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Modern Police Service is a force to be reckoned with | Hits:2 |
The UK Government's reform programme published in the White Paper: 'Building Communities, Beating Crime,' will build on highly successful neighbourhood policing initiatives and provide much needed reassurance to our communities... | 04/02/2009 |
90% of remote access VPN systems have exploitable vulnerabilities | Hits:2 |
Over a three-year period of testing VPNs, NTA Monitor has discovered that 90% of remote access VPN systems have exploitable vulnerabilities. The tests were mainly carried out for large organisations, including financial institutions that... | 03/31/2009 |
3G dream a security nightmare | Hits:2 |
Smart mobile technology is rapidly gaining in popularity and hackers and crackers are among its biggest fans! Very few consumers know about the vulnerabilities of 3G technology, and only now is the industry waking up... | 03/31/2009 |
Tracker covert transmitter helps Metropolitan Police crackdown on plant theft | Hits:2 |
Tracker is playing a key role in the Metropolitan Police's new National Plant Intelligence Unit (NPIU), which aims to crackdown on plant theft by helping locate and recover stolen plant equipment as efficiently and cost effectively... | 03/28/2009 |
20 percent of leading security firms are unlikely to survive | Hits:1 |
According to the latest report into the UK Security market from industry analysts Plimsoll, rates 160 of the UK's leading 908 Security companies as being in financial Danger. Amid calls for bail-outs and emergency measures,... | 03/28/2009 |
Composite firedoors offer value for money with potential savings over timber firedoors | Hits:2 |
Fire doors save lives and protect property and as such it is vital that they are specified, manufactured, installed and checked correctly. BM TRADA Q-Mark manufacturing and installation accreditation scheme gives full peace of mind... | 03/26/2009 |
How to fight the Conficker worm | Hits:2 |
There has been a resurgence in the Conficker worm (also known as Downadup) that we first saw in November. This is probably due to the malware authors adding some new propagation methods such as spreading via USB flash... | 03/26/2009 |
British biometric ID card system vulnerable to cloning | Hits:2 |
TSSI has branded the Government proposal by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to ask companies such as the Post Office to collect biometric data as irresponsible. It said that such a system that allowed private companies to gain ownership of... | 03/24/2009 |
Emerging eCrime Infrastructure Boosts Phishing Attacks As Phishers Target Smaller Financial Services | Hits:2 |
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has reported that phishers are commanding ever larger arrays of co-opted Internet infrastructure and using it to take aim at smaller financial institutions. Overall, the survey and... | 03/21/2009 |
NTA Monitor launches wireless infrastructure testing service | Hits:4 |
Many organisations deploy wireless technology without any form of security testing and potentially expose both confidential information and internal systems to attack. The problem to date has been that by their very nature,... | 03/21/2009 |
Password Management receives vote of no confidence from IT Managers | Hits:2 |
Passwords are the most basic element of any IT security system, yet new research findings revealed show that many organisations are still tripping up at this first security hurdle. According to new research into password management... | 03/20/2009 |
PC Guardian gains 4-star rating for its notebook security, desktop security and drive access control | Hits:3 |
Notebook theft is a growing problem. Although recent figures for the UK are unavailable, the 2004 CSI/FBI PC crime and security survey in the US found that notebook theft is the second most prevalent crime, after virus-related problems... | 03/20/2009 |
Poisoned Updates May be the Next Bad Apple in the Spyware Basket | Hits:1 |
A new spyware threat has been identified: update poisoning. By adding entries directly into the hosts file, this spyware breaks through firewalls and other anti-virus protection and poisons update functions by pointing notable DNS ... | 03/18/2009 |
Crime down by seven per cent | Hits:1 |
Crime in England and Wales fell by seven per cent in the past year, according to the British Crime Survey (BCS). Police recorded crime, also published today for the year to 31 March 2005, is also down 6 per cent. Statistics... | 03/18/2009 |
Transus Intermodal trucking saves $500,000 guard costs with Milestone IP video surveillance | Hits:4 |
Transus Intermodal has saved 500,000 (the cost of round-the-clock guards) and improved their control over security issues significantly, thanks to the Milestone IP video surveillance solution. With its remote access capabilities and better... | 03/18/2009 |
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