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Why large format printing has a future
Even as disaster response teams begins to embrace smaller format devices that make operations more ...
Govt will not fight cyber security war alone
The Internet has transformed the way many advanced societies work, live and play. It has ...
Preview IFSEC 2009
IFSEC, the world’s largest annual security event, returns in 2009 to the NEC Birmingham ...
Earthquakes in Asia: Whole Lotta Shakin’
With the world entering a new cycle of vicious earthquakes, businesses in Asia need to ...
Queensland Police rolls out building access ID cards
Queensland Police Service is the first police force in Australia to issue employees with new electronic ID cards which integrate access to the premise and network resources, the Police Media and Public Affairs Branch told Asian Security Review.
World’s first CCTV Regulator appointed
The world’s first CCTV regulator is coming to Singapore ...
Virtual reality technology saves lives
An accident in a nuclear or petro-chemical plant can result ...
8 February 2010 | News
Social media security risks exposed
Twitterers with Facebook pages and LinkedIn accounts beware. The volume of spam and malware sent via social networking sites increased by 70 per cent last year, with MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter all falling victim to rising levels of malicious activity in 2009. Of them all, Facebook poses the biggest risk to security, according to a survey by cyber security firm Sophos.
8 February 2010 | News
Interpol rebuffs calls for internet police
Calls for the creation of an internet police force to tackle unprecedented levels of cyber crime have been rebuffed by the director of IT at Interpol in an interview with Asian Security Review.
17 November 2009 | Spotlight
Why large format printing has a future
Even as disaster response teams begins to embrace smaller format devices that make operations more flexible and mobile, large format printing still plays an important role in how the public sector responds to emergency situations. So says Santiago Morera, the Vice President & General Manager of Hewlett Packard’s large format printing business.
2 July 2009 | News
Michael Jackson's death triggers spam attacks
The death of pop legend Michael Jackson has triggered a swathe of attacks by internet fraudsters attempting to capture computer users’ email addresses to use for future spam campaigns.
10 June 2009 | News
Expert calls for mobile workforce infosecurity strategy
Governments need to develop strategies to bolster cyber security as their workforces become more mobile, an information security expert has urged.
8 June 2009 | News
CCTV ineffective at crime detection: researcher
End-users make bold claims about their million-dollar surveillance systems, but we need to get real about the abilities of CCTV to detect crime. So says Helene Wells, Research Officer, Crime and Misconduct Commission, Queensland, Australia.
22 May 2009 | Interview
High definition, but flexible
Relating to the new CCTV installation in Hong Kong, Yoshikazu Hirano, Sony’s Asia Pacific General Manager for Security Solutions, comments on how to make the best out of a high definition surveillance system.
21 May 2009 | Feature
Know your enemy: a profile of a hacker
Hackers - who are they, and why do they do what they do? Alice Kok is given a glimpse into the murky underworld of cyber crime by one of the world’s most prolific hackers
21 May 2009 | News
Video analytics debate rages at FutureCCTV
According to an Asian Security Review survey, one third of the region’s security professionals said they were not willing to embrace CCTV video analytics systems today. Video analytics was at the centre of a heated debate at the FutureCCTV conference in Singapore yesterday (Wednesday 21 May 2009).
19 May 2009 | News
London police chief: vendors must raise their game for Olympics
The Superintendent of London’s largest police force has laid down the gauntlet for CCTV vendors to come up with better surveillance technology ahead of the 2012 Olympics Games.
12 May 2009 | News
Swine flu has ‘pandemic potential’
A new analysis concludes that the current swine flu epidemic is likely to be comparable to 20th century pandemics.
11 May 2009 | News
Singapore’s border needs to be more secure
The recent arrest of Mas Selamat Kastari, a terrorist held under Singapore’s Internal Security Act, in Johor, Malaysia on 1 April revealed the limitation of Singapore’s border control measures.
4 May 2009 | Spotlight
Govt will not fight cyber security war alone
The Internet has transformed the way many advanced societies work, live and play. It has not only created new industries but also transformed the way traditional industries are operated. Along with the internet’s phenomenal growth and success have been a growth in computer-related crimes.
The range of criminal activity that the internet supports is vast ranging from commercial to consumer, to national security and public safety threats.
2 May 2009 | News
Adobe warns about PDF software vulnerabilities
Adobe Systems has acknowledged that all versions of its Acrobat and Adobe Reader, creators and readers of the popular PDF document format, contain two critical vulnerabilities.
29 April 2009 | News
Swine flu panic exploited by spammers
Spammers are exploiting the panic caused by the swine flu virus to install malicious code on unsuspecting victims’ computers, flood email inboxes with spam and lure people into clicking links that collect their email addresses.
