Category archives for: Tech

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 [...]

Biometrics: $4 billion market for private industry in airport security.

The U.S. Government agency that manages airport security shifts its strategic emphasis from stopping weapons to finding people. It’s a potential $4 billion market for private industry, based on what the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, currently spends on aviation security. “Businesses that are good at data analysis, behavior-pattern recognition, big data handling, data-visualization — [...]

Mexican police in Nuevo León/Monterrey using high tech against crime

In Mexico, 1500 new police officers are reinforcing the fight against crime in the state of Nuevo Leon. The police are using the latest military technology, as reported by the Federal Ministry of Public Security SSPF to international news agency Prensa Latina PL. According to PL reports , the Federal agents were endowed with these resources to gain [...]

Is HUMINT going to be partly replaced by INSECTINT? Sounds unrealistic, but..

Based on those of real-life insects, tiny aerial vehicles are being developed with innovative flapping wings. The devices are incorporating micro-cameras. These revolutionary insect-size vehicles will be suitable for many different purposes ranging from helping in emergency situations considered too dangerous for people to enter, spionage or to covert military surveillance missions. Is Human Intelligence [...]

New York security: Surveillance cameras installed on hundreds of buses.

New York.- Metropolitan Transportation Authority MTA bus drivers say that due to the latest assault on one of their own colleagues just three weeks ago, they’re now satisfied knowing that the MTA is installing surveillance cameras on hundreds more buses in New York. “The surveillance cameras program will keep us safe,” commented Willie Rivera, Brooklyn’s [...]

Audio sensors will help Hartford to reduce crime, by detecting gunshots.

As in many other cities in the U.S. like in Detroit or Saginaw, the city authorities of Hartford (Connecticut) are planning to install audio sensors in high-crime neighborhoods to detect gunshots and determine location. The City´s Mayor Pedro Segarra announced yesterday the implementation of the ShotSpotter program. The city will spend $150,000 on the sensors, [...]

U.S. Cyber Army is a fact, being fully operative in late 2012.

The U.S. government is spending about $500 million on “cyber technologies” to fight back. A portion of this is set aside for a virtual firing range of sorts to test out what they develop. This would also allow military personnel to simulate attacks in order to train security personnel to be ready for when an [...]

Homeland Security developing cyber system similar to Tom Cruise´s film “Minority Report”.

Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST), a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) programme designed to spot people who are intending to commit a terrorist act, has in the past few months completed its first round of field tests at an undisclosed location in the northeast, the online magazine Nature has learned. Like a lie detector, [...]

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