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More CCTV cameras are coming in the U.S. after Boston Terror.

A recent poll showed that only 40% of Americans supported more cameras in the name of public safety – and only 12% wanted fewer cameras. And yet, more cameras are coming in the United States. Police officers in Denver, Phoenix, Chicago and other cities are relying more on surveillance video to help fight crime. READ [...]

Calculating Defense cuts: Lockheed announced $825 million in sales reduction in 2013.

  Lockheed Martin said to Financial Times that the US government’s spending cuts would reduce its sales for the year by $825m, as it became one of the first big military contractors to put a figure on the impact of the across-the-board reductions. READ WHOLE ARTICLE IN FT

Helicopter equipped w/FLIR thermal equipment monitored 2nd suspect during standoff in Boston.

Thermal-imaging devices have been used to watch the second suspect in this week’s Boston Marathon bombings as he was holed up in his last hiding place, the boat. Authorities said a helicopter equipped with a thermal imager (FLIR — a forward-looking infrared device —) spotted the heat signature of a person inside a tarp-covered boat, sitting [...]

Israeli RQ-450 drones used in Brazil to secure next football Confederations Cup.

FIFA is getting nervous with the status quo of violence in Rio and Sao Paulo. Brazil also worries, and therefore the government started to put into place a task of security measures. The first one is the use of drones to secure the next Confederations Cup in June, where all the champions of all continents [...]

Security experts advise Java software due to dangerous security flaw.

Computer users are being advised by security experts to disable Oracle Corp.’s widely used Java software after a security flaw was discovered that they say hackers are exploiting to attack computers. “Java is a mess. It’s not secure,” said Jaime Blasco, Labs Manager with AlienVault Labs. “You have to disable it.” Java, which is on [...]

US Homeland Security hacking into gaming consoles

The Americas Post - Suddenly on-line games like Modern Warfare take on a whole new meaning

Forensic experts report that pedophiles are increasingly using gaming systems to prey upon children, while terrorists are now utilizing them for online communication. With this in mind, on April 5 the United States Naval Supply Systems Command contracted a San Francisco company called Obscure Technologies for the research and development of “hardware and software tools that can be used for extracting [...]

Hitachi camera can scan 35 million “biometric” faces per second and find any target.

New Big Brother story. A new CCTV camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of archived camera footage instantly, and find any face which has ever walked past it. The camera ‘processes’ faces as it records, so that all faces which pass in front of it are recorded and stored instantly as a [...]

Cuban foreign minister calls for US relations

Rodriguez wants to be friends with the U.S.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said Monday he wants to re-establish relations with the United States, with a focus on humanitarian and other issues. “The Cuban government reiterates its willingness and interest to move toward the normalization of relations with the United States,” Rodriguez said. “Today I reiterate the proposal of beginning a dialogue aimed [...]

Sensor Urban Environments can prevent and fight robberies, terrorism attacks, natural catastrophes and other emergencies.

This document was published by the criminology scientists Charalampos Doulaverakis, Nikolaos Konstantinou, Thomas Knape, Ioannis Kompatsiaris and John Soldatos. Doulaverakis was the keynote speaker at the EISIC 2011 SecuAll scientists are related to three institutions: a)  Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas  in Thessaloniki, Greece  b) the Autonomic and Grid Computing [...]

Athens Cyber Security Conference, Dr. Thuraisingham´s “Data Mining for Security”.

On September 12th, and during the first day of the conference EISIC 2011 “European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference, on Counterterrorism and Criminology,” the first keynote speech was given by the expert Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Cyber ​​Security (BT) (*). The title of his presentation was “Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications”. Among [...]

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