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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.
Interpol rebuffs calls for internet police
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15 July 2009 | News
British army officer loses Blackberry in China
A senior Army officer lost his BlackBerry mobile phone while on holiday in China, sparking a security alert back in the UK.
2 July 2009 | News
Saudi Arabia to secure border with high-tech fencing
Saudi Arabia has hatched plans to erect a high-tech security fence around 9000 kilometers of the Kingdom’s border.
2 July 2009 | News
UK launches cybersecurity agency
One month after the United States government announced that it was to appoint a ‘cyber czar’, the United Kingdom is following suit with the formation of a cybersecurity agency.
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.
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
20 May 2009 | News
MI5 'overstretched' before 2005 bombings
Security services lacked the resources to carry out extra checks on the man who would go on to lead the 2005 suicide bombings of London’s transport system, an official report said Tuesday (19 May 2009).
20 May 2009 | News
UN urges nations to invest in disaster management
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged nations across the globe to invest in disaster management to minimise losses from natural disasters, while stressing that the Arab states must take the issue more seriously.
6 May 2009 | News
Hacker infiltrates Obama's Twitter account
A hacker has claimed to have broken into the internal administration system of the popular social networking site Twitter, giving him access to the accounts of millions of users - including Barack Obama and Britney Spears.
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
Botnet infects computers worldwide
One of the largest botnets ever to be discovered has infected 1.9 million computers around the world, including corporate and government machines, according to a security firm.
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
Filipino sailors banned from crossing Gulf of Eden
The move to protect seafarers from pirate infested waters off the Somali coast draws criticism
9 April 2009 | News
CCTV effectiveness system unveiled
A new system to improve the effectiveness of CCTV, known as a gaze-tracking camera system, has been developed at the Gebze Institute of Technology in Turkey.
2 April 2009 | News
CCTV ramped up for G20 in London
With security fears rising in the build-up to the G20 summit on Thursday, London’s Metropolitan Police have been given access to more than 3,000 CCTV cameras around London.
2 April 2009 | News
British police show two faces to G20 protesters
The contrasting faces of British policing were on display yesterday as the London Metropolitan Police (Met) called in support from 30 forces across the country to create a 5000-strong team of officers for at least six diverse demonstrations in the City of London and Trafalgar Square.
25 March 2009 | News
UK: chemical or nuclear terrorist threat realistic
The British government has warned that the threat of a terrorist attack on the UK involving chemical or nuclear weapons is now more realistic.
25 March 2009 | News
EU wants CCTV to monitor police brutality
The European Council has recommended that Portugal monitors its police officers by using video-surveillance cameras inside stations following us complaints of police brutality against detainees.
25 March 2009 | News
UK unveils new counter-terror strategy
Thousands of workers are getting terror training as part of the strategy aimed at tackling immediate terrorist threats and the causes of extremism.
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.
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).
17 March 2009 | News
London takes partnership approach to 2012 Olympics security
London is adopting a “partnership approach” to security in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, engaging local businesses and security professionals through the counter-terrorism initiative ‘Project Griffin’.
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.
10 March 2009 | News
UK’s new security body to weigh financial crisis
Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown has appointed a new security committee whose first mission is to assess the security implications of the global financial crisis.
3 March 2009 | News
The UK - a database state?
Senior government officials in the UK have voiced their concern that their country is becoming a “database state”.
3 March 2009 | Feature
How to create a culture of continuity
Abdulrahman Al-Onaizan, Head of Business Continuity Management at Arab National Bank, explains how his organisation succeeded in establishing award-winning BCM practices.
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
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 | News
Turkish airliner crashes in Amsterdam
A Turkish Airlines plane crashed while trying to land at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Wednesday, killing nine people and injuring scores.
20 February 2009 | News
London Underground police issued with new radios
Police working on London’s Underground have been issued with Sepura Tetra radios for the first time, enabling the British Transport Police to communicate anywhere on the sprawling subterranean rail network.
19 February 2009 | News
CCTV demand in the Middle East unaffected by crisis
The financial crisis may be threatening to reverse the property boom in the Middle East, but it has yet to dampen demand for CCTV in the region.
2 February 2009 | News
The TETRA World Congress returns to Europe
The international TETRA community will meet in Munich for the TETRA World Congress 26th – 29th May.
2 February 2009 | News
IFSEC 2009 Preview
Following IFSEC’s 35th anniversary in 2008 which attracted 30,257 attendees from 125 countries, 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.
23 January 2009 | News
UK police forces upgrade Sepura TETRA radios
Leading police forces in the United Kingdom (UK) has signed contracts with Sepura to upgrade and refresh their first generation TETRA radios to meet increasing operational demands. Advances in GPS capability enable police forces to deploy resources quickly and accurately thus increasing efficiency and officer safety.
21 January 2009 | Deals
Sepura for Russia's roadside assistance
LAT, Russia’s roadside assistance for motorists, has chosen Sepura TETRA radios for its communications in the St Petersburg region.
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.
8 January 2009 | News
Economic crisis a security threat, says UK top spy
The current global economic crisis may lead to a growth in terrorism, says Britain’s security service chief.
2 January 2009 | News
CCTV vital tool in helping police
One of Europe’s largest CCTV networks helped police detained nearly 800 people over the past year after they were captured on film committing a crime.
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.
18 December 2008 | News
South African airport to install TETRA network
Airport Company South Africa (ACSA) has awarded a contract for the installation of a Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) network at the Cape Town International Airport, which it manages.
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.
5 December 2008 | News
Germany awards two Public Safety contracts to Sepura
German states of Niedersachsen and Bremen are to have Sepura supply over 8000 TETRA radios. These contracts were won in partnership with SelectricGmbH, Sepura’s public safety distribution partner in Germany.
3 December 2008 | News
Israel implements car licence plate recognition system
A Licence Plate Recognition system, also known as ‘SeeCar’ has been installed in more than 20 municipal parking lots in Tel Aviv, Israel, as the automated solution for vehicle access control.
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.
3 November 2008 | Interview
Protecting the economic base of society
Ilan Mizrahi, former Chairman of Israel’s National Security Council and Deputy Director of Mossad, argues that private organisations are targets of terrorists and explains how they should protect themselves.
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
9 October 2008 | News
USB stick containing massive prisoner data lost
Another data loss by UK’s public sector, and the data is not encrypted this time round
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 | 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.
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.
Bahrain’s Geographic Security System The GIS-based national
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Cargo security at the world's busiest airport
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Preview IFSEC 2009
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