Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans In the present day of computers, electronically-enabled hand-held devices have entered the lives of a large number of people across the world, and certainly in India. Even walking on the roads now requires more care because people are not looking at…
New Technology Brings More Accuracy to Processing Crime Scenes
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans It’s an item every police department would want on its wish list. The Leica P-20 3-D Laser Scanner is a $147,000 machine. It’s created to scan its surroundings and form a 3-D image based on the data it collected. “What we…
WORD TO THE WISE: New credit card technology to help prevent fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans You have probably heard by now about the new technology at the checkout counter. Due to a large increase in counterfeit card fraud and continuing large-scale data breaches, the shift to use EMV, which stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa, by…
EMV technology combats identity theft
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The times they are a-changin.’ Although Bob Dylan’s famous folk song wasn’t about the way we’ll be using our credit cards in 2015, it certainly could have been. Because, as of Oct. 1, what happens when we slide our credit cards into…
New technology for credit cards; New opportunity for Scam artists
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans October 1st was the deadline for retailers and credit card issuing companies to switch over to using new EMV, or Euro-pay Mastercard Visa, credit cards, which contain a computer chip along with a black strip. The way it works is the…
The Xiaomi Mi 5 might be the first phone to implement Qualcomm’s 3D Fingerprint technology
Although Xiaomi has just recently unveiled the Mi 4c, a very powerful smartphone that goes for little over $200 in China, a lot of the company’s fans are already looking forward to the Xiaomi’s upcoming flagship, the often-rumored Xiaomi Mi 5. According to previous rumors, the smartphone will be one…
Councilman to hold press conference Wednesday on new crime-fighting technology being used in Detroit
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans 7 Action News is expecting to learn more Wednesday, September 23, about a form of crime-fighting technology Detroit police have been using for about a year now. The technology is called Shotspotter and it’s been credited with helping police in cities…
Crime-scene technology adapted for mosquitoes to predict Ross River Virus outbreak
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The suspects are bloodthirsty and remorseless, but no more so than the general population. The challenge for investigators is distinguishing from about 300 species of mosquito the dozen or so that present a present danger to humans. Cutting-edge technology developed for…
New chip technology fights credit-card fraud at retailers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans If you are like me, you have received a number of replacement credit cards in the past several months, even though your current card is nowhere near its expiration date. The driving force behind this is the growing amount of credit…
New wireless technology uses your body to transmit data
A new wireless communication technique uses human body to transmit magnetic signals San Diego researchers have developed a prototype of their new wireless communication technique that can transmit data through biological tissue outperforming the existing wireless technology. Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego, US have demonstrated a…