29 April 2009 | News
Thermal scanners deployed as swine flu spreads east
Governments across Asia have been using thermal scanning technology in airports as a preventive measure against the threat of swine flu, which is now believed to have spread from its origin in Mexico to South Korea, Thailand, China, Australia and Hong Kong.
24 April 2009 | News
New email security solution unveiled
The offering aims at preventing lost email of a given network under its existing security infrastructure
22 April 2009 | News
Social engineering scams threaten web security: AVG
Between eight and 14 million web users in the US are exposed to social engineering scams such as hoax Facebook pages or rogue security applications that encourage surfers to download malicious software to their PCs, according to a report from security vendor AVG.
22 April 2009 | News
Security experts urged to unite to combat cyber crime
Call for the information security industry to join forces to combat the global cyber crime ecosystem
22 April 2009 | News
Climate disasters to affect 375m by 2015: Oxfam
The international aid agency fears that the sharp increase in climate-related disaster could overwhelm emergency responses
17 April 2009 | News
Data security of Singapore schools exposed
The data security of schools in Singapore came into question this week when an online community group Singapore Security Meetup Group (SSMG) went onto the web sites of various schools and came away with personal information, such as addresses and identity card and telephone numbers of staff and students.
15 April 2009 | News
Surge in cyber criminality in 2008: Symantec
Malicious activity online is continuing to grow at a frightening pace, according to a new report by internet security firm Symantec.
9 April 2009 | News
Asian govts unaware of serious data leaks: CA
Data losses are much more serious than governments in Asia are aware of an executive at Computer Associates has revealed to Asian Security Review.
24 March 2009 | Spotlight
Preview IFSEC 2009
IFSEC, the world’s largest annual security event, returns in 2009 to the NEC Birmingham from 11 – 14 May. The internationally renowned exhibition provides security installers, manufacturers, distributors, IT integrators, end-users and consultants with a platform to keep up to date with the ever-changing developments of the global security industry.
19 March 2009 | News
NEC: facial recognition technology not foolproof
Facial recognition systems have a long way to go before they are perfected, a company that manufactures the equipment has admitted.
18 March 2009 | News
Public sector data theft problem could get worse in Asia: Symantec
More than half of Americans who left their jobs in 2008 admit to stealing data from their employees – and eight per cent of them were from government agencies. The problem is at least as bad in Asia, but data theft goes unreported, according to the survey’s author, Symantec.
18 March 2009 | News
UK Police: nothing can stop bio-chemical terrorism on mass transport
There is no technology available to combat chemical and biological terrorism on mass transport systems. So said Philip Trendall, Superintendent of the British Transport Police’s Counter Terrorism Support Unit at the Global Security Asia conference yesterday (Tuesday 17 March).
12 March 2009 | News
Using same password poses major security risk: Sophos
The tendency for internet users to use the same password for different web sites poses a major security risk to public and private sector organisations, according to a survey conducted by IT security firm Sophos.
10 March 2009 | News
Google fixes online document sharing bug
Some users of Google Docs, a free web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application, discovered over the weekend that their collaborators for some shared documents had disappeared.
3 March 2009 | Feature
The BCM bubble
What does it really mean for an individual to be “certified” in business continuity?
3 March 2009 | News
Motorola ships its one millionth TETRA terminal
Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) has become the recipient of the one millionth TETRA terminal ever shipped by Motorola, when it ordered a range of TETRA devices from the company after a comprehensive interoperability test.
2 March 2009 | News
Expert: terrorism still a major threat in Asia
The threat of terrorism in Asia shows no signs of abating in the short-term, a leading expert on political violence has warned.
2 March 2009 | News
Joined-up approach for corporate security urged
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has urged companies to align more closely IT security with other corporate security functions, after conducting a study of 10 FTSE companies with the aim of discovering ‘what a 21st century security function looks like’.
26 February 2009 | Feature
Where there are sparks, there are fires
Fire has a nasty habit of raising hell in the electronics manufacturing industry. Amelia Kwok assesses the causes and the risks, and casts a critical over the fire control solutions market.
26 February 2009 | Feature
Why you need to be malware aware
The number and diversity of viruses, worms and other nasty threats to information security is growing quickly. What - if anything - can be done to stop it, asks Alice Kok.
26 February 2009 | Interview
Geography to the rescue
Jack Dangermond, founder and President of ESRI, explains how public safety agencies can leverage web-based Geographic Information Systems.
25 February 2009 | News
Trojan horse attacks Facebook
Social networking giant Facebook has been attacked by a rogue application that bombards users with bogus notification messages.
24 February 2009 | News
‘Virtual strip search’ Asia-bound
The controversial millimeter wave body-imaging technology, also known as the ‘virtual strip search’, is expected to be introduced to Asia-Pacific within a year, following extensive trialing in the United States.
