to Rescue Astronauts Stranded in Space on Boeing Starliner
Elon Musk’s SpaceX will rescue two astronauts who have been stranded in space since June after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft encountered problems.
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When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities Will Explode In Violence
by Matt Bracken, Matthew’s Substack: (I wrote this back in 2012. It was originally published at the old Western Rifle Shooters Association website, and since then it’s been reposted dozens of times on other websites. It’s also included in “The Bracken Collection: Essays and Short Fiction 2010 to 2019″ which is available at Amazon, or you can […]
Hurricane Hone Public Advisory
…HONE MOVING AWAY FROM THE BIG ISLAND…
As of 2:00 PM HST Sun Aug 25
the center of Hone was located near 18.9, -157.9
with movement WNW at 14 mph.
The minimum central pressure was 994 mb
with maximum sustained winds of about 80 mph.
RFK Jr. Sister Kerry Kennedy: My Brother Endorsing Trump Is Setting ‘Fire to My Father’s Memory’
Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of late Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that her brother suspending his independent presidential bid and endorsing former President Donald Trump is like setting “fire to my father’s memory.”
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