Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans REMOTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS for mobile phones are supposed to make it easy for companies to wipe a device clean if it gets lost or stolen. But a vulnerability discovered in a popular remote management system used by thousands of businesses to…
Morning Security Brief: Wrongful Convictions, Cyberattacks at NATO summit, Prison Riot Leaves One Dead, and More
►More than 2,000 people have been freed from prison since 1989 after being wrongly convicted. The University of Michigan Law School and Northwestern University have compiled the largest database of wrongful convictions in an effort … View full post on National Cyber Security
Morning Security Brief: No Credible NATO Threats, Testing Emergency Vaccines on Children, U.S. Not Safe from Stuxnet, and More
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Morning Security Brief: Russia Foils Terrorist Attack, Cruise Line Biothreat Scare, Cybersecurity Goes Offensive, and More
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Morning Security Brief: License Plate Scanners, Smartphone Risk Picture, Firearm Requests Up, and More
►Police in Tennessee are embracing license plate scanning technology. It’s led them directly to vehicles used in crimes and in their first year of use, Memphis police wrote almost twice as many citations for revoked and suspended licenses. It was also used to find a suspect in the murder of…
Morning Security Brief: Troops in Afghanistan, Taser Safety, EEOC Guidance on Screening for Criminal Records, and More
►By the end of this summer, 23,000 U.S. troops will withdraw from Afghanistan. And by 2014, security will be transferred completely to the Afghan government, President Barack Obama said in an address Tuesday night from Kabul. … View full post on National Cyber Security
IN BRIEF
UNLV Police investigating credit card fraud Two open cases of credit card fraud are currently being investigated by UNLV Police Services. Over winter break, UNLV police were notified that a credit card was illegally being used to put money onto five different RebelCards. The owner of the credit card reported…
Morning Security Brief: Shooting at the White House, Alarm Fatigue, and the 2012 Olympics
11/16/2011 – ?U.S. Secret Service officials have confirmed that at least two bullets were fired at the White House on Friday night. One bullet hit the White House but was stopped by ballistic glass. Another was found on the White House grounds. The police responded to a call of…
Morning Security Brief: Securing Haj from Disease, Employee Credit Checks, Counterfeit Military Parts, and More
11/09/2011 – ►The Saudi health minister on Wednesday announced that precautions taken before Haj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, and the largest pilgrimage in the world, helped the event take place with no cases of infectious disease or cases requiring quarantine. In addition to screening foreign pilgrims upon entering the country,…
Morning Security Brief: Bank Fraud, Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement, Cyber Espionage, and More
10/05/2011 – ►Fraud in the United States accounted for almost half of such losses globally. While banks in Europe and Asia have introduced stricter security policies and practices to protect consumers, the U.S. still relies on “older infrastructure.” Banks in Europe and elsewhere have moved to deploy “chip-and-pin” card…
