> TODAY'S SUMMARY (1 articles)
Flock, a company known for its license plate readers, is facing significant challenges as multiple cities terminate contracts due to privacy concerns. In response to the loss of customers, Flock is implementing a voluntary severance program for employees. This trend highlights the increasing scrutiny and regulatory pressure on surveillance technologies, particularly in urban areas. Organizations in the surveillance sector may need to adapt to the growing demand for privacy and data protection. The situation underscores the ongoing tension between technological innovation and civil liberties.
|
// AI-powered summary generated at 04:00
Users of the Apple Mac have been warned to avoid a game called Lose/Lose which appears to include trojan programme code that deliberately deletes files on the users' hard drive.
Cisco, EMC - the parent company to RSA Security - and VMware have formed the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, a collaboration designed to boost the adoption of virtualisation in the cloud.
Cellular specialist Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has unveiled a memory card for Android mobile phones that is claimed to make applications running on the host Android-compliant handset ultra-secure.
Malware authors are targeting those who missed the initial sign up for Google Wave, according to Symantec.
IT security vendor Symantec has uncovered a trojan that uses the Facebook social networking portal to communicate with a command and control (C&C) server
M86, the web and messaging security products vendor, has acquired business internet security specialist Finjan for an undisclosed sum of money. The move boosts M86's payroll to a shade more than 300 staff.
The Chip & PIN system pioneered by French banks in the 1980s - and rolled out across the UK and Europe in recent years - is to be extended to payment cards in Australia, Visa's operation there has announced.
The US has officially opened a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity in Arlington, Virginia.
Windows 7 owners are having problems installing their new operating system, especially over Vista, according to comments on Microsoft's support site.
The rapid rise in the number of swine flu cases - up by more than 50% in the UK in recent weeks and with similar infection rises in North America - has got some IT experts worried, with Gartner Group and the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) both expressing concern over the internet's `last...
Tipping Point unveiled its latest intrusion prevention system this week, featuring an updated software / hardware combo that the company said is better at handling many tasks at once.
The director of the FBI and the man charged with protecting the US from cyberthreats, Rober Mueller, has given up online banking after a phishing scare.
The ability of the latest BlackBerry series of mobile phones to create a secondary remote eavesdropping voice stream has reached the headlines again, with the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issuing a warning about a new application called PhoneSnoop.
Approximately 10% of schools are deploying biometric technologies, according to Alasdair Darroch, director of Biostore
Annual research from Lloyds TSB has revealed that 76% of adults are currently worried about identity theft and 39% feel more at risk now than they did six months ago, with the recession playing a major contributing factor.
Reports are coming in that Zurich Insurance has lost the details of 51 000 UK customers after an unencrypted data tape went missing in South Africa.
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has turned up the revelation that there were 356 data loss incidents reported in the 11 months to September of this year. The figures compare to 190 data loss incidents in the period October 2007 to November 2008.
Reports are coming in that the Guardian Jobs website has been compromised by hackers, and that as many as half a million users of the portal have had their personal details compromised.
Information security: Breaches, walls, charges, tools, and deals.
A US court has sentenced a man to three years in jail for selling more than $1m worth of pirated software on eBay.