10 February 2009 | Feature
ING Singapore: Fighting IT Security Risk on All Fronts
How one of the world’s most successful financial services firms reduces risk in its organization every day.
9 January 2009 | News
Attacks on critical cyber infrastructure predicted
A new report has revealed that critical infrastructure systems are likely to become prime targets for cyber criminals.
29 December 2008 | News
Asia-Pacific faces an era of "mega-disasters"
A recent research has shown that “Australia’s neighbours in the Asia-Pacific region face an era of “mega-disasters” that will affect hundreds of thousands of people as urbanisation, climate change and food shortages amplify the impact of natural catastrophes such as earthquakes and cyclones in the coming years”.
22 December 2008 | News
The year’s most dangerous malware comes from the Internet
Research has shown that in 2008, 50 per cent of the top 100 malware came from the internet which was accidentally downloaded by users surfing unknown or malicious websites.
11 December 2008 | News
US leads the world in internet attacks
The United States has overtaken China as the country hosting the most web-based malware. And American computers now relay more spam than in any other country.
24 November 2008 | News
ADB to help develop regional disaster risk insurance scheme
The Asian Development Bank is funding a project to create risk insurance schemes for the region’s to better cope with natural disasters.
21 November 2008 | Interview
Disaster management: a recipe for sustainable development
Facing social & economic implications of unforeseen shock events, governments and organisations need to work together to better prepare, respond & mitigate, writes Ray Shirkhodai, Executive Director of Pacific Disaster Centre.
13 November 2008 | Research
Cybercrime perceived as major business risk
A survey has found out that companies are taking a greater interest in protecting sensitive information and intellectual property from threats coming from the web.
7 November 2008 | Feature
Effective surveillance network
How a network of CC TV cameras can be deployed, managed and made effective in specific scenarios.
6 November 2008 | Spotlight
Earthquakes in Asia: Whole Lotta Shakin’
With the world entering a new cycle of vicious earthquakes, businesses in Asia need to be more prepared for the tremors, says Nathaniel Forbes
30 October 2008 | Research
CCTV market to grow 23 per cent by 2012
A new market report looks at the demand for surveillance cameras in the next four years
17 October 2008 | News
Call for global system to combat flu
Messages from the Pandemic Influenza Symposium recently held in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur
17 October 2008 | Feature
Communicating effectively during an emergency with intelligent handsets
There’s more to emergency communications than a walkie talkie. We evaluate the criteria that responders look for when choosing the appropriate handsets, and the challenge of deploying a rich media experience in emergency situations.
2 October 2008 | Interview
Refining the elusive definitions of identity in the networked world
Jim Harper, Information Policy Studies Director of the US based research foundation The Cato Institute argues that a diverse identification system is beneficial for both organisations and individuals whose identities are kept.
1 October 2008 | Deals
Motorola acquires AirDefense
Motorola has completed its total acquisition of wireless LAN security provider AirDefense.
1 October 2008 | Feature
Is technology the magic bullet for airport security?
Airports are a laboratory for some of the most advanced security solutions. From scanners to RFID tracking and ccTv - we find out what are the latest solutions deployed at airports.
25 September 2008 | News
Payment card security standard revamped
The next version of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is due to be released on October 1.
25 September 2008 | Research
CCTV helps shorten investigation time
A universal IP-based CCTV ‘player’ will be able to significantly reduce investigation time and make it easier for the police to view footage, research finds.
22 August 2008 | News
Thumb drives not big security concern
While not seeing thumb drive comprise that often, Bryan Sartin says partial insider such as vendors and contractors pose real danger to organisations’ networks.
14 August 2008 | Feature
Surveillance on steroids: supercharge your CCTV with software
Can you teach an old dog new tricks? You can with IP-based CCTV! We look at how the latest surveillance software radically extends the ability to screen for unusual behaviour, detect unattended baggage and monitor access, among other capabilities.
6 August 2008 | Research
New threat found in VoIP
VoIP streams are encrypted to prevent eavesdropping. However, a team from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, US, has shown that simply measuring the size of packets without decoding them can identify whole words and phrases with a high rate of accuracy.
24 June 2008 | Feature
Taking a planned approach to data centre fire prevention
As denser, hotter data centres become the norm, a structured fire prevention plan will save time and money.
Bahrain’s Geographic Security System The GIS-based national
The GIS-based national security implementation which is the first of its kind in the ...
Earthquakes in Asia: Whole Lotta Shakin’
With the world entering a new cycle of vicious earthquakes, businesses in Asia need to ...
Cargo security at the world's busiest airport
What does it take to run security at an airport located at one of the ...
Preview IFSEC 2009
IFSEC, the world’s largest annual security event, returns in 2009 to the NEC Birmingham ...