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  • Video on beyond line-of-sight high-bandwidth connection possible

    Boeing demonstrates that transmitting video on beyond line-of-sight high-bandwidth connection is possible

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  • U.K. Home Office lists early ID vendors

    nCipher will be paid about £1.3 million for a contract to provide “public key infrastructure and security related work”; 3M SP&SL will receive about £700,000 plus a fee for each card

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  • Economic slowdown notwithstanding, new startups are optimistic

    Recession or no, Wayne Crosby of Mixin Capital says it is a good time to launch a startup; “I think if you’re an entrepreneur,” he said, “you’re always an entrepreneur, regardless of what the economy is doing”

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  • Questions raised about private inspections of food companies

    What the mortgage meltdown did to the financial services sector, the recent salmonella outbreak has done to to food industry: critics charge that both cases exposed the inherent weaknesses of industries regulating and inspecting themselves

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  • Aussie students develop new way to visualize fingerprints left on paper

    Two University of Technology, Sydney students develop a method which relies on the application of heat to the sample, with the fingerprint development accomplished in a matter of seconds

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  • Large defense contractors look for cyber-security business

    Cyber attacks on U.S. government networks and private companies have grown exponentially; the result is a vast increase in the attention paid to, and money spent on, cyber security; the biggest U.S. military contractors are counting on winning billions of dollars in work to protect the U.S. federal government against cyber attacks

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  • Air France begins trial of biometric boarding cards

    Air France begins trials with biometric cards as a replacement for boarding passes; the RFID-equipped cards store the passenger’s fingerprints and may be re-used up to 500 times

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  • Critic: U.K. fraud strategy "more worthy of Uzbekistan"

    Business fraud costs Britain £14 billion a year; the U.K. government today launched its National Fraud Strategy, but a Cambridge professor harshly criticizes the initiative

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  • Leading browsers easily felled at hacker contest

    Students at a hacker convention easily breach the protections built into Safari, IE 8, and Firefox; contestants do so in front of appreciative spectators and in a matter of hours

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  • CSC to help combat cyber warfare

    Cyberattacks pose a major threat to the welfare and security of developing countries; developing protection against that threat offers business opportunities

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  • IDO Security shoes-on inspection device adopted by several airports

    Taking your shoes off for airport security checks is a hassle; a shoes-on inspection devise is gaining popularity

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  • U.K. government flags ID cost increase

    The U.K. government says that passports will account for a smaller proportion of the cost of the national identity scheme’s overall cost than previously stated; introducing and producing passports containing fingerprints will cost about 70 percent of the £4.785 million budget for the National Identity Scheme for U.K. nationals

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  • European Commission calls for single EU patent

    EC says that the absence of a single Europe-wide patent law is hindering the growth of technology companies in the European Union

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  • Yoran: Better metrics needed for security

    Amit Yoran says that the security industry is awash in bad data, and that companies that attempt to use the metrics could take the wrong actions

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  • Iris recognition on-the-move tested at Schiphol Airport

    Sarnoff Corporation promises to make it faster and easier to verify users through iris scanning technology; Schiphol Airport want to know more about it

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  • Migrant work permits still scarce in Chicago since protections expanded
  • Homeland Security to double seasonal worker visas for '24
  • FEMA cuts disaster aid ahead of shutdown
  • Training program to provide students with cybersecurity and cyber intelligence career opportunities
  • General Dynamics wins $712M DHS IT recompete
  • Plan to Build Chinese Plant Divides Michigan Town Residents
  • Tucson Firearms Smuggler Sentenced to 60 Months for Conspiring to Smuggle Firearms into Mexico
  • FBI Albany and Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office Announce $10,000 FBI Reward for Information Related to the Tampering of a Rail Line in Corinth
  • Israel and US government agencies announced the BIRD Cyber Program, an investment of roughly $4M in projects to enhance the cyber resilience of critical infrastructure
  • Aimed at Protests, Surveillance Contractor’s New Owners Expand Spy Tech Portfolio
  • Nuclear reactor restarts, but Japan’s energy policy in flux
  • Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery
  • Kansas getting $500K in law enforcement grants
  • Bill widens Sacramento police, sheriff’s contract security opportunities
  • DHS awards $97 million in port security grants
  • DHS awarding $1.3 billion in 2012 preparedness grants
  • Cellphone firms share location data with law enforcement, not users
  • Residents of Murrieta, California, will have to subscribe for emergency services
  • Ohio’s Homeland Security funding drops sharply
  • Ports of L.A., Long Beach get Homeland Security grants
  • Homeland security gets involved with Indiana water conservation
  • LAPD embraces “predictive policing”
  • New GPS rival is hack-proof
  • German internal security service head quits over botched investigation
  • Americans favor Obama to defend against space aliens: poll
  • U.S. Coast Guard creates “protest-free zone” in Alaska oil drilling zone
  • Congress passes measure to enhance Israel security ties
  • Wickr enables encrypted, self-destructing iPhone messages
  • NASA explains Why clocks got an extra second on 30 June
  • Cybercrime disclosures rare despite new SEC rule
  • First nuclear reactor to go back online since Japan disaster met with protests
  • Israeli security fence architect: Why the barrier had to be built
  • DHS allocates nearly $10 million to Jewish nonprofits
  • Turkey deploys troops, tanks to Syrian border
  • Israel fears terror attacks on Syrian border
  • Ontario’s emergency response protocols under review after Elliot Lake disaster
  • Colorado wildfires to raise insurance rates in future years
  • Colorado fires threaten IT businesses
  • Improve your disaster recovery preparedness for hurricane season
  • London 2012 business continuity plans must include protecting information from new risks

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  • First 10 Months of 2023 See Record 25 Billion-Dollar Disasters

    NOAA confirmed another billion-dollar disaster in October, bringing the total to a record 25 disasters in the first 10 months — the largest number of disasters for any year since NOAA has kept track of these types of events. The Mississippi River’s water level dropped to historic lows along parts of the river.

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