A Hungarian citizen pleaded guilty today to intentionally causing damage by transmitting a malicious code to Marriott International Corporation computers and to threatening to reveal confidential information obtained from the company’s computers if Marriott did not offer him a job.
With all of the crazy 2011 security breaches, exploits and notorious hacks, what can we expect for 2012?
With the approach of the holiday shopping season and Cyber Monday, a new survey released this week demonstrates the importance of mobile online safety as more businesses and consumers are taking part in digital shopping via smartphones.
With SAFE, Cape May County has simplified the management of their physical access process by automating key manual processes regarding access credential issuance, access privilege assignment and visitor identity management across their physical access control systems.
Our lagging economy has spurred a dramatic increase in burglaries and home invasions across the country, with agencies reporting an increase in 2010 after falling for a number of years.
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District has partnered with IDentiphoto for student identification badges, visitor management and a student information/discipline management system.
- By Cindy Horbrook
- Nov 21, 2011
Although the calendar says November, it’s beginning to feel like Groundhog Day for a lot of chemical manufacturers across the country that are again waiting on Washington to permanently reauthorize the nation’s chemical security rules.
A McDonald’s 24-hour drive-thru restaurant in Dublin, Ireland, has deployed IQinVision HD megapixel cameras to improve safety and operations.
The Justice Department has opened a civil investigation into allegations of excessive use of deadly force by members of the city of Miami Police Department.
A first-of-its-kind glide vehicle, designed to fly within the earth’s atmosphere at hypersonic speed and long range, was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii to the Reagan Test Site, U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll.
HID Global, a source for secure identity solutions, and Sony Corporation recently introduced a jointly developed contactless smart card reader platform that embeds secure access control capabilities and Near Field Communication (NFC) functionality into laptops and other mobile devices.
Investigators on the multi-agency San Diego Tunnel Task Force continued sifting through evidence Wednesday at a warehouse in Otay Mesa's industrial park housing the U.S. entrance to a sophisticated passageway that runs beneath the border to a warehouse more than 400 yards away in Tijuana, Mexico.
Intended to increase tax compliance by government contractors, this unprecedented withholding requirement would have dramatically increased administrative costs and information reporting for vendors and their agency customers.
Approximately 92 percent of Americans believe that a safe and secure Internet is crucial to our nation's economic security and 81 percent of Americans want to learn more about being safe and secure online, but there still exists a visible disconnect between Americans' perceptions of their online safety practices versus the reality of their actual safety practices.
The Transportation Security Administration announced eight airports which are set to receive recently purchased millimeter wave Advanced Imaging Technology units.
When a wounded U.S. military veteran passes through Newark Liberty International Airport, there is a good chance that Lead Transportation Security Officer Randal Habick of Brick, N.J., is alongside, serving as a personal guide through the airport.
A Naval Research Laboratory instrument designed to study the Earth's thermosphere is part of a future science mission that has been selected by NASA for evaluation for flight.
Pennsylvanians who suffered losses because of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee have been approved for more than a quarter billion dollars in disaster relief.
Instead of current authentication systems that force humans to adapt to computers, consider computers that adapt to the humans that built them in the first place.
DERMALOG correctly identifies 129 million fingerprints in one second.
Critical infrastructure providers come from industries that are of such importance that if their cyber networks were successfully attacked and disabled, it would result in an actual threat to national security.
One of the most encouraging findings from Memoori’s 3rd annual report “The Physical Security Business in 2011” is that this industry has outperformed most peers and, despite a troubled economic climate, has increased revenues and profitability while merger and acquisitions have surged by more than double in the last two years to $9.847 billion.
In times of crisis on a college or university campus, the ability to quickly communicate safety information to students, faculty and visitors is critically important.
Telecom office building and data center employed advanced fire protection with expandable, cost-conscious networking capabilities.
- By Beth Welch
- Nov 14, 2011
The world's first prototype of a hand-held fingerprint drug testing device has been created by UK technology company Intelligent Fingerprinting.
When a soldier in good mental health becomes homicidal or a government employee abuses access privileges to share classified information, we often wonder why no one saw it coming.
IBM is unveiling a new service to help businesses secure the exploding number of mobile devices with access to corporate data.
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers helped the Federal Bureau of Investigation and NASA Office of Inspector General identify seven foreign nationals arrested for a massive, sophisticated Internet fraud that infected more than 400 million computers in 100-plus countries and scammed $14 million.
Approximately 35 percent know about security policies, but don't think it matters and 25 percent don't worry about security, instead relying on system admins to keep company PCs safe.