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Passwords are past their sell-by-date
Stephen Howes, CEO of GrIDsure, has commented on the latest research from Richard Boyd at the Georgia Tech Research Institute highlighting the weaknesses of passwords: “The report from the Georgia Tech Research Institute correctly confirms that passwords are past their sell-by-date. However, I find it bewildering that the Institute is recommend......
Misconfigured networks are the easiest IT resource hackers exploit
Tufin Technologies's annual Hacking Habits survey aims to better understand how trends in the hacking community impact corporate security teams. Responses from security professionals attending the DEF CON18 conference in Las Vegas last month revealed that 73% came across a misconfigured network more than three quarters of the time – which, accordi......
The Return of Ransomware and Do-it-Yourself Botnets
According to Fortinet's August 2010 Threat Landscape report, ransomware variant TotalSecurity has made its biggest comeback since March. Ransomware is malware that locks out applications and data from a user’s PC and then demands ransom for restored access, and TotalSecurity loader (W32/FakeAlert.LU) was the no. 1 malware detected this month by For......
Hikvision mobile surveillance solution deployed on 3,600 buses in Ningbo, China
The Ningbo City Bus mobile surveillance project, one of the largest transportation installations in China, covers more than 3,600 buses belonging to 14 transportation companies in Ningbo city. The Ningbo Transportation Department faced many of the common problems with security on their buses. They needed to protect their assets and provide for ......
Hikvision cameras keep watch on World Expo 2010 in Shanghai
Expo 2010 Shanghai China is a $4bn festival set to receive 100 million visitors by October. Visitors will come from 190 countries to an exhibition site of 3.2 square miles that is twice the size of the country of Monaco and features buildings shaped like rabbits alongside violin-playing robots. Thousands of HD fixed and PTZ cameras from Hikvisio......
Data protection laws are too relaxed and require revision
In April this year, the ICO was empowered to impose fines of up to £500,000 on companies found to have breached the data protection principles, while the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) issued a Call for Evidence to learn whether the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and the Data Protection Act 1998 is working and how it is impacting on individ......
Northshore Utility District deploys IndigoVision's IP Video surveillance system to prevent terrorism and improve public and staff safety
Northshore Utility District is a special purpose water and sewer utility located at the Northeast end of Lake Washington in King County, WA. The District encompasses more than 44 square km and serves over 65,000 people. With 420 km of sewer pipe, 15 lift stations, 415 km of water main, 3 water pumping stations and eight water storage facilities wit......
The challenge of protecting multiple and increasingly disparate end user environments
Most organisations have many different end user environments, often across physical locations and comprising individuals who use a wide-range of technologies to handle information. These disparate end user environments are subject to factors such as diverse cultures and different operating conditions that make managing information security extremel......
The USA continues to be the number one spam polluter whle Europe becomes the most prolific continent for spamming
Spam emails make up 97% of all emails received by business email servers, both putting a strain on network resources and wasting a huge amount of time to lost productivity. Used largely as a method for selling counterfeit or illicit goods, virtually all spam comes from malware infected computers (known as bots or zombies) that are controlled by 'b......
New Mobile CCTV service for Northern Ireland
Believed to be the first in the Northern Ireland private security industry, Select Management and Security Ltd have rolled out a new Mobile CCTV service within Northern Ireland. The system consists of a six metre mast with high resolution long range CCTV camera system mounted on the roof. The system is linked to a high quality DVR in the rear of th......
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