• Developing biofuel for commercial aircraft

    The airline industry seeks to develop non-food biofuel which will offer aircraft cheaper fuel without affecting global food supplies

  • Banks rely on spyware to detect rogue traders, false rumors

    Growing worries about the financial consequences of rogue traders’ unauthorized activity and false rumors spread in order to manipulate stock price, more and more companies – especially in the financial sector – are installing spyware to monitor their employees’ every move and utterance

  • WorkLight says RSA chief's observations ring true

    RSA boss Art Coviello offers his insights on Web security, saying that hackers are developing plans to attack healthcare providers as their revenue streams from the financial services sector start to dry up; Coveillo also says that biometric technology is not a solution for IT security – at least so far

  • DHS awards $844 million to secure U.S. critical infrastructure

    DHS awards millions to bolster security fo rail, truck, and bus transportation; department says awards are strictly risk-based

  • An HSDW conversation with John Stroia, vice president, Government Security and Monitoring Solutions, Diebold

    Diebold has been adding “layers of protection” to its customers since 1859; Diebold provides one-stop shopping for technology-based electronic systems, software, and services, and the company is active in all four major security markets: financial; commercial (retail); enterprise (large corporations); and government

  • Tyco sells M/A-COM for $425 million

    Tyco sells its radio frequency components and subsystem business to Cobham Defense Electronic Systems

  • Australian budget tackles environment concerns

    New government budget show government’s intent to tackle Australia’s growing water problems; critics charge that the government has not gone far enough to save the Murray-Darling Basin; the huge river system is drying up under the pressure of Australia’s epic drought and excessive water extraction for irrigation

  • NATO to help Estonia’s cyber defense

    Last year Estonia became the first nation to suffer a systematic, sustained cyber attack that brought the Baltic nation’s infrastructure to halt; Russian nationalists, and probably agencies of the Russian government, were implicated in the attack; NATO wants to help

  • China lacks earthquake early-warning system

    Earthquake alerts are still in their infancy and few nations deploy them; China is one of the many countries which is yet to do so; such systems offer but a few seconds warning of a coming quake, but these few seconds may be enough to save many from death or injury

  • Worries about damage to Chinese dam

    Damage to a large Chinese dam near the epicenter of Monday’s earthquake raises worries about more troubles to come in the devastated region

  • The economics of cyber - and infrastructure -- security

    New book explores the economics of protecting cyberspace; the book “links our nation’s critical infrastructures across public and private institutions in sectors ranging from food and agriculture, water supply and public health, to energy, transportation and financial services,” says one of the authors

  • San Francisco aggressively to promote use of electric vehicles

    The City on the Bay to help build charging infrastructure throughout the city and the suburbs to make use of electrical vehicles viable

  • Emergence of violent Islamist groups in U.S. aided by Internet

    The Internet helps fuel – and channel – Islamic extremism in the United States; a congressional report says that the U.S. government has “no cohesive and comprehensive outreach and communications strategy in place to confront this thread.”

  • Nuclear proliferation looms, II

    The growing interest in nuclear power generation will lead to more countries acquiring capabilities which can be converted to military use on a short notice; the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation is exacerbated by the fact the uranium producing countries such as Namibia, South Africa, Argentina, and Brazil, Canada, and Australia are seeking to cash in on the future growth in nuclear power generation by exporting uranium-enrichment technologies to those willing to pay

  • Hacker posts data of six million Chileans

    The personal information of one-third of the Chilean population posted on the Web, including information on the prime minister’s two daughters